ADVALUE PHOTONICS INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A17-104
ADVALUE PHOTONICS INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I SBIR feasibility signal
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- Amount
- $98,747
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A17-104
- Solicitation
- 2017.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- AZ
- Period
- 2017-09-18 → 2018-03-17
Description
Current state of the art tracking Illuminator lasers are insufficient for a wide variety of expected high energy laser weapon system engagements.A tracking Illuminator laser with variable pulse parameters is desired to achieve constant radiometric conditions in the return scattered light from a target to a tracking sensor. We propose to develop a fiber laser system in the 1.55 micron spectral band capable of generating greater than 50 to 300mJ pulse energy, 5 to 50ns pulse width, 500Hz to 5kHz repetition rate, beam quality M2<1.3, and coherence length <1cm . This proposed laser development is based upon our proprietary high-efficiency high-gain Er-doped glass fiber technology.