N.P. PHOTONICS, INC.
High-power fiber lasers for OEM and research applications
- Sector
- Defense
- Headquarters
- Tucson, AZ
- Latest Form D
- $800K, Mar 2010
- Total capital
- $60.8M
- Federal grants
- $24.4M
- 46 awards · 2015–2026
- Rank in peer group#10 of 164
- Private capital raised
- $800K
- 1 Form D · last Mar 2010
- 200 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- $35.6M
- 110 awards · Defense, NASA, Commerce
- Rank in Defense#180 of 1442
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Power Scalable 1762 Nm Single-frequency Laser For Barium Ion Qubits The Objective Of This Effort Is To Design, Build, Test, And Deliver A Power-scalable, Single-frequency Fiber Laser Prototype Operating At 1762 Nm.$2.1M
- Federal contractDefense · Power Scalable 1762 Nm Single-frequency Laser For Barium Ion Qubits The Objective Of This Effort Is To Design, Build, Test, And Deliver A Power-scalable, Single-frequency Fiber Laser Prototype Operating At 1762 Nm.$2.1M
- Federal contractInterior · Phase I SBIR - 10-KW-CLASS Single-mode Fiber Amplifier$250K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Base Award For STTR Phase II Topic # N23A-T012$719K
- Federal contractDefense · Base Award For STTR Phase II Topic # N23A-T012$719K
- Federal contractDefense · Rock Fiber Laser Source For Calstds$45K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Base Award For STTR Phase II Topic #N22A-T010.$700K
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$800K
Show 147 earlier federal awards
- Federal contractDefense · Base Award For STTR Phase II Topic #N22A-T010.$1.3M
- Federal contractNASA · FY24 SBIR Phase I- Space-qualified Single-frequency Blue Lasers For Optical Atomic Clocks$150K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · FY24 SBIR Phase I- Space-qualified Single-frequency Blue Lasers For Optical Atomic Clocks$150K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Low C-swap 2.1 Micron Transmitter For Long-range Eo/ir Sensing$750K
- Federal contractDefense · Low C-swap 2.1 Micron Transmitter For Long-range Eo/ir Sensing$750K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · BASE$700K
- Federal contractDefense · BASE$1.8M
- Federal contractDefense · Optical Fiber Combiner For Combining Mwir Quantum Cascade Laser Beams$180K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Optical Fiber Combiner For Combining Mwir Quantum Cascade Laser Beams$180K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Large Form Factor Scintillators for Nuclear Battlefield Operations$168K
- Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase I.$240K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Low-nonlinearity Yb-doped Fiber Amplifier Arrays for Ultrafast Fiber Laser Combining$200K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Compact High Power Mid-Wave Infrared Laser System$1.2M
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$1.7M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · High Brightness Mid-IR Laser Illuminator$150K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Low C-SWaP 2.1 micron transmitter for long-range EO/IR sensing$150K
- Federal contractDefense · Np Photonics Bench Laser$45K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Nonlinearity mitigated gain fiber development for kW-class fiber lasers$240K
- Federal contractDefense · N.p. Photonics, Inc. SBIR Phase II$1.1M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Kilowatt Class Fiber Optical Isolator for Submarine High Energy Laser Amplifier$240K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · Compact and Robust Ultrafast Laser Source at 2.1 um$1.1M
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · High-power ultrashort pulse laser beam delivery system. Topic/Subtopic 10.a$200K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · 2-micron Wavelength Kilowatt Class High Energy Laser/Amplifier$1.2M
