SBIR/STTR Research Award
Three-Photon, Compact Rydberg Radio Receiver
Award amount
$1,499,978Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- FREEDOM PHOTONICS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2021-03-26
- Contract end date
- 2022-09-26
- UEI
- FQ98KK1G9199
- Solicitation number
- 20.A
- Topic code
- AF20A-T002
Research abstract
In this program, Freedom Photonics will develop a novel RF sensor based on quantum physics. Freedom Photonics will utilize and further develop its DFB laser platforms in the infrared for use in this RF atomic sensor in both military and commercial applications. The atomic nature of the RF sensor being developed provides benefits over traditional technologies such as reducing CSWAP while improving critical performance metrics such as bandwidth and sensitivity. The end goal will be a demonstration of a compact, atom-based RF sensor. Freedom Photonics has consistently demonstrated world class performance laser products and optical system assemblies that are critical to the performance of quantum sensors.
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.
- High- Efficiency Kw-class 1550 nm Steerable Diffraction-Limited Laser Diode Arrays for Energy Web Dominance
- High-Speed Optical Fiber Data-Links for Space-Based Cryogenic Read-Out Integrated Circuits
- 1790nm tunable laser for VOC monitoring
- GeSiSn Avalanche Photodiode Arrays for High-Sensitivity SWIR Imaging Applications
- High Efficiency kW-class 1550 nm Steerable Diffraction-Limited Laser Diode Arrays for Energy Web Dominance
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Magnetic reference sensor for GPS-free navigation
- SiN-based heterogeneous PIC platform around 670 nm
- Entangled Short-wave Infrared (En-SWIR) Photon Source
- Compact Heading Error Free Scalar (CHEFS) Magnetometer
- Fiber-laser based Mobile Atom Sensor (FiMAS)
Research funding history
196 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2023). Reported award amounts total $74,583,672. 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 Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture