Aeluma Secures U.S. Navy, NASA Contracts
High-performance semiconductor company Aeluma has secured contracts with NASA and the U.S. Navy that could accelerate development and commercialization for next-generation quantum and sensing systems, the company said.
The contract with NASA will advance Aeluma's efforts to commercialize entangled photon sources, supporting quantum computing and communication systems. By integrating nonlinear optical materials on CMOS standard 200-mm silicon, Aeluma provides a path to scale quantum photonic circuits while meeting NASA's SWaP (size, weight, and power) requirements.
The Navy contract follows Aeluma’s demonstration of wafer-scale integration of the nonlinear optical materials aluminum gallium arsenide (AlGaAs) onto CMOS silicon photonics-standards 200-mm diameter wafers, in collaboration with Thorlabs Crystalline Materials.
The contract with the U.S. Navy will support Aeluma's low SWaP imaging sensors for next-generation submarine systems. Leveraging its ability to directly integrate SWIR sensors on silicon, Aeluma enables multi-spectrum visible + SWIR sensing in a single chip. This technology, according to Aeluma, is also directly aligned with its commercial roadmap across mobile, AR/VR, robotics, and industrial sensing.
Aeluma secured an additional contract with the U.S. Navy last month for the development of high-speed photodetectors. Earlier this year, the company became a full industry member of the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), one of nine manufacturing innovation institutes established by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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