FREEDOM PHOTONICS LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A20-149
FREEDOM PHOTONICS LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $111,494
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A20-149
- Solicitation
- 20.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2020-10-14 → 2021-09-09
Description
Freedom Photonics proposes to develop and demonstrate a kW-class coherently combined tapered diode laser array. Our device design is based on the so-called tapered master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) laser concept and will utilize our existing high power, high efficiency GaAs diode laser pump epitaxial design. During Phase 1, two avenues toward coherent beam combination will be explored. By the end of Phase 2, we will demonstrate and deliver a kW-class coherently combined diode laser module; furthermore, we will show that our approach is directly scalable to even high power levels.