SBIR/STTR Research Award
Heterogeneously integrated visible photonic integrated circuit platform with high responsivity photodetectors
Award amount
$149,952Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- NEXUS PHOTONICS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2023-07-25
- Contract end date
- 2024-09-02
- UEI
- GWGLE6NTKKX8
- Solicitation number
- STTR_23_P1
- Topic code
- T8
Research abstract
We propose to improve, refine and mature Nexus proprietary heterogeneous SiN based platform to improve the short-wavelength propagation losses, and integrate high-responsivity/high-quantum efficiency photodetectors in visible in a wafer-scale process for NASA needs and infusion into existing and upcoming instruments.
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
- III/V Nonlinear Sources for Entanglement and Squeezing
- 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
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