SBIR/STTR Research Award
ULTRA-LINEAR ELECTRO-OPTIC DIRECTIONAL COUPLER BASED ON HYBRID SOL-GEL/EO POLYIMIDE WAVEGUIDES
Award amount
$98,988Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- TIPD LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2006-11-15
- Contract end date
- 2007-07-15
- UEI
- K2MLBX9JNFY4
- Solicitation number
- 2006.2
- Topic code
- SB062-016
Research abstract
The goal of this proposal is to Design, fabricate, and demonstrate a low optical loss polymer directional coupler modulator with a total insertion fiber to fiber optical loss of less than 6 dB, has a high speed of greater than 20 GHz and a drive voltage (Vp) of less than 1 Volt. We will employ polymer-solgel hybrid modulators that result in reduced fiber-to waveguide loss and enhance the r33 of the polymer by a factor of 2 to 3 compared with r33 measurements of structures that employ no solgel cladding to values exceeding 100pm/V and propagation losses of less than 2 dB/cm. In the Phase 2 of this project we will package devices with the same form factor as commercial lithium niobate modulators.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Research funding history
58 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2025). Reported award amounts total $25,150,729. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy