Light Source for Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometer

Award Information

Agency: Department of Commerce	Branch: N/A	Award ID: 37788	Program Year/Program: 1998 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number: 37788	Solicitation Year: N/A	Solicitation Topic Code: N/A	Solicitation Number: N/A

Small Business Information: Aculight Corporation
22121 - 20th Avenue SE Bothell, WA 98021 4408
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Woman-Owned: No

Minority-Owned: No

HUBZone-Owned: No

Phase 2: Fiscal Year: 1998

Title: Light Source for Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometer

Agency: DOC

Contract: N/A

Award Amount: $199,976.00

Abstract:
Cavity Ring-Down (CRD) spectroscopy is developing into a precise tool for measuring gaseous contaminants in ultrahigh vacuum and other environments. Optimum sensitivity is obtained by driving the CRD spectrometer in the mid-IR part of the spectrum with about 100 mWatts of average power at 5 kHz and with pulse lengths of 10-50 nsec. Bandwidths of 100 MHz are required. There are no commercial lasers available with these properties in a small, easy-to-use instrument Aculight proposes to use periodically poled LiNbO3 (PPLN) as the non- linear converter. A new "tandem" PPLN wavelength converter will demonstrate the narrow band wavelengths necessary for detecting H2O and O2 in Phase 1 without the need to mechanically move the nonlinear crystal or exchange the optical cavity mirror set. A single frequency device will be delivered to NIST in a Phase 2 program.

Principal Investigator:
Dr. Charles Hamilton
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Business Contact:

2064519558

Small Business Information at Submission:

Aculight Corp
40 Lake Bellevue, Suite 100 Bellevue, WA 98005

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DUNS: N/A

Number of Employees: N/A

Woman-Owned: No

Minority-Owned: No

HUBZone-Owned: No