LASER OPERATIONS LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: Efficient electrically pumped eye-safe lasers for battlefield applications require high br
LASER OPERATIONS LLC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $728,088
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Solicitation
- 2009.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2011-09-26
Description
Efficient electrically pumped eye-safe lasers for battlefield applications require high brightness, spectrally stabilized fiber-coupled pump lasers emitting near 1500 nm. Existing 1500 nm pump lasers are spectrally unstabilized, have poor efficiency and brightness and require cooling. Using new diode quantum-well designs and high thermal and optical coupling approaches, we will demonstrate a new generation of pump modules which provide unprecedented power and brightness but operate at high ambient temperatures without cooling.