COLDQUANTA, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: SB142-005
COLDQUANTA, INC. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $1,506,253
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- SB142-005
- Solicitation
- 2014.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CO
- Period
- 2015-08-17 → 2018-09-30
Description
ColdQuanta proposes the development, fabrication, testing and demonstration of a free-space microshutter based on MEMS technology. The microshutter head will provide extinction ratios exceeding 70 dB and shutter transition times below 10 us, and it will be smaller than any other free space shutter technology currently available. The proposed shutter leverages prior experience with the successful demonstration of fiber-coupled MEMS shutters for ultra-cold atom applications. Combined with new microfabrication techniques, a design specific to the requirements of future Cold Atom MicroSystems (CAMS) will be demonstrated.