SBIR/STTR Research Award
Reliable 5W Continuous Wave Quantum Cascade Lasers with a Nearly Gaussian Circular Output Beam
Award amount
$124,901Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- IRGLARE LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2018-10-16
- Contract end date
- 2020-02-12
- UEI
- ZDC9D8TZZV57
- Solicitation number
- 18.2
- Topic code
- N182-113
Research abstract
In response to the NAVY SBIR solicitation N182-113, the IRGLARE team is pleased to propose the development of highly reliable 4.5µm Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs) delivering over 5W of continuous wave optical power in a nearly gaussian beam (M2 < 1.5) with a low ellipticity. The combination of the high optical power and long term reliability will be achieved by over a two-fold reduction in laser thermal resistance compared to that of traditional QCL designs and by keeping peak optical intensity at the output facet within its safe limits. The new very high performance devices will find immediate applications in numerous critical infrared DoD applications, including infrared countermeasures and free space optical communications.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- 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.
- Mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers with highly efficient heat extraction architecture
- Quantum Cascade Laser Manufacturing Cost Reduction
- Mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers with highly efficient heat extraction architecture
- Quantum Cascade Laser Thermal Impedance Improvement
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