SBIR/STTR Research Award
Pulsed ultra-bright photon pair source for synchronization and entanglement swapping
Award amount
$149,967Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Advanced Research, Inc., dba AdvR, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2020-06-16
- Contract end date
- 2020-11-16
- UEI
- W5BTMLDNALW6
- Solicitation number
- 20.A
- Topic code
- AF20A-T004
Research abstract
The overall goal of this Air Force effort is to develop and deliver efficient, single-pass quantum optical waveguide sources generating entangled photon pairs for use in high-rate long-distance quantum computing or quantum communications networks. The new devices will produce pulsed polarization-entangled photon pairs with high emission rate, low attenuation, and pure spectral properties necessary for synchronization and entanglement swapping, providing the key technology required for deployment of space-to-ground links and future construction of a global quantum network. An intermediate goal is to configure the waveguide sources for pulsed operation to enable synchronization for use in the Starfire Optical Range for testing entanglement distribution through atmosphere using adaptive optics. The waveguide-based technology is compact, robust, and power efficient for deployment in the field and on space-based platforms.
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
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Pulsed ultra-bright photon pair source for synchronization and entanglement swapping
- Quantum-Entangled Ensemble Network (QuEEN)
- Real-time polarization compensation and rapid Bell-state analysis through long-distance quantum channels
- Phase-Stable Interferometric Time-bin Entanglement (PSITE)
- Quantum Entanglement on Drones
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