SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Narrow-linewidth Tunable Laser for Rydberg Sensors (ANTLRS)
Award amount
$149,914Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2025Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- AOSENSE, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2025-08-27
- Contract end date
- 2026-03-27
- UEI
- C185QEUVTTM6
- Solicitation number
- SBIR 2025-I
- Topic code
- S11
Research abstract
AOSense proposes to develop a narrow-linewidth, widely tunable, high-power near-infrared laser in a robust, compact, semi-monolithic package compatible with the vibration conditions in suborbital flight. The laser will enable Rydberg excitation in rubidium from the 5D_5/2_ state to target states spanning n=35-100, accessing resonant microwave Rydberg transitions spanning the S band to the W band. The Phase I effort will include designing the laser package, building the laser, testing the laser performance (e.g., wavelength, coarse tuning range, mode-hop-free tuning range, linewidth, and power), and planning further studies of vibration testing and Rydberg microwave-sensing sensitivity response to laser linewidth.
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 Laser-Pumped Atomic Clock Architecture (ALPACA)
- QuAIS phase II
- Robust Atom Interferometry Laser System (RAILS)
- Low-Power Microwave Oscillator (LMO)
- Transportable Rugged Crystalline Silicon Reference (TRuCR)
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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