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Programmable Optical Logic Gates for All-Optical Processing

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA9550-04-C-0066
Agency Tracking Number: F2-1969
Amount: $0.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2004
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
2851 Commerce Street
Blacksburg, VA 24060
United States
DUNS: 627132913
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Roger Duncan
 Principal Investigator
 (540) 557-5893
 duncanr@lunainnovations.com
Business Contact
 Jeffrey Hammel
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Phone: (540) 953-4261
Email: keena@lunainnovations.com
Research Institution
 University of Pennsylvania
 Christine Gundersen
 
3451 Walnut Street, Room P221, Franklin Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States

 (215) 746-0234
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

Luna Innovations proposes to demonstrate a simple all-optical processor by developing programmable optical logic gates based on the highly integrated photonic switch platform developed during the Phase I. These logic gates, once developed, can be assembled according to the principles of digital electronic design to construct a binary processor that performs functions such as add, subtract, increment, decrement, NAND, OR, XOR, etc. During the Phase I, Luna Innovations and its partner overcame significant hurdles to demonstrate the viability of a highly integrated photonic switch through electromagnetic modeling and by successfully patterning the device on the necessary scale (photonic lattice constants smaller than the wavelength of light) for true monolithic integration. Because of the novelty of the approach, the photonic switch is capable of integration several orders of magnitude more dense than any other known optical platform. This dense packaging capability is an essential enabler for practical optical computing. Luna will leverage this success and experience for the Phase II to design the proposed optical logic gates. Luna's partner will concentrate on the fabrication of the structures using the processing parameters developed during the Phase I while in parallel optimizing a nanoimprinting process that will support volume manufacturing of the devices.

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