TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N211-022
TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
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- Amount
- $139,979
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N211-022
- Solicitation
- 21.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TX
- Period
- 2021-07-28 → 2022-02-01
Description
TransWave Photonics proposes to develop a high reliability, monolithic, low-production-cost quantum cascade laser photonic integrated circuit integrated with a large-area output aperture designed for robust, high-damage threshold, high-power emission. Leveraging our expertise in mid-infrared photonic integrated circuit design, we expect to demonstrate a new type of surface emitting quantum cascade devices capable of producing more than 20W power at wall-plug efficiency of more than 20%, monolithically integrated, via a low-loss waveguide, with a surface emitting outcoupler with dimensions no less than 1 mm x 10 µm.