SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Performance Electro-optic Modulator Designed for Military Aircraft
Award amount
$239,915Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2026Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Photonic Systems, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2025-10-14
- Contract end date
- 2026-04-14
- UEI
- QGYXKJ7BLVL5
- Solicitation number
- 25.B
- Topic code
- N25B-T029
Research abstract
Photonic Systems, Inc. and Harvard University propose to develop Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulators that have lower V-pi at 10 GHz than ever previously demonstrated and that can withstand the large input voltage spikes produced by electrostatic discharge, lightning, or a large nearby signal transmitter. Additionally, we propose to demonstrate a modulator bias control circuit that can maintain near-ideal quadrature operation even when the modulator is subjected to rapid changes in temperature.
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.
- HF High Power Interference Canceller
- Integrated Photonic Modulator on Chip
- Broadband Recovery of Low-Power Signals in Presence of Multiple, Uncooperative, Loud Signals
- Innovative SF-STAR Radios for Tactical Environments
- Field-Configurable Modulator Array (FCMA)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Advanced Ruggedized Modulators for Onboard Receivers (ARMOR)
- High Performance Electro-optic Modulator Designed for Military Aircraft
Research funding history
64 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2026). Reported award amounts total $21,857,370. 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, National Science Foundation