SBIR/STTR Research Award
Scalable Photonic Beam-Forming System For Large, Wide-Bandwidth RF Phased Array Antennas
Award amount
$68,626Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- IPITEK, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2008-07-14
- Contract end date
- 2009-02-14
- UEI
- YS8MMVKASGB6
- Solicitation number
- 2008.A
- Topic code
- N08-T007
Research abstract
IPITEK proposes to design a highly scalable photonic true time delay solution enabling a multifunction wideband electronically scanned antenna. Our innovative architecture utilizes passive Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) true-time-delay (TTD) modules to address all antenna array elements in parallel, while not requiring active optical elements, in the control of a large array of antenna elements for both broadband RF and wide angle steering. Phase I will investigate the proposed design and validate the feasibility to meet Navy specifications. Phase II will address a COTS-based demonstration of the concept for a limited array size, and justify the scalability to large arrays.
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.
- Selective Radio Frequency Shielding
- Selective Radio Frequency Shielding
- DNA-Based EMI-Shielding Materials
- Biotronic Sensors for Cost, Size, Weight and Power, and Enhanced Bandwidth (C-SWaP-B)
- 2D OLED Array Using High Upconversion Efficiency Nanoparticles for Directly Converting IR to Visible Light
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Photonic Switched True Time Delay (TTD) Beam Forming Network
- Photonic WDM Digital Beamformer
- Photonic Switched True Time Delay (TTD) Beam Forming Network
Research funding history
46 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2014). Reported award amounts total $10,017,438. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce