Q-PEAK, INCORPORATED — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A tunable, solid-state blue laser which enables power-scaling for simultaneous high pulse
Q-PEAK, INCORPORATED — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $79,911
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- 2014.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2014-05-13 → 2014-11-14
Description
A tunable, solid-state blue laser which enables power-scaling for simultaneous high pulse energy and average power will be developed for nonacoustic imaging applications. A power-scalable pump laser at 1µm will be used to pump nonlinear optics processes which generate the required, tunable, narrow-band blue spectrum. The power scaling simplicity arises from straightforward MOPA architectures and avoiding any frequency conversion to the UV. Additionally, blue light generation comes from a nonlinear conversion design which avoids certain power extraction limitations from high power nonlinear parametric oscillators.