N.P. PHOTONICS, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N221-063
N.P. PHOTONICS, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
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- Amount
- $240,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N221-063
- Solicitation
- 22.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- AZ
- Period
- 2022-08-08 → 2023-12-19
Description
There is high demand for low-nonlinearity rare-earth-doped fibers that can be used to develop kW-class high-energy narrow-linewidth lasers for many DOD applications. NP Photonics proposes to design and fabricate specialty optical fibers with significantly reduced nonlinearity compared to current commercial fibers. In this Phase I program, we will design and fabricate the specialty optical fibers and investigate their nonlinearity mitigation and output power scalability. Nonlinearity mitigated gain fibers meeting or exceeding the requirements of the Navy’s applications will be fabricated and characterized in Phase II and delivered to DoD’s laboratories for testing by the end of Phase II.