SBIR/STTR Research Award
Optical Gain Modulators and Switches Using Toggling (BMDO02-011B)
Award amount
$69,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2002Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Lightspin Technologies Inc
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- M29HE5CKLCF8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
"An optical waveform can be driven by an electrical signal using the novel physics and device structure of a "toggling" gain modulator. Operation over 100 GHz is anticipated with high extinction. Toggling modulators are expected to dissipate little power,tolerate wide variation in operating temperature, and avoid amplified spontaneous emission noise. Toggling gain modulators should enable a new class of ultra-fast gated optoelectronic devices, including modulation of CW or pulsed sources, opticalswitching, gated detection, and interprocessor communications devices."
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.
- Novel silicon based Photomultiplier Chip
- Ultraviolet and Solar Blind Single Photon Diode Arrays
- Radiation-tolerant, high-density GaInP SPAD arrays
- SiPM Array detector for 50 ps CTR
- InGaAs Photomultiplier Chip Photon Counting Array for 1550 nm Operation
Research funding history
31 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2021). Reported award amounts total $9,503,040. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation