What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technologies for Integrated Photonic Oscillators position at Zintellect?
This project will support our ongoing efforts to bring the exciting field of optical frequency division to the form factor of an integrated chip. Optical frequency division uses optical frequency combs (OFCs) to divide the frequency of an optical frequency reference (such as an optical resonator or optical atomic transition) to a microwave output signal, whose frequency is usable in conventional circuits. One of the enduring challenges in bringing this technology to the chip scale is generating on-chip OFCs with repetition rates that are sufficiently small (e.g., <40 GHz) to work with conventional electronics while simultaneously minimizing the required power (i.e., optical power in the case of microresonator OFCs and RF power in the case of electro-optic modulator OFCs). In this project, the student will contribute towards research in generating microwaves with frequencies <40 GHz using on-chip OFCs that require practical amounts of power. This project may involve characterizing OFC devices, building fiber-optic characterization circuits, making precision frequency noise measurements, and other related tasks.
ARL’s Army Research Directorate (ARD) focuses on exploiting concept development, discovery, technology development, and transition of the most promising disruptive science and technology to deliver to the Army fundamentally advantageous science-based capabilities through laboratory’s 11 research competencies. This intramural research directorate also manages the laboratory’s essential research programs, which are flagship research efforts focused on delivering defined outcomes.
The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army. Scientists and Engineers at the CCDC Army Research Laboratory (ARL) help shape and execute the Army's program for meeting the challenge of developing technologies that will support Army forces in meeting future operational needs by pursuing scientific research and technological developments in diverse fields such as: applied mathematics, atmospheric characterization, simulation and human modeling, digital/optical signal processing, nanotechnology, material science and technology, multifunctional technology, combustion processes, propulsion and flight physics, communication and networking, and computational and information sciences.
Materials (and related manufacturing methods) and devices intended for achieving photonic, electronic, and quantum-based effects.
Questions about this opportunity? Please email ARLFellowship@orau.org
