The National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) awarded a $616,702 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan on October 1, 2024 for the "FUSE2 TOPIC 2: HETEROGENEOUS IN-PACKAGE PHOTONICS WITH RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL SWITCHING FOR AI CLUSTERS (HEROIC-AI)" project. This collaborative research effort, involving three leading universities, four IT companies, and a national lab, aims to develop a highly integrated photonic chip solution to enable ultra-high...
The University of Rochester received a $460,131 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop versatile on-chip devices for generating frequency combs and ultrashort pulses with high efficiencies and energies up to 1,000 times greater than the state-of-the-art. Specifically, the University will experimentally demonstrate how the energy limit of microresonator solitons can be engineered through loss engineering in strongly over-coupled cavities....
Photonect Interconnect Solutions Inc. received a $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a chip technology for cheaper and easier photonic device manufacturing. The company will focus on a new fusion splicing machine and novel silicon dioxide mode converter that enables faster, more accurate, and lower cost fiber placement on chips compared to existing technologies....
This $646,338 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into developing new manufacturing methodologies for fiber-embedded photonic and optoelectronic architectures. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the five-year award to Indiana University beginning in April 2022 will generate knowledge in 3D printed glass thermal reflow, multimaterial molten fiber fluid mechanics, and confined melt phase transition science. This foundational research aims to embed...
This $424,750 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of an ultrashort-pulse optical neural network system for brain-scale computing. The research aims to leverage the speed, bandwidth, and low-loss properties of light to enable real-time processing of billion-scale neural network models using minimal spatial elements. This approach seeks to overcome the limitations of current optical computing architectures. The...
The University of Rochester received a $1,499,921 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a novel photonic non-Von Neumann computing system using optical frequency combs. The four-year project aims to push the boundaries of nature-based computing in efficiency, capability and applicability for machine learning algorithms. Key products and services include...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $540,000 project grant to the University of Dayton Research Institute Division to develop novel hybrid silicon charge-trapped photonic waveguide devices. The 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2023, seeks to demonstrate energy-efficient non-volatile optical memory for computing, multi-level optical memory, high-sensitivity proton sensing, and the potential for label-free gene sequencing on a photonic...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $960,000 to Cornell University to develop new methods for optically interconnecting multiple chips within computer servers. The goal is to enable faster and more energy-efficient data transfer between accelerators, such as GPUs, which is crucial for applications like artificial intelligence, climate modeling, and biomedical...
This $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a chip technology to enable cheaper and easier manufacturing of photonic devices. The key objectives are to: (1) create a laser control system for optical fiber attachment, (2) develop a process design kit for mode converter manufacturing, and (3) pilot the developed packaging technology. The awardee, Photonect...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,500 Project Grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund the acquisition of a micro-transfer printer for heterogeneous integration of electronic/photonic microsystems from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The micro-transfer printer will allow RIT to integrate dissimilar materials like electronics, photonics, and MEMS at the microscale, enabling continued innovation...