LASER OPERATIONS LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: High brightness directed energy lasers based on combining beams generated by fiber lasers
LASER OPERATIONS LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,135
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- 2012.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2012-11-08 → 2013-08-05
Description
High brightness directed energy lasers based on combining beams generated by fiber lasers and amplifiers require fiber-coupled 976 nm diode laser pumps with spatial and spectral brightness that exceed current state-of-the-art. We will meet these requirements by adapting 1060 nm MOPA designs with which we have demonstrated operation at brightness approaching 1 GW/cm^2*sr, to 976 nm.