LASER OPERATIONS LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: As part of an effort funded by HEL-JTO, we recently demonstrated advanced quantum well dio
LASER OPERATIONS LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $79,115
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- 2012.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2012-11-02 → 2013-04-28
Description
As part of an effort funded by HEL-JTO, we recently demonstrated advanced quantum well diode laser designs with enhanced confinement operating at 1500 nm that substantially advanced the state-of-the-art with regard to efficiency, high operating temperature and beam quality. Similar enhanced confinement designs will be implemented at 808 nm to greatly improve both electrical-to-optical efficiency and fiber-coupling efficiency. Moreover, by incorporating monolithic internal diffraction gratings in these lasers, linewidths and wavelength tolerances can be reduced by roughly a factor of 4 compared to standard pump diodes without incurring the cost and complication of external volume bragg grating stabilizers.