AOSENSE, INC. — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: AF20A-T001

AOSENSE, INC. — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

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Amount
$149,856
Agency
Department of Defense · Air Force
Program / Phase
STTR · Phase I
Topic
AF20A-T001
Solicitation
20.A
NAICS
Place of performance
CA
Period
2020-06-15 → 2020-11-15

Description

High-performance microwave atomic clocks have broad applications, both for military and civilian uses.  A low-phase-noise microwave frequency oscillator/synthesizer is necessary to ensure the high performance of these microwave clocks.  A power-hungry conventional low-phase-noise microwave frequency oscillator/synthesizer circuit usually limits the reduction of the power consumption in these atomic clocks.  AOSense proposes to combine recent development of sub-sampling phase-locked loop (SSPLL) in microwave integrated circuit design with our expertise in microwave atomic clocks to demonstrate a low-power, low-phase-noise microwave SSPLL circuit, which will enable low-SWaP microwave atomic clocks for quantum timing applications.