N.P. PHOTONICS, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A17-104
N.P. PHOTONICS, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $150,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A17-104
- Solicitation
- 17.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- AZ
- Period
- 2017-06-12 → 2019-03-15
Description
NP Photonics proposes to design and develop a laser source capable of producing a high energy nanosecond laser with variable parameters and short coherent length by taking advantage of our laser technologies based on highly doped glasses. Tracking illuminator lasers (TILs) have a variety of applications in weapon system engagements including target detection, target identification, pose estimation 3D LIDAR and aim point tracking. A TIL with variable pulse parameters is desired to enable a wide dynamic range of these engagements. The proposed laser source has the advantage of high compactness and reliability. In this Phase I program, we will investigate the feasibility and study the risk to develop a TIL using our highly doped glass laser technologies. A fully functional TIL source will be developed and characterized in Phase II.