SBIR/STTR Research Award
Terabit Per Second Optical Router for Space-Based Satellite Network
Award amount
$99,968Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- FREEDOM PHOTONICS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2009-02-19
- Contract end date
- 2010-02-19
- UEI
- FQ98KK1G9199
- Solicitation number
- 2008.3
- Topic code
- AF083-191
Research abstract
Freedom Photonics proposes to utilize highly integrated photonic components to design and implement a space deployable optical router. This approach will allow for size, weight and power requirements to be met. BENEFIT: 1000x increase in available bandwidth, with 50% volume, weight and power consumption. Significant commercial market in fiber optic transport systems of the next generation.
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.
- High- Efficiency Kw-class 1550 nm Steerable Diffraction-Limited Laser Diode Arrays for Energy Web Dominance
- High-Speed Optical Fiber Data-Links for Space-Based Cryogenic Read-Out Integrated Circuits
- 1790nm tunable laser for VOC monitoring
- GeSiSn Avalanche Photodiode Arrays for High-Sensitivity SWIR Imaging Applications
- High Efficiency kW-class 1550 nm Steerable Diffraction-Limited Laser Diode Arrays for Energy Web Dominance
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Advanced wavelength switched terabit optical router for Space Networks
- Terabit Per Second Optical Router for Space-Based Satellite Network
- Terabit Per Second Optical Router for Space-Based Satellite Network
- All Optical Terabit Router for Space
Research funding history
196 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2023). Reported award amounts total $74,583,672. 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 Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture