SBIR/STTR Research Award
Nanophotonic Tunable Arrayed Waveguide Gratings
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2003Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Luxtera, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Luxtera aims to design, develop, implement, test and demonstrate an electrically controllable self-correcting and tunable arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) using nanophotonic high-index contrast waveguides. This new approach should result in order ofmagnitude improvements over current state-of-the-art technology in the following key parameters: 1) size, 2) ease of packaging, 3) cost, 4) reconfigurability and agility, and 5) power consumption. These tunable AWGs will enable lightweight, affordable,and intelligent multiwavelength optical networks for mobile platforms.
Technology keywords
Not reported