SBIR/STTR Research Award

Generation and amplification of gravitational waves for military communications

Award identifier cdc9ab5e4790a1d2c47277873b38d0c14be6b54fbc6cd6e4d2cbb852702368bdAwarding agency Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Award amount

$999,999

Program and phase

STTR · Phase II

Award year

2014

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Award details

Awarding agency
Department of Defense
Branch
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Recipient company
SLS, GR LLC
Proposal award date
2014-07-01
Contract end date
2016-06-30
UEI
NH54EQDUW7M7
Solicitation number
2013.0
Topic code
ST13A-003

Research abstract

We propose to construct a parametric amplifier and oscillator system for generating and detecting gravitational microwaves using a moving, impermeable superconducting membrane as its active element. A configuration of three adjacent, high-Q SRF cylindrical cavities will be constructed, consisting of a single pump cavity separated from a double signal and idler cavity by means of this membrane, which is impermeable to gravitational waves due to the gravitational Meissner effect. The membrane is driven into sinusoidal motion by the radiation pressure exerted on its left side by electromagnetic microwaves that fill the high-Q pump cavity from a pump source. On the right side of the membrane, vacuum fluctuations of the double signal and idler cavity with a doublet of high-Q microwave resonances will be exponentially amplified above the threshold for the dynamical Casimir effect, so that signal and idler gravitational waves can be generated out of these fluctuations, in addition to the usual electromagnetic waves. Thus an analog of a laser for generating gravitational waves could be constructed. We will test a working parametric oscillator for gravitational-wave output by feeding it back into the oscillator using a VSWR method, in which the electromagnetic output is blocked by a normal metallic filter.

Technology keywords

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Research funding history

2 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2013–2014). Reported award amounts total $1,099,898. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.

Phases: Phase II, Phase I

Agencies: Department of Defense

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Department of Defense

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