SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Dynamic Range Heterodyne Terahertz Imager
Award amount
$529,024Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- LONGWAVE PHOTONICS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2018-09-21
- Contract end date
- 2019-09-21
- UEI
- ND53H94AU844
- Solicitation number
- 17.A
- Topic code
- A17A-T007
Research abstract
The Tunable Active HEterodyne Terahertz Imager (TAHETI) system will use Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers (QCL) combined with a Schottky diode detector for ultra-high dynamic range heterodyne imaging. Distributed feedback (DFB) QCLs with milliwatt power levels are engineered to emit at slightly offset frequencies, and are used as local oscillator and illumination for imaging. The QCLs will be down converted to an IF band in a reference and a signal Schottky diode mixer. High-dynamic ranges of>90 dB are estimated for real-time image acquisition. Arrays of DFBs designed for different frequencies will allow tunability in the THz frequency range. This system will enable nondestructive, non-contact testing of materials that are transparent in the terahertz band, potentially revealing information that is complementary to other imaging modalities
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.
- High-Efficiency Terahertz Source
- Tunable Active HEterodyneHEterodyneTerahertz Imaging (TAHETI)
- Allosteric Drug Discovery using Quantum Cascade Laser based Anisotropic THz Microscope (QCL-ATM)
- Wideband THz Local Oscillator
- Laser Sources for Frequency Calibration of Far-Infrared Spectrometers
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
17 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2010–2023). Reported award amounts total $6,756,130. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services