DAS PHOTONICS
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Pic legend 1: RF optical delay line
Pic legend 2: Photonic Rf analogue link for space applications
Pic legend 3: Rack mounted photonic RF analogue link up to 40 GHz
Pic legend 4: Ruggedized RF optical delay line
General information
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Company nameDAS PHOTONICS
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AdressCamino de Vera, s/n, Edificio 8F. 2ªPlanta, 46022 Valencia
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Turnover3.40 million EUR in year 2023
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Employees67 in year 2023
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SMEYES
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Contact Info:
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Phone+34963556150
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Emaildas@dasphotonics.com
Activity and Skills
DAS PHOTONICS was created in 2005 as a spin-off company from the Nanophotonic Technology Centre (NTC - Polytechnic University of Valencia, (http://www.ntc.upv.es/), focused on the development of innovative value-adding products based on our proprietary photoncs technology. Our products are at the forefront of R & D in Photonics for Space, Defence and Aeronautics. DAS is recognized internationally as a leading company in the field of RF-photonics for Defense and Space applications. The company exploits the advantages of photonics technology to offer selutions with improved bandwidth, mass and power consumption, compared with electronic/RF implementations.
Fos Space, DAS develops solutions for both. ground segment and on-board systems, exploiting the benefits provided by photonic technology, such as significant mass, size and power consumption reduction, instantaneous bandwidth (from near DC to above 40 Ghz) phase stability, long transmission distance as well as EM immunity. The current applications developed by DAS Photonics are in the line of photonics links for digital and anologue signals remoting, multi-frequency conversion and antenna beamforming.
Contracts for Big Science facilities
[ESA]
KaBs
(2020 - 2023)
Electro-Photonic Transceiver BB for Ground Stations Application
To deliver a photonic sampler able to work in both Rx and Tx configurations for the sampling of Ka-band signals, to validate its performance against requirements Perform system validation with digital processor.
[ESA]
4000120740/17/NL/AI 2017 Optical Harness for Future L-band Radiometer
(2017)
[ESA]
4000122614/17/NL/FG Single String Photonic Payload (SSPP) and Multi String Photonic Payload (MSPP)
(2017)
[ESA - INTA
]
Exomars Proposal for the development of the RAMAN laser unit
(2013)
[ESA]
AO/1-6034/09/F/MOS - future Architecture of ESA Deep Space Stations for Enhanced Mission Support. Reference: GRST-SYST-GST-SOW-1002-OPS-GSS
(2009)
[ESO]
Front End Integration Centre Local Oscillator Photonic Reference Systhesizer Test Module (LOTRM)
(2008)
Generation of mm-Wave LO by using photonic harmonic conversion techniques (27.3 GHz till 124.34 GHz) in order to be used as test equipment for validating the ALMA radiotelescope front-ends (Atacama, Chile) - Reference 19766/ESO/08/17259/ YWE
Relevant R&D projects
[HORIZON-CL4-2022-RESILIENCE-01
] -Materials for a next-generation (nano-)opto-electro-mechanical systems
(MAGNIFIC
)
(2022)
Establish a new Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical (NOEMS) technology platform based on nanocrystalline silicon and piezoelectric materials. Validate such NOEMS technology in relevant applications such as 5G and satellite communication in the GHz frequency range. The objective is to realise fully packaged device units that can be tested in a relevant environment to demonstrate the TRL5 of the technology.
[AVI - PROYECTOS ESTRATEGICOS EN COOPERACION
] -Next generation smart metasurfaces based on additive manufacturing for strategic applications in telecommunications and biomedicine
(METASMART
)
(2022)
Development of new production processes based on additive manufacturing techniques to provide innovative solutions to several technological challenges such as the development of new non-invasive surgical techniques or the optimisation of wireless data communication without energy consumption for the best performance in the Internet of Things-IoT (TRL4).
[HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01
] -On-chip tomographic microscopy: a paraDIgm Shift for RevolUtionizing lab-on-a-chiP bioimaging technology
(DISRUPT
)
(2022)
DISRUPT aims to revolutionise the field of biomedical imaging by developing a radically new lab-on-chip technology: integrated tomographic microscopy. It will be made possible by leveraging the science of photonics and wireless tomography on-chip, in combination with microfluidics and artificial intelligence (TRL4).
[CDTI
] -BROADBAND INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR SPECTRAL MONITORING AND COUNTERMEASUREMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND RF SIGNALS
(STAMINA
)
(2021 - 2023)
Development, integration and validation of a set of critical infrastructure protection
suite’ systems for the protection of critical infrastructures.
composed of: 1) a C-ECM system encompassing the necessary communications countermeasure capabilities, based on the jammer architecture being able to jam faster Frequency Hopping signals together with a new countermeasure functionality against UAV (C-UAV). 2) a C-ESM system for signal localisation 3) a 12-channel R-ESM system. Thus achieving a complete cooperative integrated system for detection, identification, and countermeasure of threats, spectral monitoring and countermeasure of communications and RF signals, increasing the performance compared to traditional solutions on the market.
[EDIDP-SME-2020-82
] -Photonics-bAsed SIGINT payloaD for Class II RPAS
(SIGNAL
)
(2021)
Development of a new ESM/ELINT system (<50 kg, <1 sqf, <500 w) capable of being installed in Class II RPAS systems with all the information gathering capabilities of DAS PHOTONICS EW systems (40 GHz IBW and DF accuracy better than 1.5° rms) to successfully integrate the SIGNAL payload into a Class II RPAS platform.
[CDTI - Programa MISIONES
] -Quantum computing and its application to strategic industries
(CUCO
)
(2021)
CUCO project aims to advance the state of the art of quantum algorithms and apply this knowledge to a series of proofs of concept in different strategic sectors of the Spanish economy such as Energy, Finance, Space, Defence and Logistics.
[H2020-SPACE-2018-2020
] -Photo-Digital Channelizer for Flexible Digital High Throughput Satellites
(PhLEXSAT
)
(2020 - 2023)
PhLEXSAT will increase the maturity level of several key photonic devices and modules to TRL5, designing, fabricating and testing 1) Photonic sampler, 2) ultra-low jitter photonic clock for precise sampling, 3) Photonic-assisted ADC and DAC for digital channelizers for Q/V-band operation and 4) onboard digital processing firmware. Miniaturization will be achieved by fabricating and integrating a modulator photonic
integrated circuit (PIC) and high-linear photodiode PIC with electronics in the photonic ADC and DAC components. PhLEXSAT will integrate and demonstrate such building blocks in a test bed proving the suitability of the proposed architecture for Tbps-like, software defined HTS payloads with hundreds of channels with flexible bandwidth allocation up to
1GHz/channel, demonstrating a flexible photo-digital channelizer for high capacity reconfigurable payloads, enabling flexible frequency plans and channelization and dynamic coverage for Ku/Ka/Q/V operation.
[CDTI
] -INTERFERIDOR CON SEGUIMIENTO DE SALTO EN FRECUENCIA DE BANDA ANCHA
(HOFER
)
(2018 - 2020)
Sistema jammer de RF de banda ancha, capaz de interferir comunicaciones que empleen una modulación de salto en frecuencia y que presente la posibilidad de modificar automáticamente sus parámetros para ajustarse dinámicamente a cada situación.
[CDTI
] -DEVELOPMENT OF BROADBAND ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICES
(DEOBA
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(2018 - 2021)
Design, fabrication and the establishment of the methodology for volume production of Mach-Zehnder type electro-optical (EO) modulators based on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (LN) on silicon (CMOS compatible). The modulators, with ultra-wideband (> 50 GHz) and low insertion loss and bias voltage (Vp), are manufactured using proprietary photonics technology from DAS Photonics.
[ARES 2021 - SPACE 2018 - 2020
] -Sofware Defined Space Optical Data Highway
(SODaH
)
(2018 - 2021)
Photonic Modulation, Routing and Digitization demonstrator for OISL LEO (TRL5). LNA, Modulator-Receiver, MUX/DEMUX units
[Clean Sky 2 Call for Proposals 06
] -Combustion species Imaging Diagnostics for Aero-engine Research
(CIDAR
)
(2018 - 2021)
Establish a world-leading capability in the non-intrusive measurement and 2D imaging of nvPM/soot and CO2 concentrations in aero-engine exhaust. Non-intrusive planar tomographic measurement of CO2 will be based
on calibration-free Fibre-Laser Absorption Spectroscopy and soot measurements will be based on laser-induced incandescence (LII).
[H2020-SPACE-2018-2020
] -Miniaturised Photonics Enabled Next Generation SAR
(RETINA
)
(2018 - 2022)
Multi-carrier laser module, Integrated beam optical X-band Transmitter, Switched TTD optical beamformer Network, Integrated Antenna optical X-band Receiver Airbus: Array Antenna Element at X-band , Photoreceiver at X-band & Fiber-optic distribution system
[H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2020
] -SIlicon Optomechanical optoellectronic Microwave Oscillator
(SIOMO
)
(2018)
Uses a silicon integrated optoelectronic oscillator to be implemented
in a local oscillator sub-system in a downconverter sub-system of DAS. A study of the feasibility to be tranferred to the space sector.
[ESA
] -ARTES 5.1. AO/1-5395/07/NL/EM –2012- Optical Multi-Frequency Conversion Unit for Broadband Transparent Analogue Repeaters
[ESA
] -ARTES 5.2 & ARTES 3.4. -2011 -IoV - Optical RF distribution Flight Demonstrator
[ESA
] -ARTES 5.1. -2011 - Opto-Microwave Wideband Reconfigurable Reciever
[ESA
] -TRP AO/5809/08/NL/CP - 2009 - electro-photonic ADC
... Up to 18 ESA projects (TRP, GSTP, GSP, ARTES...)