SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultra Low Drive Voltage Electro-Optic Modulator
Award amount
$98,867Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- FREEDOM PHOTONICS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2008-08-21
- Contract end date
- 2009-10-31
- UEI
- FQ98KK1G9199
- Solicitation number
- 2008.A
- Topic code
- ST081-014
Research abstract
The main objective of this proposal is to develop ultra low drive voltage, low insertion loss, and high bandwidth modulators. This will be achieved using substrate removed optical nanowires. This new phase modulator design and fabrication platform will be combined with existing techniques for achieving the required high bandwidth and high efficiency operation, such as traveling wave electrode design and push-pull Mach Zehnder modulator architecture. The proposed approach enables a modulator that has a drive voltage on the order of 0.1V and the potential for integration of a driver amplifier.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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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