TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: A17A-T006
TRANSWAVE PHOTONICS, LLC — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $145,326
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- A17A-T006
- Solicitation
- 2017.0
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TX
- Period
- 2017-07-13 → 2018-01-16
Description
TransWave Photonics, LLC in collaboration with Prof. Mikhail Belkin group at the University of Texas at Austin 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 laser gain sections within the same InGaAs/AlInAs/InP platform grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy. The proposed approach will enable power combining and 2-dimensional electronic beam steering of the outputs from multiple high-power buried heterostructure quantum cascade lasers on the same InP chip. In Phase 1 we will demonstrate the feasibility of the key elements in the proposed quantum-cascade-laser-based mid-wave infrared photonic integrated circuit.