SBIR/STTR Research Award
High-Speed Free-Space Optical Link for Cryogenic Focal Plane Array Read-Out
Award amount
$999,915Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- FREEDOM PHOTONICS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2018-06-22
- Contract end date
- 2020-11-30
- UEI
- FQ98KK1G9199
- Solicitation number
- 17.1
- Topic code
- A17-022
Research abstract
The team led by Freedom Photonics will develop in this program a novel free-space optical (FSO) link that will enable high-speed interconnects operating at multi-tens of Gbps, which are required for the newer, cryogenically cooled, large format, high definition (HD), fast frame rate, focal plane array (FPA) readout integrated circuits (ROIC). By using free-space optics to collect data from the ROIC through a window in the dewar, it is possible not only to provide a large bandwidth interconnect but to also eliminate the thermal conduction losses through copper wires, which in turn will reduce the Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) of the system. The proposed FSO interconnect architecture offers the most practical approach to providing the high bandwidth required to make military imaging possible at much higher frame rates and with larger format FPAs.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- High- Efficiency Kw-class 1550 nm Steerable Diffraction-Limited Laser Diode Arrays for Energy Web Dominance
- High-Speed Optical Fiber Data-Links for Space-Based Cryogenic Read-Out Integrated Circuits
- 1790nm tunable laser for VOC monitoring
- GeSiSn Avalanche Photodiode Arrays for High-Sensitivity SWIR Imaging Applications
- High Efficiency kW-class 1550 nm Steerable Diffraction-Limited Laser Diode Arrays for Energy Web Dominance
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High-Speed Cryogenic Optical Connector for Focal Plane Array Read-out
- High-Speed Cryogenic Optical Connector for Focal Plane Array Read-out
- High-Speed Free-Space Optical Link for Cryogenic Focal Plane Array Read-Out
Research funding history
196 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2023). Reported award amounts total $74,583,672. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture