TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase II: A17A-T006
TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC — STTR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $500,520
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase II
- Topic
- A17A-T006
- Solicitation
- 17.A
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TX
- Period
- 2018-09-28 → 2019-09-28
Description
TransWave Photonics, LLC proposes to develop mid-wave infrared photonic integrated circuits based on monolithic integration of passive low-loss waveguides, thermo-optically tunable photonic elements, and quantum cascade gain sections within the same InGaAs/AlInAs/InP platform. The proposed approach will enable power combining and 2-dimensinoal beam steering of the outputs from multiple high-power buried heterostructure quantum cascade lasers on the same InP chip. In Phase 2 we will demonstrate a prototype full monolithic mid-IR beam-steering microchip system based on the proposed QCL PICs operating near ?~4.6 µm. The microchip system will produce >10 W average power steerable over a wide range of angles, ±90° along lateral direction and ±10° along longitudinal direction, at scan rates over 1 kHz.