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