SBIR/STTR Research Award
Time Inter-Comparison Using Transportable Optical Combs
Award amount
$124,625Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- AOSENSE, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2016-06-10
- Contract end date
- 2016-12-09
- UEI
- C185QEUVTTM6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- H9.03
Research abstract
AOSense proposes a free-space, two-way optical time transfer system compatible with global-scale synchronization of current-generation optical atomic clocks. In Phase I, we will demonstrate the requisite performance using existing hardware coupled with off-the-shelf control electronics. Based on our results, we will design a fully-integrated module capable of disseminating timing signals with sub-femtosecond error from 1-10,000 s. Such a system would improve ground-to-satellite synchronization a million-fold over current RF-based time transfer systems.
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.
- Advanced Narrow-linewidth Tunable Laser for Rydberg Sensors (ANTLRS)
- Advanced Laser-Pumped Atomic Clock Architecture (ALPACA)
- QuAIS phase II
- Robust Atom Interferometry Laser System (RAILS)
- Low-Power Microwave Oscillator (LMO)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- NonLinear Parallel OPtimization Tool
- Time Inter-Comparison Using Transportable Optical Combs
- CUA OpenMP Nonlinear Optimization Tool
- Spacecraft Rendezvous Guidance in Cluttered Dynamical Environments via Extreme Learning Machines
- Spacecraft Position Estimation in Interplanetary Trajectories Using Star Trackers
Research funding history
59 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2025). Reported award amounts total $30,653,327. 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 Homeland Security, National Science Foundation