SBIR Phase I: Grating Structure for Diode Laser Wavelength Stabilization

SBIR 第一阶段：用于二极管激光波长稳定的光栅结构

• 批准号: 9560475
• 负责人: Simon Field
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Gemfire Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-03-01 至 1996-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9560475&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Grating; Structure; Diode

95604752 Field This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a low cost technique to provide highly reproducible wavelength stabilization of diode lasers. Frequency stabilized diode lasers are required for applications including wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) communications networks, process control, medical instrumentation, and data storage. At present these needs can only be met using expensive distributed feedback and distributed Bragg reflection diode lasers. This Phase I will provide an integrated optic reflection grating structure which can be used to stabilize and lock the output wavelength of inexpensive Fabry-Perot diode lasers, significantly reducing the cost of single frequency stabilized sources. The same grating fabrication process can be applied to stabilize the entire range of diode laser output wavelengths. The project will build and measure the performance of an integrated grating feedback device which may then be integrated into a prototype laser device in Phase II. The product is expected to be a frequency stabilized diode laser which operates at a pre-set optical frequency and which will be commercially applied in WDM communications networks, process control, medical instrumentation, and data storage. This technology has a sufficiently low cost that it may also stimulate applications beyond these markets.

95604752字段 该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将开发一种低成本技术，以提供高度可重复的二极管激光器波长稳定。 稳频二极管激光器的应用包括波分复用（WDM）通信网络、过程控制、医疗仪器和数据存储。 目前，这些需求只能使用昂贵的分布式反馈和分布式布拉格反射二极管激光器来满足。 第一阶段将提供一种集成光学反射光栅结构，可用于稳定和锁定廉价法布里-珀罗二极管激光器的输出波长，从而显著降低单频稳定源的成本。 可以应用相同的光栅制造工艺来稳定二极管激光器输出波长的整个范围。 该项目将建立和测量集成光栅反馈设备的性能，然后将其集成到第二阶段的原型激光设备中。 该产品预计将是一种频率稳定的二极管激光器，其工作在预设的光频率，并将在WDM通信网络，过程控制，医疗仪器和数据存储中得到商业应用。 这项技术的成本足够低，它也可能刺激这些市场以外的应用。