TeraDiode, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N142-093
TeraDiode, Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,954
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N142-093
- Solicitation
- 2014.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2014-09-30 → 2015-11-29
Description
There is a compelling need for compact high brightness mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) lasers. Applications of such sources include spectroscopic detection of the fingerprint of molecular absorptions, illumination, electronic warfare (EW), and infrared countermeasure (IRCM) systems in response to increasingly sophisticated seeker technologies and increased threat ranges. Todays state-of-the-art high power quantum cascade laser (QCL) sources are single emitter devices. We propose, for the first time, to produce a 100-W-class QCL bar. These QCL bars can be stacked to obtain > 1 kW in a stack. Such a bar will be used in combination with TeraDiodes proprietary Wavelength Beam Combining (WBC) to produce a single, nearly diffraction-limited output beam at hundreds of watts to kilo-watts in output power.