TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase II: A17A-T006

TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC — STTR Phase II award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$1,149,894
Agency
Department of Defense · Army
Program / Phase
STTR · Phase II
Topic
A17A-T006
Solicitation
17.A
NAICS
Place of performance
TX
Period
2022-09-24 → 2024-09-23

Description

TransWave Photonics, LLC proposes to develop high-power mid-wave infrared (MWIR) beam combining photonic integrated circuits (PICs) by monolithically integrating MWIR gain chips and passive photonic elements using an InP-based material platform that can be grown without wafer bonding. Our PIC device consists of a MWIR quantum cascade laser gain section, a power amplifier array, a waveguide array, and an optical phased array. We expect that our device can produce >50 W average power at 4.6 μm center wavelength and a wavelength tuning range of 230 nm without any mechanical moving parts or free-spacing combining optics.