VECTOR ATOMIC INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: HR001119S0035-04
VECTOR ATOMIC INC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $1,498,814
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- HR001119S0035-04
- Solicitation
- DARPA SBIR HR001119S0035-04
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2020-02-03 → 2022-02-02
Description
Vector Atomic, NIST, and OctoSig will design, build, and demonstrate a time transfer module capable of synchronizing mobile assets to better than 10 fs. The Heterodyne Integrated Photonics Package for Optical Synchronization (HIPPOS) module will use NIST’s established two-way optical time transfer scheme, which is insensitive to signal dropouts and turbulence and compensates for relative motion between moving platforms. HIPPO’s integrated design minimizes optical components and employs a low-risk integrated photonics approach that supports aggressive miniaturization, low-cost manufacturing, and high reliability.