PHOTONWARES CORP — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N212-106

PHOTONWARES CORP — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$139,959
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
N212-106
Solicitation
21.2
NAICS
Place of performance
MA
Period
2021-09-09 → 2022-03-14

Description

Photonwares Corporation proposes a new fiber optical switch configuration that can meet the required program performance specifications.  The innovation is an electro-optical drift compensation switch design that will significantly advance the state-of-the-art. The design is based on our over 20 years of commercial expertise on electro-optical switches and their driving electronics development.  A unique advantage of the proposed program is our fast-turn- in-house fabrication to validate the design concept.    We will perform a design and analysis of the proposed approach as well as build a scaled-down prototype to demonstrate the feasibility in Phase I.  In Phase II we will produce an appropriate number of fully functional prototype switches to provide performance metrics and marketing feedback.