This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advalue Photonics Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business located in Tucson, Arizona. The $123,260 firm-fixed-price contract is for the design and fabrication of an erbium-doped fiber laser capable of producing high-pulse energy at the 1.55-micron wavelength. This laser system is intended to enable coherent lidar and sensing applications for...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,961.00 Firm Fixed Price contract to Aqwest, LLC, a for-profit Limited Liability Company, for the development of a "Compact and Efficient High-Pulse Energy 2-Micron LIDAR Transmitter" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program Phase I. The contract has a completion date of March 1, 2021 and was awarded on August 31, 2020. Aqwest, LLC specializes in photonics, thermal management, and energy...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Nlight Inc., a leading provider of high power semiconductor and fiber lasers for industrial, microfabrication, aerospace and defense applications. The contract, valued at $597,473.58, is for the design and fabrication of a diode pumped Er:YAG micro-chip laser capable of varied repetition rates and high pulse energies using a single emitter-based high brightness pump. This laser system is intended to...
Advalue Photonics Inc., a minority-owned and small disadvantaged business, was awarded a $123,551.00 firm-fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is to demonstrate and build a 1.572 micron single frequency high pulse energy and high peak power fiber laser using an innovative erbium-doped gain fiber with a large core diameter and high gain per unit length. This laser...
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 $124,975.00 Firm Fixed Price purchase order contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Aqwest, LLC, a small business LLC based in Larkspur, Colorado. The contract is for the development of a novel, compact, and rugged high-peak power blue laser in the 0.45-0.49 μm range, based on a frequency-quadrupling of 1.9-μm laser output from ceramic Tm:Lu2O3, a new high-performance solid-state laser material. This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)...
This SBIR Phase I contract, awarded by NASA to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer, funds the development of a prototype 100-watt thulium (Tm) fiber laser suitable for NASA spaceflight and long-duration UAV missions. The laser is designed to provide the 1940 nm peak pump power needed to generate 80 mJ/pulse for Integrated Path Differential Absorption (IPDA) LIDAR, enabling simultaneous measurements of CO2 and water vapor from a low-Earth orbit satellite. The $124,883 firm-fixed-price...
This contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Beyond Photonics, LLC, a small business prime contractor, for the development of a highly compact, efficient next-generation single-frequency pulsed transmitter laser. The objective is to support NASA's current and future missions focused on laser remote sensing in the short-wave infrared wavelength region near two microns. The $124,948.00 firm fixed-price contract is for a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research...
This is a $3,180,246.00 firm fixed price federal contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced photonics and engineering services. The contract is for the design of an erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Er:YAG) laser transmitter, which will advance the technology readiness level (TRL) to 6. The project is funded through NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III, which...
This is a NASA SBIR Phase II contract awarded to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer specializing in advanced photonics and engineering services. Under this $2,581,999.00 contract, Fibertek will design, build, and test a hardened version of a single-frequency, end-pumped laser with an optical-to-optical efficiency of X%. The contractor will also perform breadboard amplifier tests to demonstrate energy scaling to "X" MJ/pulse and ultraviolet (UV) output to "X" W...