Area-Multiplied Photonic-crystal Enhanced Devices (AMPED)
Summary
DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals for the Area-Multiplied Photonic-crystal Enhanced Devices (AMPED) program to develop chip-scale, single‑mode, diffraction‑limited continuous‑wave lasers with unprecedented output power. The effort aims to achieve orders‑of‑magnitude improvement over current photonic‑crystal surface‑emitting laser technology, representing a major advance in high‑power integrated photonics.