SBIR/STTR Research Award
Active Low-voltage Modulators
Award amount
$239,964Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2023Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2023-06-27
- Contract end date
- 2024-09-09
- UEI
- RMG1AZ1ZH8Q7
- Solicitation number
- 23.1
- Topic code
- N231-075
Research abstract
Interferometric fiber-optic gyroscopes (IFOGs) are a key component within an inertial navigation system, however, current IFOG systems are limited by the unnecessarily large size, weight, and power (SWaP) of the integrated optical chip. To overcome the current limitations, Physical Sciences, Inc. (PSI) will develop Integrated Lithium Niobate chips for Gyroscope Support (I-LiNGS) to enable highly compact, ultra-low drive-voltage (V-p) electro-optic modulators in support of next generation low SWaP IFOGs. To produce the lowest SWaP system PSI will leverage thin-film lithium-niobate (TFLN) that can be scalably manufactured using a commercial wafer-scale production capability. ???????
Technology keywords
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Reduced Integrated Optical Circuits (IOC) Halfwave Voltage (Vpi) for improved Size Weight and Power (SWaP) in Interferometric Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes (
- Reduced Half-Wave Voltage in Integrated Optical Circuits for Interferometric Fiber Optic Gyroscopes
- Integrated Optical Circuit (IOC) with Reduced Half-Wave Voltage
- Reduced Half-Wave Voltage in Integrated Optical Circuits for Interferometric Fiber Optic Gyroscopes
- Reduced Integrated Optical Circuits (IOC) Half-wave Voltage (Vpi) for improved Size Weight and Power (SWaP) in Interferometric Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes
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