The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a definitive cost-no-fee contract valued at $11,224,020 to the University of California, Santa Barbara to address challenges associated with developing an integrated optical frequency synthesizer under the Direct On-Chip Digital Optical Synthesizer program. Major subcontractors include the University of Colorado, California Institute of Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Southern California, Aurrion Inc., University of Virginia, Kinghorn Consulting, and Ligentec SA. The objective of this effort is to realize an integrated optical frequency synthesizer on a single silicon chip with unprecedented reductions in cost, size, weight, and power through the development of a compact low-power direct on-chip digital optical synthesizer capable of converting radio frequency to optical frequency with programmable resolution of one part in 1014 across a 50 nanometer bandwidth centered at 1550 nanometers.
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