Cooperative Agreement W911NF1920279

This three-year, $222,122 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Stony Brook University to develop new two-dimensional ferroelectric nonlinear metasurface holograms. The goal is to explore atomically thin 2D ferroelectric materials for reconfigurable holographic beam generation and image reconstruction with high conversion efficiency. The research team will design, fabricate, and experimentally characterize 2D ferroelectric holograms to demonstrate nonlinear optical...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $485,000 to Penn State University to develop new nonlinear optical single crystal materials and an open-source modeling package for classical and quantum light generation applications. Specifically, the University will synthesize and characterize promising new nonlinear optical single crystals identified through theoretical modeling and literature reviews. An...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $111,099 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Montana to conduct a comparative study of the high harmonic generation (HHG) spectra of transition metal compounds. The 3-year project aims to leverage advancements in laser technology to better understand the complex electronic structures and chemical properties of transition metal compounds, which have wide-ranging applications in...

This $315,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program award supports research, education, and outreach activities focused on understanding many-body effects in nonperturbative high harmonic generation in solids. The project aims to develop and apply new computational methods to study high harmonic generation in low-dimensional solid materials, with a focus on understanding signatures of topology, spin, polarization, and exciton effects. The...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $600,000 supports research into nonlinear photon interactions in cooperative quantum optical systems from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The award is made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the funding will allow the awardee, President and Fellows of Harvard College operating as Harvard University, to...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), totaling $300,000, will support theoretical research to develop short-pulsed ultraviolet laser sources. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award will promote progress in the generation and characterization of ultraviolet laser pulses. Specifically, the awardee will conduct numerical simulations of high harmonic generation in a gas jet experiment to analyze the impact of...

This $264,134 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to grow large single crystals of noncentrosymmetric compounds and study their nonlinear optical properties. The PI and a graduate student will learn techniques to grow centimeter-sized single crystals and analyze the nonlinear optical properties, including coefficients, second-harmonic generation,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $416,059 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FIRST-PRINCIPLE CONTROL OF NOVEL RESONANCES IN NON-HERMITIAN PHOTONIC MEDIA" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This grant supports integrated research, education, and outreach focused on studying a novel behavior of light within solid materials. The researchers aim to establish a complex non-Hermitian photonic environment through first-principle...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems will support research into developing new 2D ferroelectric nonlinear metasurface holograms with high conversion efficiency but only nanometer thickness. The $249,379 award made to the Missouri University of Science & Technology on September 1, 2022 will fund the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of 2D ferroelectric holograms to demonstrate the production of...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $299,292 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to support research into complex methods in spectral and scattering problems. Specifically, the award will fund investigations into the non-linear Fourier transform and its relationship to scattering theory for Dirac systems of differential equations, which model spin-1/2 particles. Researchers will study questions of...