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Ph 2$1.7M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Fast Low Loss Uninterrupted Optical Switch$140K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · 2-Photon Rb Optical Clock$1.5M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Diode-pumped High-efficiency Green Laser Source$140K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Novel High Power and Energy Eye-safe Transform-Limited Fiber Laser Illuminator$750K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Compact and Robust Ultrafast Laser Source at 2.1 um Topic 16.c$200K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$1.6M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Anti-Resonant Hollow-Core Fibers for High Energy Laser Delivery with Ultra-low Nonlinearity$1.6M
- Federal contractDefense · Base Effort - SR1 Phase I$112K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · 1 Micrometer Integrated Transmitter for Balanced Radio-Frequency-Over-Fiber Photonic Links$140K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Miniature Diode-pumped Solid-state Laser for Military and Aerospace Environments$1.1M
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$800K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Wide Band Large Aperture Beam Director Head Window$140K
- Federal contractDefense · Kickoff Briefing Materials$240K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Two-micron Ultrashort Pulse Laser for Army Platforms$112K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Butterfly-type Single-frequency Fiber Laser for Radio Frequency Photonics$140K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Mid-Wave Infrared Raman Fiber Amplifier$140K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Broadband Fiber Optic Components for DoD Applications based on Tellurite Glass Fibers$750K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I$240K
- Federal contractDefense · Develop An Optical Emulator Of Complex Em Systems With Nan Photonics Structure.$140K
- Federal contractDefense · Eye-safe Fiber Laser Illuminator For Coherent Detection$150K
- Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase I$240K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development Igf::ot::igf$240K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Mid-Wave Infrared Polarization-Maintaining Single Mode Fiber$140K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Scalable Compact Ultra-short Pulse Laser Systems at 2 micron$125K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · High Power Pump Signal Combiners for Next Generation Monolithic Fiber Amplifiers$100K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Variable Pulsed Parameter Tracking Illuminator Laser$1M
- Federal contractDefense · Small Business Innovation Research And Development - Phase II - "variable Pulsed Parameter Tracking Illuminator Laser".$1.1M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Development of Solid-state Optical Cooler Materials to Replace Conventional Cryocoolers Used for Cooling SWIR and LWIR Infrared Detectors and Focal-plane-arrays$1M
- Federal contractDefense · Broadband Fiber Optics Components For DOD Applications$150K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · All-Fiber Optical Isolator for High Energy Lasers at 2 m$750K
- Federal contractDefense · Laser Module Pr# 56-9544-17$40K
- Federal contractDefense · Laser Seeds$76K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Development of Solid-state Optical Cooler Materials to Replace Conventional Cryocoolers Usedfor Cooling SWIR and LWIR Infrared Detectors and Focal-plane-arrays$150K
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR Phase I$150K
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Small Business Innovative Research Phase I Contract For Variable Pulsed Parameter Tracking Illuminator Laser.$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igfrock Fiber Laser Module$21K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Highly Doped Glass Enabled High Repetition Rate, High Average Power USPL Sources$750K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Variable Pulsed Parameter Tracking Illuminator Laser$150K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Rare-earth-doped Nanoparticles for Remote Readout Topic 1.a$150K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development Igf::ot::igf$750K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Broadband High Power Mid-IR Supercontinuum Source$969K
- Federal contractDefense · Base Igf::ot::igf$1.1M
