TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A20-021
TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
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- Amount
- $111,437
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A20-021
- Solicitation
- 20.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TX
- Period
- 2020-06-01 → 2021-01-20
Description
TransWave Photonics proposes a photonic integration architecture for efficient coherent beam combining of quantum cascade arrays consisting of more than 10 elements to generate > 10 W continuous-wave output power with 90% combining efficiency at room temperature. The proposed beam combiner will produce diffraction-limited laser beam with at least one order of magnitude higher brightness than the state-of-the-art quantum cascade laser beam combiners. In addition, our integration platform allows for seamless integration of a monolithic modulator for high-speed laser intensity modulation.