ADVR, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A20-085
ADVR, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $111,463
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A20-085
- Solicitation
- 20.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MT
- Period
- 2020-06-26 → 2021-03-29
Description
The overall goal of this SBIR program is to develop waveguide-based, robust, high-rate, entangled photon pair sources suitable for use in space. These waveguides, fabricated at AdvR utilize periodic poling for efficient quasi-phase matched (QPM) spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) of high energy pump photons into two lower energy signal and idler photons. AdvR’s approach is enabled by a demonstrated expertise in developing and manufacturing periodically-poled waveguides optimized for specific nonlinear interactions in conjunction with a demonstrated track record of system level packaging, environmental testing, and quantum characterization of SPDC sources.