2012

Feb:  Morton Photonics awarded a $515k, 1 year DARPA SBIR Phase IIb contract to continue R&D on 'Highly-Integrable Microresonators with Fast Tunable Group Delay for Broadband RF True Time Delay’, to commercialize devices and transition to the Missile Defense Agency program 'Photonics TDU for Radar True Time Delay'. 

2011

October:  Dr Paul Morton presentation; 'Practical Silicon Photonics True-Time-Delay Devices for Phased Array Systems' at the IEEE Avionics, Fiber Optics and Photonics Technology (AVFOP) Conference 2011, ThD2 San Diego, CA (www.photonicsconferences.org/AVFOP2011/)

August:   Morton Photonics awarded a 6 month $100k SBIR Phase I contract with the Missile Defence Agency: 'Photonics TDU for Radar True Time Delay'.

June:  Morton Photonics presentation, 'Low-Cost Ultra-Low-Noise Hybrid-Integrated Laser', Tuesday 12 to 12:20pm, at the Navy Opportunity Forum, Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, Alexandria, VA.  Booth # A404.

June:  Dr. Paul Morton presentation; 'Silicon Photonics Devices for True-Time-Delay in Phased Array Systems' at the Advanced Microelectronics and Photonics for Space (AMAPS) Symposium and SBIR Workshop, San Diego, CA (www.amaps.net).

Jan:  Dr. Paul Morton, Morton Photonics C.E.O. and C.T.O elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in recognition "for contributions to optical transmitters".

2010

Nov:  Morton Photonics patent issued, ‘US 7,831,119 B2’ ‘Tunable Optical Group Delay Based on Microresonator Structures’.

June:  Morton Photonics awarded an STTR Phase II contract from DARPA MTO; ' Miniature Silicon WDM Modulators for Analog Fiber-Optics Links ', together with its collaborator Prof. Michal Lipson and the Nanophotonics group at Cornell University.  This Phase II STTR provides a maximum of $750,000 over a 24 month period.  Devices will be fabricated by the Cornell University Nanophotonics group.

March:  Morton Photonics awarded an SBIR Phase II contract from the Navy; ‘Low-Cost, Ultra-Low-Noise Hybrid-Integrated-Laser’.  The initial Phase II contract is for a 1 year program with $300,000 funding, additional funding based on program milestones and an identified transition to a Navy acquisition program.

2009

July:  Morton Photonics patent issued, ‘US 7,558,450 B2’ Microwave Photonic Delay Line with Separate Tuning of Optical Carrier’.

March:  Morton Photonics awarded an SBIR Phase II contract from DARPA MTO; ‘Highly-Integrable Microresonators with Fast Tunable Group Delay for Broadband RF True Time Delay’.  The contract is for $750,000 over a two year program.  Devices will be fabricated by the Cornell University Nanophotonics group.

March:  Morton Photonics awarded an SBIR Phase I contract from the Navy; ‘Ultra-Low-Cost Low-Noise Hybrid-Integrated Laser and SOA Modulator Switch’.  This Phase I contract is for a maximum of $100,000 over a 9 month period.

Jan:  Morton Photonics awarded an STTR Phase I contract from DARPA MTO ; ‘Versatile Miniature Silicon WDM Modulators for Complex Modulation Formats’, together with its collaborator, Professor Jacob Khurgin and the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.  This Phase I STTR contract provides a maximum of $99,000 for the program over an 8 month period.

2008

Jan:  Morton Photonics awarded a BAA 07-18 contract from DARPA MTO; ‘Cavity-Mode-Induced, Tailored-Ultra-High-Speed-Response, Directly Modulated Semiconductor Lasers’.  The contract is for $150,000 over a 12 month period.

2007

Jan:  Morton Photonics awarded its first SBIR contract, Phase I from DARPA MTO; ‘Highly-Integrable Microresonators with Fast Tunable Group Delay for Dynamic RF Phase Control’.  The contract is for $99,000 over a six month period.

2006

Dr. Paul Morton elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) "for fundamental contributions to high-speed optical transmitters and implementation into DWDM transmission systems".