SBIR/STTR Research Award
Quantum Cascade Laser Manufacturing Cost Reduction
Award amount
$139,815Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- IRGLARE LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-06-13
- Contract end date
- 2019-12-10
- UEI
- ZDC9D8TZZV57
- Solicitation number
- 19.1
- Topic code
- N191-031
Research abstract
The development of a new standardized fabrication process of low-cost ridge-waveguide 4.6µm Quantum Cascade Lasers capable of producing multi-watt continuous wave optical power in a nearly Gaussian beam (M2<1.5) with efficiency exceeding 10%, i.e. with performance comparable to that for state-of-the-art buried heterostructure QCLs is proposed. The dramatic reduction in price/watt will benefit a very diverse set of critical DoD applications, including DIRCM, infrared beacons, , and free space optical communications.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Heteroepitaxy of Indium Phosphide-Based Quantum Cascade Lasers on Silicon Substrates
- Damage-Free High-Power Emission from Indium Phosphide-Based Solid-State Waveguides in the Long Wave Infrared
- Superconducting Thermal Spreader Enabled MWIR Band-IVb Quantum Cascade Laser with 65 W Average Output Power
- High Brightness Mid-IR Laser Illuminator
- Multi-Quantum Cascade Laser based sensors for high-speed characterization of flow parameters in hypersonic tunnels
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Quantum Cascade Laser Manufacturing Cost Reduction
- Quantum Cascade Laser Manufacturing Cost Reduction
Research funding history
35 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2024). Reported award amounts total $16,655,500. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration