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An All-Fiber Mid-Infrared Frequency Combs

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA9550-09-C-0124
Agency Tracking Number: F08B-T16-0217
Amount: $99,856.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF08-BT16
Solicitation Number: 2008.B
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2009
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2009-04-16
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2010-01-16
Small Business Information
4585 S. Palo Verde, Suite 405
Tucson, AZ 85714
United States
DUNS: 800757598
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Jihong Geng
 Chief Scientist, Lasers
 (520) 790-5468
 jgeng@advaluephotonics.com
Business Contact
 Shibin Jiang
Title: President
Phone: (520) 790-5468
Email: sjiang@advaluephotonics.com
Research Institution
 Cornell University
 Frank W Wise
 
School of Applied and Engineer 212 Clark Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

 (607) 255-1184
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

A low-cost fiber-based octave-spanning frequency comb system operating in the mid-IR region is proposed, which is based on femtosecond-Tm-fiber-laser-pumped supercontinuum generation in a mid-IR-transmitting dispersion-engineered fiber. An all-fiber femtosecond mode-locked Tm-doped fiber laser at 2 micron will be used as a seed source for mid-IR supercontinuum generation. A femtosecond soliton fiber amplifier will be developed at AdValue Photonics by using a very short piece of heavily Tm-doped high-gain large-mode area (LMA) fiber, which enables soliton amplification of the femtosecond pulses with average power up to 1W.  Non-silica dispersion-engineered fibers will be developed as highly nonlinear fibers for broadband mid-IR supercontinuum generation by using our proprietary glass/fiber technology, which allow us to extend the wavelength of frequency combs beyond 5 micron BENEFIT: The proposed technology will offer a turnkey mid-IR frequency comb system that will be capable of self-referencing. The self-referenced mid-IR frequency comb will be very useful for a variety of high-precision metrology applications, such as high-precision molecular spectroscopy, gas remote sensing and analysis for environmental monitoring, pollution control, agriculture and life sciences, and non-invasive disease diagnosis through breath analysis.)

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