CORCORAN ENGINEERING, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: SOCOM173-001
CORCORAN ENGINEERING, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,940
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Special Operations Command
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- SOCOM173-001
- Solicitation
- 2017.3
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2018-03-12 → 2018-09-12
Description
The goal of this project is to develop a power-scalable laser source suitable for laser designation of targets.The main thrust will focus on power scaling of individual laser elements using passive coherent beam combination technology.Scaling the output power of a single laser element beyond a few 100 mW presents a significant challenge as phenomena such as catastrophic optical damage or heat dissipation typically limit the maximum power that a laser diode can generate.Use of passive coherent beam combination allows circumventing such limitations and scale the output power by simply adding more single elements, while maintaining a diffraction-limited beam quality and the simplicity of laser diodes.