STTR Phase I: Novel OptoCeramic Materials for High Efficiency Ceramic Lasers

这项小型企业技术转移（STTR）第一阶段项目将开发用于高能激光应用的下一代陶瓷材料。这一创新的意义包括：(1)具有高浓度掺杂能力；(2)能够方便、及时地完成全面的掺杂材料和浓度筛选；(3)具有多功能性能的创新材料体系；(4)独特的陶瓷材料，成本非常低。陶瓷激光材料开发的成功将导致一个令人兴奋的发光陶瓷新家族，能够在许多不同的波长提供高效率的激光。在该项目中，任务将包括预先确定掺杂材料，烧结PLZT粉末，包括优化，材料的组合筛选以及表征以确定最佳组成。在商业上，该项目开发的技术将极大地惠及许多技术部门。从该项目中开发的高效激光材料将导致高功率和低成本的固态激光系统，对军事和民用应用具有巨大的战略和商业价值。这些包括遥感、目标识别和探测、导弹制导照明、机载和天基平台测量、多波长下一代测量系统和工业激光加工。

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will develop next-generation ceramic materials for high-energy laser applications. The significance of this innovation include (1) high concentration doping capability; (2) a comprehensive doping material and concentration screening which can be easily and timely accomplished; (3) an innovative material system capable of multifunction performance; (4) a unique ceramic material which is very low-cost. Success in the ceramic laser material development will lead to an exciting new family of luminescent ceramics capable of delivering high efficiency lasers at many different wavelengths. In the project the tasks will involve predetermining the dopant materials, sintering the PLZT powders including optimization, combinatorial screening of the materials coupled with characterization to identify the optimum composition.Commercially, the technology developed in this program will greatly benefit many technology sectors. High efficiency laser materials developed from this project would lead to high power and low cost solid-state laser systems that would have tremendous strategic and commercial values to military and civilian applications. These include remote sensing, target recognition and detection, missile guidance illumination, measurements from air- and space-borne platforms, multiple wavelengths next-generation measurement systems, and industrial laser machining.