SBIR/STTR Research Award
III/V Nonlinear Sources for Entanglement and Squeezing
Award amount
$149,985Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- NEXUS PHOTONICS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2024-08-02
- Contract end date
- 2025-09-08
- UEI
- GWGLE6NTKKX8
- Solicitation number
- STTR-2024-Phase 1
- Topic code
- T8
Research abstract
We propose to develop chip-scale squeezer and chip-scale pump laser that can be co-packaged in a typical butterfly like package for significant size, weight and power (SWaP) improvement to enable squeezed light source quantum sensing applications. Squeezed-light injection into the LIGO interferometer is now regularly implemented to achieve quantum-enhanced sensitivity. Likewise, by injecting squeezed light into a classical sensor, the sensitivity can be improved beyond the classical limit.
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.
- Application specific PICs operating around 780 nm towards MPWs
- Spectroscopy-grade lasers and PICs operating around 674 nm
- High Power VNIR Laser Array in SiN
- Spectroscopy-grade lasers and PICs operating around 689 nm
- Heterogeneously integrated visible photonic integrated circuit platform with high responsivity photodetectors
Research funding history
14 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2018–2025). Reported award amounts total $6,513,550. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense