VESCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: We propose to develop extremely compact and rugged laser systems for emerging cold-atom-ba

VESCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$148,975
Agency
Department of Defense · Air Force
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Solicitation
2014.1
NAICS
Place of performance
CO
Period
2014-06-01 → 2015-03-01

Description

We propose to develop extremely compact and rugged laser systems for emerging cold-atom-based sensors of time, gravity, and inertial forces. Our goal is to integrate distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers, semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA), high-speed detectors, phase/frequency detectors, phase modulators, and optical routing, splitting and combining circuits onto GaAs substrates resulting in chip-sized photonic integrated circuits for cold-atom and other spectroscopic-based sensors. In Phase I we will develop laser systems and electronics that will serve as a precursor to fully integrated photonic integrated circuit.