IRGLARE LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: N22A-T007

IRGLARE LLC — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$239,576
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
STTR · Phase I
Topic
N22A-T007
Solicitation
22.A
NAICS
Place of performance
FL
Period
2022-08-03 → 2023-11-10

Description

The development of heteroepitaxy growth and laser fabrication for the monolithic integration of InP-based quantum cascade laser (QCL) structures onto silicon substrates. Fully optimized QCLs-on-Si will deliver over 5W of CW power in a nearly diffraction limited beam (M2 < 1.5) with 25% wallplug efficiency. These devices will find immediate applications in directed infrared countermeasures, integrated platforms for man-portable or UAV-based chemical/biological sensing, environmental monitoring, out-of-band active (hyperspectral) imaging/illumination, and other infrared DoD applications.