- Federal contractCommerce · Pre Amplifier$19K
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Highly Doped Glass Enabled High Repetition Rate, High Average Power Uspl Sources$150K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · 780 nm Single-Frequency Laser Source for High Spectral Resolution Lidar$125K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Wavelength-tunable High-repetition-rate Mode-locked Laser Source for Accelerator Applications$150K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Powerful Source of Collimated Coherent Infrared Radiation with Pulse Duration Fewer than Ten Cycles$1.0M
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf First Monthly Technical Report$999K
- Federal contractCommerce · A High Power L-band Cw Fiber Laser Amplifier Operating At 1573 +/-2 Nm With 100 Uj/pulse At A 10 Khz Repetition Rate (1 W Of Average Power.$35K
- Federal contractDefense · Laser Diode Kit, RFLM-25-3-W1-1-S-0-NSI$43K
- Federal contractDefense · 1556 Nm LASER_80MW Part Number: RFLM-80$39K
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Ultra-Low Noise Phase Stabilized High Repetition Rate Erbium Fiber Laser System for Timing Synchronization with High Average And Peak Power$150K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Optical System for Precision Atomic Clocks and Stable Oscillators$748K
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Phase I First Monthly Technical Report$150K
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf SBIR 1 - Optical System For Precision Atomic Clocks And Stable Oscillators$150K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Funds For Repair And Reoptimization Of Ssb-free Pm Erbium-doped Optical Fiber Amplifier$18K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Repair And Re-optimization Of Sbs-free Pm Erbium-doped Optical Fiber Amplifier$6K
- Federal contractDefense · Powe Fiber Laser$59K
- Federal contractDefense · R&d Topic N103-210$2.3M
- Federal contractCommerce · Purchase A Rock Fiber Laser$18K
- Federal contractCommerce · Unl Fiber Laser$25K
- Federal contractDefense · Performance Of Work In Accordanc With$100K
- Federal contractCommerce · Narrow Linewidth Cw Fiber Lasers$25K
- Federal contractNASA · Fiber Amplifier$54K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development SBIR Ph I Topic N112-089$80K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$743K
- Federal contractDefense · Ci - Fiber Laser Source$32K
- Federal contractDefense · Title Of Effort: "deep Ultraviolet Laser For Raman Spectroscopy" Type Of Contract: Army STTR Phase I$100K
- Federal contractDefense · STTR Topic N11A-T005$80K
- Federal contractDefense · 9-MONTH STTR Phase 1$100K
- Federal contractNASA · This Proposal Is For The Development Of An Innovative, High Power, And Extremely Reliable 1.26-MICRON Ho-doped Fluoride Fiber Amplifier. The Proposed Fiber Amplifier Consists Of A Ho-doped Fluoride Fiber Pre-amplifier And Power Amplifier. Laser At 1187 Nm Will Be Used As A Resonant Pump Laser Source For HO3+-DOPED Fiber Laser. High Gain Per Unit Length At 1.2 Micron Can Be Achieved In Ho-doped Fluoride Glass Fiber Due To The Strong Pump Absorption At 1187 Nm And Strong Emission At 1.2 Micron Tra$600K
- Federal contractNASA · We Propose An All-fiber Based 2.05-MICRON Single Frequency, Narrow Linewidth Seeder Laser With 10 Nm Tuning Range And 5GHZ Frequency Modulation For Next Generation LIDAR System. Highly Tm-doped Fiber Laser Is Used As A Resonant Pump Source In Order To Reduce The Phase Noise And Laser Linewidth. An Environment Insensitive Package Will Be Used To Minimize The Laser Phase Noise And Linewidth. HO3+-DOPED Fiber Is Used For Seed Laser Generation, Due To Its Strong Emission At 2.05 Micron. A Piezo Atta$600K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phasei Topic N111-029$80K
- Federal contractCommerce · Purchase A Cw Fiber Laser$16K
- Federal contractDefense · High Power S-band Tunable All Fiber Based Transmitter For Satellite Communications$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Optical Fiber Amplifier$55K
