Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2023)
Recipient: FIBERTEK, INC.
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2013-04-17 to 2018-07-31
Current total value of award: $2581999
Description: UNDER THIS NASA SBIR PHASE-II AWARD, THE CONTRACTOR WILL BE  DESIGNING, BUILDING AND TESTING A HARDENED VERSION OF A SINGLE-FREQUENCY, END PUMPED LASER WITH AN OPTICAL TO OPTICAL EFFICIENCY OF X%.  ALSO, THE CONTRACTOR WILL PERFORM BREADBOARD AMPLIFIER TESTS THAT DEMONSTRATE ENERGY SCALING TO "X" MJ/PULSE AND ULTRA-VIOLET (UV) OUTPUT TO "X" W AVERAGE POWER. THE GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER'S EARTH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY OFFICE (ESTO) REQUIRES A UV LASER WITH A LIFETIME IN EXCESS OF 1 BILLION SHOTS. THIS LASER WOULD BE AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR A NUMBER OF POTENTIAL SPACE-BASED LIDAR MISSIONS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS PRIORITIES IN THE NRC EARTH SCIENCE DECADAL SURVEY. THE LASER MODULE SHALL UNDERGO A SERIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFETIME TESTS TO VALIDATE THAT THE LASER DESIGN IS AT A SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL (TRL).  THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TESTS SHALL BE BASED ON NASA'S CALIPSO AND ICESAT-2 TEST REQUIREMENTS.  ALSO, THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR SHALL PRESENT THE PROGRESS/RESULTS OF THIS WORK AT IGARRS 2013, WHICH IS TO BE HELD IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA IN JULY OF 2013.