SBIR/STTR Research Award
Active Low-Voltage Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Modulator
Award amount
$239,646Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Critical Frequency Design, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2023-08-18
- Contract end date
- 2025-03-10
- UEI
- E2DHYME6B1T6
- Solicitation number
- 23.1
- Topic code
- N231-010
Research abstract
Microwave photonics (MWP) offers many advantages for analog signal processing: operation across large frequency ranges with wide bandwidths, low-loss signal transport via optical fiber with excellent immunity to electromagnetic interference, low return loss and high isolation with switches and circulators, among many others. But the conversion of an electrical signal to an optical signal has historically been so poor, it has kept MWP from being implemented. An electro-optic modulator must have strong conversion efficiency, low insertion loss, a flat frequency response, and a high optical power threshold to enable the many possible applications of MWP systems.
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.
- Chip-Scale Optical Receivers for Communications
- Ultrahigh-Dynamic Range Photonic-Assisted Direct Digitization Receiver
- DIGITAL ENGINEERING– Integration of Fiber Optics Systems Design, Supportability, and Maintainability
- Phase II Active Low-Voltage Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Modulator
- Fiber Optic Cable for Radio Frequency Over Fiber Links
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Active Low-Voltage Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Modulator
- Active Low-Voltage Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Modulator
- Active Low-Voltage Modulators
Research funding history
13 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2020–2025). Reported award amounts total $10,360,551. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Defense