SBIR/STTR Research Award
Robust, compact, high brightness entangled photon-pair source for space applications based on periodically poled nonlinear waveguides
Award amount
$111,463Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Advanced Research, Inc., dba AdvR, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2020-06-26
- Contract end date
- 2021-03-29
- UEI
- W5BTMLDNALW6
- Solicitation number
- 20.1
- Topic code
- A20-085
Research abstract
The overall goal of this SBIR program is to develop waveguide-based, robust, high-rate, entangled photon pair sources suitable for use in space. These waveguides, fabricated at AdvR utilize periodic poling for efficient quasi-phase matched (QPM) spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) of high energy pump photons into two lower energy signal and idler photons. AdvR’s approach is enabled by a demonstrated expertise in developing and manufacturing periodically-poled waveguides optimized for specific nonlinear interactions in conjunction with a demonstrated track record of system level packaging, environmental testing, and quantum characterization of SPDC sources.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Efficient Narrowband Entangled Photon Sources for Interfacing with Quantum Memory
- Visible to Near-Infrared I/Q Modulators
- Waveguide-based, Visible to Near IR Electro-optic Switches
- High-Repetition-Rate Pump Sources Tailored for High-Purity Entanglement Generation
- Waveguide-Based, high heralding efficiency biphoton source
Awards with the same topic code
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- Quantum Sources and Detectors for Space Applications
- Quantum Sciences Components for Space Applications
Research funding history
122 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1999–2025). Reported award amounts total $45,302,877. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, Environmental Protection Agency