ADVALUE PHOTONICS INC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: In this proposal, we propose to demonstrate and build a near 2 micron widely tunable, narr

ADVALUE PHOTONICS INC — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Amount
$98,587
Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
NAICS
Place of performance
AZ
Period
2012-02-13 → 2012-08-13

Description

In this proposal, we propose to demonstrate and build a near 2 micron widely tunable, narrow linewidth, single frequency fiber laser by developing an innovative Ho-doped single mode fiber. Such near 2 micron fiber laser is needed for coherent lidar and interferometric fiber sensing. In Phase I, we will design and fabricate this new fiber, demonstrate fixed wavelength narrow linewidth single frequency fiber laser with linewidth of less than 3KHz, demonstrate wavelength tuning range of greater than 10nm and demonstrate 5GHz frequency modulation with no any mode-hoping. Successful demonstration of such a fiber laser will enable many new NASA and commercial applications.