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Aqwest, LLC
UEI: GELKYCZTCY69
# of Employees: 9
HUBZone Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Woman Owned: No
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Blue Laser Based on Frequency-Quadrupled Tm:Lu2O3
Amount: $124,963.00Aqwest proposes to develop a novel, compact and rugged high-peak power blue laser in the 0.45-0.49 m range. The innovative blue laser is based on a frequency-quadrupling of 1.9-μm laser output from c ...
SBIRPhase I2016National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
1.5-Micron Amplifier for High-Average Power
Amount: $123,944.00Aqwest proposes to develop a novel, compact and rugged high-peak power erbium (Er) laser amplifier at 1.5 m to for NASA remote sensing trasmitter. The project will take advantage our novel and highly ...
SBIRPhase I2016National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Magnetocaloric Generator for Waste Heat Recovery
Amount: $149,965.88A 2008 DOE report [1] indicated that up to 903 terra-btu per year of unrecovered low-level industrial waste heat IWH) in the US is available for conversion to electricity. Converting this heat to elec ...
SBIRPhase I2015Department of Energy -
Efficient 2-Micron Laser Driver for Laser Acceleration
Amount: $149,973.97Laser plasma accelerators LPA) enabled by the Tm laser driver to be developed by this project offer much reduced size and cost compared to conventional accelerators of the same energy. This would dras ...
SBIRPhase I2015Department of Energy -
Advanced Laser Driver for Inertial Fusion Energy
Amount: $999,944.00Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) offers to tap almost unlimited sources of inexpensive energy. While ICF has been demonstrated at the Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laborator ...
SBIRPhase II2015Department of Energy -
Phase Change Thermal Buffers for Environmental Control Unit Efficiency Improvement
Amount: $149,921.00Aqwest LLC proposes to develop a phase change material (PCM)-based thermal energy storage (TES) to enable"rightsizing"of environmental control units (ECU) and improve overall efficiency through reduce ...
SBIRPhase I2014Department of Defense Army -
Advanced Laser Driver for Inertial Fusion Energy
Amount: $149,965.64IFE offers to tap almost unlimited sources of inexpensive energy. This new energy source would free the U.S. from the dependence on hydrocarbon fuels, the use of which produces green-house gases (GHG) ...
SBIRPhase I2014Department of Energy -
Magnetocaloric Generator for Geothermal Heat Energy Recovery
Amount: $149,932.00Traditional means for production of electricity from geothermal (GT heat use hot water naturally occurring in some locations at or near Earths surface or hot water obtained from deep wells. The former ...
SBIRPhase I2012Department of Energy -
High Power Ultra-Short Pulse Bulk Laser Amplifier at Eye Safer Wavelengths
Amount: $79,983.00Aqwest will develop a novel high-power ultra-short pulse (USP) laser amplifier at eye safer wavelengths (ESW). The project will leverage our previous work in the development of USP laser amplifiers an ...
SBIRPhase I2012Department of Defense Navy -
Payload Thermal Management Technology
Amount: $99,961.00Aqwest proposes to investigate an innovative staged magnetocaloric refrigerator (SMCR) for thermal management of spacecraft payload electronics. SMCR offers a high-performance approach for thermal ma ...
SBIRPhase I2010Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency