PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N231-010
PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $139,999
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N231-010
- Solicitation
- 23.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2023-08-18 → 2024-02-15
Description
We propose the development of Active Low-Voltage Modulators (ALVM) based on the thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic-integrated circuit (PIC) platform to realize enhanced radio-frequency (RF) links that are compact, efficient, and can be scalably manufactured using a commercial wafer-scale production capability. The proposed modulator design combines a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) with an integrated pair of low-biased Mach-Zender interferometers (MZIs) in a push-pull configuration to enable RF-photonic links with low noise figure (NF) and high bandwidth.