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Integrated Low Linewidth Tunable Laser

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00167-11-P-0126
Agency Tracking Number: N103-219-0060
Amount: $79,905.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N103-219
Solicitation Number: 2010.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2010
Award Year: 2011
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2011-03-09
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
615 A State Street
Santa Barbara, CA -
United States
DUNS: 191741292
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Leif Johansson
 General Manager
 (805) 277-3031
 mashan@freedomphotonics.com
Business Contact
 Milan Mashanovitch
Title: General Manager
Phone: (805) 277-3031
Email: info@freedomphotonics.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

This proposal seeks to build build a widely tunable laser (>20 nm tuning) with the phase noise performance sufficient for use with existing fiber optic interferometer hydrophone sensors on Virginia Class Submarines. In Phase I, we propose to conduct a feasibility study of modifying a widely tunable laser design to achieve low linewidth. Monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuit (PICs) technology has great potential to provide the most compact, efficient, and lightweight widely tunable lasers. With the integration of many functional blocks for light generation, tuning, and modulation on a single chip, one gains performance improvements with removed insertion losses, reduction of optoelectronic component count, and enhanced temperature and vibration stability. An integrated device can be placed in a very small footprint with very low packaging complexity. Freedom Photonics proposes in this work to develop a new type of low phase noise tunable semiconductor lasers based on our new integration platform, which allows for high laser output power, low coupling losses, and low propagation losses.

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