SBIR/STTR Research Award
Packaging High Power Photodetectors for 100 MHz to 100 GHz RF Photonic Applications
Award amount
$150,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- DISCOVERY SEMICONDUCTORS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2013-08-07
- Contract end date
- 2014-05-07
- UEI
- R1CGK7K1BE75
- Solicitation number
- 2013.1
- Topic code
- AF131-142
Research abstract
ABSTRACT: Discovery Semiconductors will assemble high power InGaAs/InP photodiodes with 50 ohm internal termination in a fiber-pigtailed, W1-connectorized microwave package having the following specifications: (a) Responsivity>0.7 A/W at 1550 nm wavelength; (b) -3 dB Bandwidth>60 GHz; (c) -9 dB Bandwidth>80 GHz; (d) 1 dB Compression Photocurrent>50 mA @ 60 GHz modulation frequency and>50% modulation depth; and (e) 1 dB Compression Photocurrent Density>0.64 mA/um^2. One packaged device will be delivered each to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company and Air Force for system level testing. Additionally, packaging techniques for balanced and arrayed photodiodes will be investigated. BENEFIT: The anticipated benefits/applications of this work are :(1) 60 GHz cellular; (2) Hybrid fiber/wireless systems from X-Band to W-Band; (3)Optical phased array radar; and (4)Space systems fiber optic transponders.
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.
- 2 Micron Wavelength Coherent Universal LIDAR With Adjustable Resolution and Sensitivity
- Space Flight of Ultra-Low Noise Quad Photoreceivers for Laser Interferometric Gravity Wave Detection
- Ruggedized Wideband High Power Balanced Photodiode Receiver
- Low-Noise, UV-to-SWIR Broadband Photodiodes for Large-Format Focal Plane Array Sensors
- High Power, Highly Linear Photodiode Arrays with Integrated RF Power Combiner for 2 - 20 GHz Applications
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Packaging High Power Photodetectors for 100 MHz to 100 GHz RF Photonic Applications
- Packaging High Power Photodetectors for 100 MHz to 100 GHz RF Photonic Applications
- Packaging High Power Photodetectors for 100 MHz to 100 GHz RF Photonic Applications
- Packaging of 100GHz High Power Photodiodes
Research funding history
22 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1994–2017). Reported award amounts total $5,637,695. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce