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Single-Frequency Solid-State Laser Transmitter
Lightwave Electronics
Mountain View, CA
INNOVATION Laser-diode-pumped, solid-state laser
with precise, high output power and increased
durability

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• ? Developed 300 mW frequency-stable,
  solid-state laser
• ? Achieved sharpest signal available (narrowest
• linewidth) on market
• ? 100x more compact and 10x more efficient than
• previous technology
• COMMERCIALIZATION
• ? Sales of lasers based on this technology
  exceed 1500
• units, providing roughly 15 million in
  total revenue
• ? Worldwide markets, 40 overseas
• ? SBIR contracts have allowed company to take
• leadership role in its area of technology
  and
• expand market from science users to
  commercial users

Single-Frequency Laser

• GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
• ? Space applications include optical space
  communications, space-borne
• interferometers, and lidar and laser radar
• ? Instrument applications include optical
  ranging, fiber-optic sensing, and
• detector calibration

1985 Phase II NAS7-999 Success Story 002
Jet Propulsion Laboratory