Cooperative Agreement DEAR0000538

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded Opticslah, LLC, a minority-owned small business, a $256,499 project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a swept external cavity quantum cascade laser (SWEPT-ECQCL) multi-chemical sensor for real-time methane flare combustion monitoring. The project began on July 10, 2023 and is scheduled for completion by July 9, 2024. Opticslah has previous experience building optical sensors and...

The National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $499,999 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to demonstrate an on-chip infrared spectroscopy system. The goal is to develop a miniaturized, ultra-sensitive, and low-noise infrared sensing platform that can compete with conventional Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) technologies while operating at room temperature. The key technical approach involves fabricating an...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy awarded Blue Sky Measurements, Inc. a $499,500 project grant to develop an "optical NIR fixed-position passive scanner for methane detection and measurement." The grant was awarded under Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0001954, Topic T, on June 21, 2021 with a completion date of December 20, 2022. Through this funding, Blue Sky Measurements will deliver an optical scanner that utilizes near infrared...

Raytum Photonics LLC was awarded a $199,992 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop a tunable fiber laser system in the visible wavelength range for photocathode drive. The funding supports Raytum Photonics' work under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) through November 13, 2022. The Office of Science aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economics through scientific...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Raytum Photonics LLC, a minority-owned small business located in Sterling, Virginia. The grant supports the development of a highly sensitive slope sensor for surface metrology using an external cavity laser. This research project aims to advance scientific understanding and technological capabilities in the fields of optics, laser systems,...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $360,000 to President and Fellows of Harvard College through July 31, 2025 to develop mid-infrared reconfigurable pulse generators under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award supports research to realize a new type of laser that emits multiple wavelengths of light simultaneously as precise trains of ultrashort light pulses. This multi-wavelength pulsed laser output would enable...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program totaling $256,000 will fund the development of an optimized ion mobility spectrometry system for distributed chemical sensing without the use of radioactive ionization sources. The awardee, Sensit Ventures Inc. of Davis, California, will establish an experimental and theoretical framework to miniaturize differential mobility spectrometry technology for analytical-quality chemical...

This three-year, $525,682 National Science Foundation project grant will support the development of ultrafast cavity-enhanced two-dimensional spectroscopy for coherent control experimental design at the University of Georgia. Principal Investigator Melanie Reber and her students will build a high-resolution, ultrafast two-dimensional spectrometer to characterize vibrational and electronic coupling in molecules. This instrument will use frequency comb lasers, cavity enhancement, and dual-comb...

This $192,164 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of a highly compact mid-infrared spectrometer based on a single tunable van der Waals heterostructure photodetector. The University of Massachusetts will investigate light-matter interactions in emerging 2D materials and demonstrate tunable photoresponse in van der Waals heterostructures. Researchers will characterize response matrices under bias and...

Bridger Photonics, Inc. was awarded a $4.57 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to scale up methane leak detection and quantification technologies. Over a three year period ending in February 2024, Bridger Photonics will further develop and automate tools for job planning, data processing, management and predictive algorithm capabilities to advance their disruptive methane monitoring system. They will finalize a second...