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High Current Photodetector

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contract: W31P4Q-05-C-0190
Agency Tracking Number: 05ST1-0073
Amount: $98,972.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: ST051-007
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2005
Award Year: 2005
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2005-07-05
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2006-05-30
Small Business Information
1335 W. Foothill Blvd.
Azusa, CA 91702
United States
DUNS: 077485527
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 David Scott
 Vice President of RF Engineering
 (626) 969-0681
 dscott@archcomtech.com
Business Contact
 Dorothy Cheer
Title: Accounting Manager
Phone: (626) 969-0681
Email: dcheer@archcomtech.com
Research Institution
 UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
 Paul Yu
 
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0407
La Jolla, CA 92093
United States

 (858) 534-6180
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

For many communication applications, the demand for more bandwidth is a never ending problem. Military system applications often can exceed commercial demands by an order of magnitude or more as SIGINT and IMINT data collection and transmission are keys to our National Security. Optical delivery of RF signals is an increasingly important topic for applications including RF antenna remoting, signal routing, CATV, wireless repeaters and tunnels, in-building coverage, and surveillance and reconnaissance. Communication systems using optical signals are a common approach for both military and commercial applications and advancements made for one application form the foundation for advancements in another application. In recent months, Archcom has recently received a number of requests from a variety of customers regarding high current handling, high linearity photodetectors for a few of the aforementioned applications. These requests were targeting the 20GHz and 40GHz bands. Our existing product at 50GHz was optimized for digital communication systems where achieving a high responsivity/bandwidth product was the primary design goal to create a receiver with the highest sensitivity possible. Archcom's proposal is to modify our world's best commercially available 50GHz waveguide photodetector to improve linearity and current handling capability to address these new customer requests.

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