SBIR/STTR Research Award
Robust Frequency Combs and Lasers for Optical Clocks and Sensing
Award amount
$748,310Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- VESCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2016-05-03
- Contract end date
- 2018-11-02
- UEI
- JDCKBJDFLLL5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S1.09
Research abstract
Vescent Photonics proposes to bring an environmentally robust, compact, high fidelity frequency comb to the commercial market. This will be comb based on a NIST design, augmented with a high bandwidth graphene modulator. Vescent will partner with MRADS, a CU spin-off commercializing high bandwidth graphene modulators for mode-locked lasers. These modulators will both improve performance of the NIST comb and also give Vescent the freedom to operate in the commercial market. These devices will be incorporated into the packages developed during this Phase I and will be a central component of the final deliverable: a pair of high fidelity frequency combs.
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.
- Compact Optical Cavities for Quantum Photonics and Integrated Timing Solutions (COCQPITS)
- Photonic Reconfigurable Optical-frequency-comb-based Microwave sensor for Intelligence and Signals Exploitation (PROMISE)
- Dual-Comb, Hyperspectral Nanoscopy of Biological Compounds at the Shot-Noise Limit
- Cooling Lasers for Optical Clocks in Space (CLOCS)
- Rare Earth Amplifier Chips (REACh)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Deep Space Cryocooler System (DSCS)
- A 10 K Multistage Cryocooler with Very Low Vibration
- Low Cost Cryocooler Control Electronics for Small Space Platforms
- Cryomechanical Preconcentration System for Trace Gas Analysis
- Regenerators for 10 Kelvin Cryocoolers
Research funding history
81 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $26,537,716. 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, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency