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Goddard Space Flight Center  
1992 Phase II 

Miniature Ultra-Stable Diode Laser  

Environmental Optical Sensors,  Inc. 

Boulder, CO 
 

INNOVATION 
    Diode laser source with long and short term stability below 100 KHz using optical feedback from external cavity grating
Miniature Ultra-Stable Diode Laser
Tunable Laser Diode
ACCOMPLISHMENTS 
  • Phase I resulted in a stabilized laser diode delivered to NASA including commercial quality packaged electronics
  • Phase II resulted in a miniaturize laser diode, frequency reference and control electronics the size of a cigarette pack 
COMMERCIALIZATION 
  • Manufacturing an external cavity diode laser that grew out of the Phase I research
  • Currently commercializing a miniaturize laser diode and electronics package designed fro OEM marketplace
  • Laser offers wavelengths from 630 nm out to 2000 nm
  • 200 units have been delivered to research universities
  • Firm anticipates sales of $ 3M in 1997 
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GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS 
  • High bit rate coherent optical communication systems, passive ring cavity-type fiber gyroscopes, optically pumped rubidium and cesium clocks
  • Precision metrology, and the detection of trace compounds and pollutants in the atmosphere and in water
  • Process control medical applications and agricultural food processing
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