IRGLARE LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N231-018
IRGLARE LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $139,879
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N231-018
- Solicitation
- 23.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- FL
- Period
- 2023-07-12 → 2024-01-02
Description
Our team proposes the development of a very high-average-brightness quantum cascade laser system emitting at ~4.6µm to be employed in the next generation DIRCM systems and other critical infrared DoD applications. For many detectors and sensors, including those used in infrared heat-seeking missiles, an output signal modulated at MHz frequencies with a high duty cycle (QCW operation) is indistinguishable from a CW signal. Therefore, DIRCM systems can be based on QCW lasers without compromising any practical system functionalities. Transitioning to the QCW operation in the QCL design opens up a vast optimization parameter space for radically improving average QCL brightness, which will be leveraged in this program.