Cooperative Agreement FA70002020012

OAM Photonics LLC will develop a high-performance, compact, and lightweight 3D light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor under a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The LIDAR sensor aims to enable more affordable drone-based, high-precision mapping applications by leveraging coherent LIDAR detection and silicon photonics technology in an innovative design. The compact form factor sensor...

The Johns Hopkins University received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on March 15, 2021 to support research titled "CAREER: SEEING THROUGH ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE: IMAGE RESTORATION AND UNDERSTANDING USING DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS." The research is funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), which aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through...

This Project Grant award, valued at $400,000, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award supports the development of innovative "snapshot computational imaging" systems that leverage recent advances in metaoptics, or optical devices using sub-wavelength nano-structures, to capture multidimensional information about light interactions with the world. The key objectives of this...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Trustees of Dartmouth College supports the development of new hardware platforms and algorithms to fuse optical and acoustic sensing for enhanced computer vision and computational imaging. The key objectives are to: 1) Design rendering algorithms that can jointly synthesize optical and acoustical information to recover environmental data; 2) Develop...

This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of innovative snapshot computational imaging systems that leverage metaoptics technology. The project, led by Dartmouth College, aims to create computational camera simulators capable of modeling the complex interactions of light across various dimensions, and to leverage these tools to design and build...

This $616,702 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a novel heterogeneous photonic chip solution to enable ultra-high bandwidth, energy-efficient data transmission for artificial intelligence (AI) computing clusters. The key products and services to be delivered include: A highly integrated photonic chip platform that accommodates processing units (CPUs, TPUs, GPUs), high-bandwidth memory, and accelerator/ASIC...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $149,572 to George Mason University to develop a generalizable motion field estimator using neural networks. The goal is to enhance computer vision tasks in long-range imaging, where input images lack stereo information and turbulence introduces motion artifacts that deteriorate performance. The university will pursue three research thrusts. The...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $355,683 to California State University, Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The award supports research aimed at advancing optical technology to further explore the cosmos using gravitational waves. Key deliverables include characterizing and developing techniques to reduce laser light...

Optical Engines, Inc. received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support development of fiber amplifier technology for ultra-large-mode-area ultrafast laser arrays. The project will be completed by March 26, 2023. The award is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and advance...

This $286,520 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a free and open-source software package for high-performance, low-latency computing pipelines with real-time requirements for astronomical adaptive optics (AO). The Compute and Control for Adaptive Optics (CACAO) software toolkit will enable the next generation of AO instruments on large ground-based...