FORWARD PHOTONICS LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A16-080
FORWARD PHOTONICS LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,992
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A16-080
- Solicitation
- 2016.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2016-11-23 → 2018-08-04
Description
We propose to build the highest brightness direct diode laser ever constructed, a nearly diffraction limited laser subsystem at a power level of > 50 kW CW using wavelength beam combining (WBC). WBC is a technique which allows for the combination of many distinct diode elements in which the common output beam has nearly the same beam characteristics as that of a single element. Since wavelength beam combining is a truly scalable approach this will lead to scaling direct diode lasers to hundreds of kW with a nearly diffraction limited output beam.