SBIR/STTR Award attributes
We will base our work on Professor Padilla’s seminal and groundbreaking innovation in graphene modulator devices, and combine our expertise to develop, optimize, and demonstrate fast, frequency-agile, stimuli-responsive, and tunable meta-optic micromirror surfaces with integrated nonlinear materials that autonomously protect sensors from damaging EM beams, while allowing unobstructed transmission of non-damaging wavelengths and intensities in the midwave infrared (MWIR: 3 – 5 µm). We will develop novel technology that can dynamically control the electromagnetic (EM) response of photonic devices. For a spatial light modulator (SLM), modifying the surface reflection coefficient without mechanical parts or gratings opens the door for novel sensing possibilities and metamaterials.
