nLight Photonics — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: nLight proposes to suppress the key remaining output power extraction limiter COMD failur

nLight Photonics — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$149,836
Agency
Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Solicitation
2012.2
NAICS
Place of performance
WA
Period
2012-11-01 → 2013-08-01

Description

nLight proposes to suppress the key remaining output power extraction limiter COMD failure mechanism by passivating the cleaved facet of laser diodes with high bandgap semiconductor layers that is epitaxially grown in an atomically conformal manner at low temperature and in ultra-high vacuum.