SBIR/STTR Research Award
Transportable Rugged Crystalline Silicon Reference (TRuCR)
Award amount
$149,896Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- AOSENSE, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2020-06-15
- Contract end date
- 2020-11-15
- UEI
- C185QEUVTTM6
- Solicitation number
- 20.A
- Topic code
- AF20A-T001
Research abstract
Crystalline silicon cavities serve as ultralow-phase-noise optical local oscillators for optical atomic frequency standards and can support the realization of optical timescales. While a JILA/PTB team has built and tested several silicon cavities over the past decade, similar cavities are not readily available to other potential users. We propose to combine AOSense’s expertise in laser-frequency stabilization and optomechanical, thermal, and packaging engineering together with University of Colorado Boulder’s expertise in building silicon cavities to assess the feasibility and plan the development of a transportable, rugged, silicon cavity.
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.
- Advanced Narrow-linewidth Tunable Laser for Rydberg Sensors (ANTLRS)
- Advanced Laser-Pumped Atomic Clock Architecture (ALPACA)
- QuAIS phase II
- Robust Atom Interferometry Laser System (RAILS)
- Low-Power Microwave Oscillator (LMO)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Compact, high-performance optical clockwork for quantum timing
- Robust and portable optical oscillators with 10^-15-level stability
- Transportable Rugged Crystalline Silicon Reference (TRuCR)
- Robust and low-SWaP Laser Sources for Optical Atomic Clocks
Research funding history
59 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2025). Reported award amounts total $30,653,327. 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 Homeland Security, National Science Foundation