SBIR/STTR Research Award
Quasi-Phase Matched Waveguides for Quantum Frequency Conversion
Award amount
$1,499,877Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- Advanced Research, Inc., dba AdvR, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-12-01
- Contract end date
- 2016-11-30
- UEI
- W5BTMLDNALW6
- Solicitation number
- 2013.1
- Topic code
- SB133-001
Research abstract
This Phase II SBIR effort will fabricate quantum frequency conversion (QFC) devices with cutting-edge performance to satisfy DARPA quantum information science applications. Quasi-phase matching (QPM) in potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) and lithium niobate (LN) waveguides designed for very low loss will be used to create frequency convertors at arbitrary source and target wavelengths with near-unity efficiency and low background noise. In the Phase II effort, coupling and propagation loss will be reduced in anti-reflection (AR) coated KTP and LN waveguides and a versatile fiber microbench platform for optimized mode matching, compact and robust fiber packaging, and noise and spectral filtering will be developed. Fiber-packaged KTP and LN waveguides will be used to develop robust packaged quantum frequency convertors with near-unity internal quantum efficiency (QE) and estimated 1.0 dB end-to-end loss in order to address future provably-secure DoD communications and other quantum information needs.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Efficient Narrowband Entangled Photon Sources for Interfacing with Quantum Memory
- Visible to Near-Infrared I/Q Modulators
- Waveguide-based, Visible to Near IR Electro-optic Switches
- High-Repetition-Rate Pump Sources Tailored for High-Purity Entanglement Generation
- Waveguide-Based, high heralding efficiency biphoton source
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Quantum Information Converter with Modal Key
- Quasi-Phase Matched Waveguides for Quantum Frequency Conversion
- Efficient Photonic Qubit Up-and-Down Conversion in Packaged Nonlinear Micro-resonators and Waveguides
- Efficient Quantum Frequency Conversion for Advanced Optical Communications
Research funding history
122 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1999–2025). Reported award amounts total $45,302,877. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, Environmental Protection Agency