SBIR/STTR Research Award
Active Low-Voltage Modulators
Award amount
$139,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-08-18
- Contract end date
- 2024-02-15
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- 23.1
- Topic code
- N231-010
Research abstract
We propose the development of Active Low-Voltage Modulators (ALVM) based on the thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic-integrated circuit (PIC) platform to realize enhanced radio-frequency (RF) links that are compact, efficient, and can be scalably manufactured using a commercial wafer-scale production capability. The proposed modulator design combines a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) with an integrated pair of low-biased Mach-Zender interferometers (MZIs) in a push-pull configuration to enable RF-photonic links with low noise figure (NF) and high bandwidth.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Off-axis Laser Event Recorder (OALER)
- TFLN Interconnect for Gigabit-rate Environment Ruggedization (TIGER)
- Advanced Ruggedized Modulators for Onboard Receivers (ARMOR)
- Modular Bypass Valve for Solid Fuel Ramjets
- Bio-inspired Energy Dissipating Structures for Enhanced Airdrop Capabilities
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Phase II Active Low-Voltage Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Modulator
- Active Low-Voltage Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Modulator
- Active Low-Voltage Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Modulator
- Active Low-Voltage Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Modulator
Research funding history
1,763 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $698,949,224. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency