SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Data Rate/Low SWaP-C GPS Crosslinks
Award amount
$149,991Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- SA PHOTONICS, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2016-08-03
- Contract end date
- 2017-04-07
- UEI
- YNEBKYE8ZZN7
- Solicitation number
- 2016.1
- Topic code
- AF161-090
Research abstract
ABSTRACT: SA Photonics CrossBeam Free-Space Optical (FSO) communication system is a fully integrated, compact, and robust system that has been designed specifically for GPS crosslink applications.CrossBeam includes integrated beam steering, high bandwidth tracking capability, all fiber optic based transmit and receive optics design, and high performance FSO modem technology to provide reliable data communications for long distance crosslink applications at the fraction of the Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) of RF based systems.; BENEFIT: SA Photonics CrossBeam system promises to deliver high data rate communications for GPS crosslink applications.FSO techniques have many benefits for space crosslink applications, include being LPI/LPD ,difficult to intentionally jam, immune to EMI/EMC, do not generate RF interference, do not require RF spectrum coordination, and have very low SWaP compared to RF solutions.CrossBeam is expected to support GPS and other satellite crosslink applications, as well as space-to-air, space-to-ground and other long distance, line-of-sight communication applications
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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- Hardened, Optically-Based Temperature Characterization of Detonation Environments
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Awards with the same topic code
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- Crossbeam GPS Crosslink and Long Range Free Space Optical Communication
- Laser Communications Crosslink (LaserComXL)
- High Data Rate/Low SWaP-C GPS Crosslinks
- CrossBeam GPS Crosslink and Long Range Free Space Optical Communication System
- High Data Rate/Low SWaP-C GPS Crosslinks
Research funding history
265 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2022). Reported award amounts total $116,820,259. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security
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