- Federal contractNASA · For Nasa's Various Types Of Coherent LIDAR Applications, Np Photonics Propose To Develop A 50 Mj Monolithic 2 Micron Pulsed Fiber Laser Transmitter In 200 Ns Regime With Transform-limited Linewidth, Leveraging On Np's Proprietary Germanate Active Fibers. Np's Patented Large Core Sm Pm Highly Tm-doped Germanate Glass Fibers Have High Unit Gain And High Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (sbs)-threshold. We Will Use Our Proprietary Single-frequency Actively Q-switched Fiber Laser Seed In Order To Mak$99K
- Federal contractNASA · Rock Fiber Laser Module$18K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR R&d Topic# N103-211$80K
- Federal contractCommerce · High Power Fiber Laser Source (rock) Part #RFLSA-5000-3-1550.14-PM-NA-1 Nsi High Power Fiber Laser Source (rock) Part #RFLSA-5000-3-1048.57-PM-NA-1 Nsi$97K
- Federal contractCommerce · Part Number: RFLSA-10000-3-1551.33-PM-NA-1-NSI High Fiber Laser Source Qty 1 Each Part Number: FRLSA-10000-3-1050.98-PM-NA1-NSI High Fiber Laser Source Qty 1 Each$121K
- Federal contractDefense · R&d SBIR Topic N103-210$150K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development SBIR Topic N092-119$750K
- Federal contractDefense · Scientific Research Services$100K
- Federal contractNASA · Yb Doped Phosphate Glass Waveguide Amplifiers$24K
- Federal contractCommerce · Rock Fiber Lase Module: Item Number RFLM-50-3-1565-1-NSI$19K
- Federal contractCommerce · Rock Fiber Laser Module, Part Number RFLM-80-3- 1560.46NM(VAC)-1$19K
- Federal contractDefense · High Power Laser Source$34K
- Federal contractDefense · Single Frequency Laser$32K
- Federal contractDefense · Laser Module Np$22K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$100K
- Federal contractCommerce · High Power Fiber Laser Source (rock), 19" Rack Mount Unit, Part Number RFLSA-1000-3-1030.03(VAC)-PM-NS0-UNL.$39K
- Federal contractDefense · (STTR Pase 2) Efficient High Power Tunable Thz Source Based On All Fiber-based Pulsed Fiber Lasers At - 2MM$750K
- Federal contractDefense · Np Photonics SBIR Phase I$100K
- Federal contractDefense · High Power S-c Band Optical Fiber Amplifier For Satcom$100K
- Federal contractNASA · This Proposal Is For The Development Of An Innovative, High Power, And Extremely Reliable 1.26-MICRON Ho-doped Fluoride Fiber Amplifier. The Proposed Fiber Amplifier Consists Of A Ho-doped Fluoride Fiber Pre-amplifier And Power Amplifier. Laser At 1187 Nm Will Be Used As A Resonant Pump Laser Source For HO3+-DOPED Fiber Laser. High Gain Per Unit Length At 1.26 Micron Can Be Achieved In Ho-doped Fluoride Glass Fiber Due To The Strong Pump Absorption At 1187 Nm And Strong Emission At 1.2 Micron Tr$100K
- Federal contractNASA · We Propose An All-fiber Based 2.05-MICRON Single Frequency, Narrow Linewidth Seeder Laser With 10 Nm Tuning Range And 5GHZ Frequency Modulation For Next Generation LIDAR System. Highly Tm-doped Fiber Laser Is Used As A Resonant Pump Source In Order To Reduce The Phase Noise And Laser Linewidth. An Environment Insensitive Package Will Be Used To Minimize The Laser Phase Noise And Linewidth. HO3+-DOPED Fiber Is Used For Seed Laser Generation, Due To Its Strong Emission At 2.05 Micron. A Piezo Atta$100K
- Federal contractNASA · In Phase I, Np Photonics Has Achieved 1.2 Kw Peak Power For 105 Ns Fiber Laser Pulses, And Successfully Demonstrated The Feasibility To Produce Monolithic High Sbs Threshold Narrow Linewidth Fiber Amplifiers For All Fiber-based Laser Transmitters Ideally Suited To Nasa's Active Remote Sensing Spectroscopy. In Phase II, Np Photonics Proposes To Develop Prototypes Or Products Of The High Sbs-threshold, Single-mode (sm), Polarization Maintaining (pm), High Power Amplifiers Operating With Sub-micros$600K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR I Compact All-fiber 2 Micron Isolator And Pump Combiner$100K
- Federal contractNASA · This Proposal Is For The Development Of An Innovative Compact, High Power, And Extremely Reliable 1.26 Micron Ho-doped Single Frequency Fiber Laser. The Proposed Single Frequency Seeder Fiber Laser Consists Of Raman Pump Laser And Single Frequency 1.26-MICRON Fiber Laser, Which Will Be Constructed By Using HO3+-DOPED Fluoride Glass Fiber. A Raman Fiber Laser Is Used As A Resonant Pump Laser Source For HO3+-DOPED Fiber Laser. High Gain Per Unit Length At 1.26 Micron Can Be Achieved In Ho-doped Fl$600K
- Federal contractDefense · Single Mode Thz Crystal Fiber As Efficient Thz Parametric Converter$749K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR P1$150K
- Federal contractCommerce · Rock Fiber Laser Module - RFKN-50-3-1069.72-1-UNL$18K
- Federal contractNASA · Rock Fiber Laser Module$26K
- Federal contractNASA · Optical Fiber Amplifier$60K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$70K
- Federal contractCommerce · Rock Fiber Laser Module$19K
- Federal contractNASA · 1.26 Single Frequency Fiber Laser This Proposal Is For The Development Of An Innovative Compact, High Power, And Extremely Reliable 1.26 Micron Ho-doped Single Frequency Fiber Laser. The Proposed Single Frequency Fiber Laser Consists Of Raman Pump Laser And Single Frequency 1.26-MICRON Fiber Laser, Which Will Be Constructed By Using HO3+-DOPED Fluoride Glass Fiber. A Raman Fiber Laser Is Used As A Resonant Pump Laser Source For HO3+-DOPED Fiber Laser. High Gain Per Unit Length Can Be Achieved $100K
- Federal contractNASA · High Sbs-threshold Er/yb Co-doped Phosphate Glass Fiber Amplifiers For High Power, Sub-us Pulsed, Narrow Linewidth, All Fiber-based Laser Transmitter In Order To Implement The Monolithic High Power Narrow Linewidth Pulsed All Fiber-based Laser Transmitter By Using A Mopa Configuration For Nasa's Active Remote Sensing Spectroscopy, Np Photonics Propose To Develop The High Sbs-threshold, Single-mode (sm), Polarization Maintaining (pm), High Power Amplifiers For The Sub-microsecond Pulses With Tra$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Single Mode Thz Crystal Fiber As Efficient Thz Parametric Converter$100K
- Federal contractDefense · (STTR Phase I)efficeint High Power Tunable Thz Source Based On All Fiber-based Pulsed Fiber Lasers At 1.55 Micron$100K
- Federal contractDefense · First Status Report$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Rock Fiber Laser Source$17K
- Federal contractCommerce · Tunable Laser$13K
- Federal contractNASA · Single Frequency Fiber Laser$18K
- Federal contractCommerce · Tubable Laser$18K
- Federal contractDefense · Laser Active Denial Technology$1.6M
- Federal contractDefense · Computer Fiber Laser$68K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II R&d Reports.$729K
- Federal contractCommerce · Single Mode Fiber Laser$53K
- Federal contractNASA · High Power Single Frequency Laser With Integrated Frequency Modulators, Two Optical Output Ports, Including All The Necessary Electronic Controllers And Power Supplies.$74K
- Federal contractNASA · Compact 2 Micron Seed Laser$600K
- Federal contractDefense$666K
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Federal first
92months
from N.P. PHOTONICS, INC.’s first federal award to its first private round.
- First federal award · Jul 2002
- Defense · $666K
- First Form D · Mar 2010
- $800K · 1st Form D
- Awards before first raise
- 30 awards
An association in public records, not a cause or a prediction.
Standing among 164 peers
Line = medianDefense · Device
- Federal grants#10 · top 6%
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Founders and team
Researcher links verified by same-company patents and grants- Arturo Chavez-PirsonResearcherExecutive OfficerLinked by $6M in grants as PI
- Carl EiblDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Douglas PearsonExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
- George KenneyDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Jeffrey DrazanDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Micki DowneyExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
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- Nasser PeyghambarianDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
No granted patents are on record.
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Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Regulatory activity · Defense
- Danger Zone; Waters of Carr Creek and Whitehall Bay in the Vicinity of the Naval Support Activity AnnapolisEngineers Corps
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Sources
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