Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Highly Integrated System for True Time Delay Optical Beamforming Phased Arrays
Agreement Number:
1000695
Agreement Value:
$132,550.00
Agreement Date:
Mar 22, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025
Description:
This project will address key issues encountered with conventional electronic beamforming networks (BFN) used in space-based Radio-Frequency phased array antennas, popular in recent low cost, large, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation projects. We will design and fabricate a photonic integrated circuit to implement an innovative BFN architecture. A higher level of integration in photonic circuits leads to smaller BFN dimensions and lower cost. It will implement also true time delay within the BFN, which eliminates frequency specific behavior of beam shaping. Large bandwidth performances will be much improved over wide scan angles for operations in LEO. The high-level of integration will be enabled by wavelength division multiplexing architectures.
Organization:
National Research Council Canada
Expected Results:
In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.
Location:
Hamilton, Ontario, CA L8S 4M1
Reference Number:
172-2022-2023-Q4-1000695
Agreement Type:
Grant
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
119035988
Recipient Type:
Academia
Recipient's Legal Name:
McMaster University
Federal Riding Name:
Hamilton West–Ancaster–Dundas
Federal Riding Number:
35038
Program:
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives
Program Purpose:
Collaborate on multiparty research and development programs to catalyze transformative, high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for game-changing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs in priority areas.
NAICS Code:
541710