The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1,054,982.00 Firm Fixed Price contract to Freedom Photonics LLC, a small business located in Goleta, California. Through this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract, Freedom Photonics is developing a low-cost, widely tunable semiconductor laser for use in various light detection and ranging (LIDAR) applications and greenhouse gas sensing schemes. The contract is for the "Widely Tunable Semiconductor...
This is a firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Freedom Photonics LLC, a small business manufacturer of photonic components and subsystems based in Goleta, California. The $124,990.00 contract, issued under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, is for the development of a "Novel Chip-Scale Seed Source at 1645nm for Methane LIDARs". This represents a Phase I SBIR effort to advance...
This federal contract award from the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) to Freedom Photonics, LLC, a small business located in Goleta, California, is for the development of a 1651 nm widely tunable laser. The goal is to apply the same Lidar technique used for carbon dioxide detection to methane, which is a more potent greenhouse gas. The $117,506 fixed-price contract is designated as a total small business set-aside under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program. Freedom...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,099,715.00, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center to the small business prime contractor Freedom Photonics, LLC. The contract is for the development of a "Widely Tunable Fast Semiconductor Laser Seed Source at 1030nm for LIDAR Remote Sensing," which is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II research project. The contract is a Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract. Freedom...
This is a $749,830 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer specializing in advanced photonics and engineering services. The contract is for the development of an injection-seeded erbium-doped YAG (Er:YAG) laser transmitter intended to meet NASA's need for innovative lidar technologies for atmospheric measurements of methane. The technology is targeted for space flight applications, including potential use on the...
Freedom Photonics LLC, doing business as Freedom Photonics, has been awarded a definitive contract valued at $749,993 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to deliver a novel chip-scale seed source at 1645 nanometers for methane lidars. The firm fixed price contract was awarded under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and has a period of performance from July 2020 through December 2023. The place of performance will be...
This is a $125,000.00 firm fixed price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to N.p. Photonics, Inc., a U.S.-based fiber laser manufacturer. The contract is for the development of a high energy, narrow-linewidth, and frequency stable 780 nanometer laser transmitter for high spectral resolution lidar (HSRL) applications. This laser system will enable accurate aerosol and cloud profiling...
This is a $737,758 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Princeton Lightwave Inc. to develop a high-power, tunable seed laser for a methane-detecting LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) system. The objective is to create a robust, compact seed laser that can enable the realization of higher-performance high-energy laser sources for atmospheric methane detection. This contract builds on the feasibility demonstrated...
This federal contract award, valued at $849,920.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Freedom Photonics, LLC, a small business based in Goleta, California. The contract is for the Phase III SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) technical maturation of a compact hybrid integrated seed source for water vapor and methane LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) applications. Freedom Photonics, a subsidiary of Luminar Technologies,...
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Freedom Photonics LLC, a small business manufacturer of photonic components, modules, and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The contract, valued at $124,999.00, is for the delivery of Watt-class, diffraction-limited, narrow linewidth 8XX nanometer diode lasers under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract has a total small...
This is a firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to Freedom Photonics, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced photonic components and subsystems. The $1,644,583 contract is for the development of a low-cost, tunable seed diode laser to be used in the existing Goddard Space Flight Center methane LIDAR system. The goal is to achieve performance improvements that will enable more widespread commercial and government use of methane detection systems, including for NASA remote sensing applications. This contract was awarded under the NASA Research Announcement (NRA) for Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion 2015, and is being overseen by the Game Changing Development (GCD) program office. There is no set-aside designation for this contract.