The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Colorado Boulder a $425,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award will support the development of a chip-scale, chalcogenide-based nonlinear optical gyroscope with enhanced performance. The gyroscope aims to provide ultrasensitive rotation sensing without moving parts for applications requiring precise navigation where GPS is...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,834 Project Grant to Anello Photonics Inc. under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a silicon photonic optical gyroscope using planar waveguide coil and integrated photonics circuit. This award provides six months of funding from April 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021 for Anello Photonics to produce an optical gyroscope that utilizes silicon photonics technology. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $300,000 to the University of Colorado Boulder for theoretical research on inertial sensing applications of superradiant lasers. The three-year award beginning June 1, 2022 supports quantitative analysis of a proposed new type of inertial sensor based on collective atomic effects in an optical ring resonator. The Principal Investigator will evaluate the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) grant award of $550,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will develop compact, deployable, and self-reliant navigation and timekeeping systems using quantum emitters in group IV materials. The key research thrusts include: Engineering broadband and stable vector magnetometry using color centers in diamond for magnetic navigation, by enhancing sensitivity through photonic device integration and implementing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $450,000 over 3 years to the University of New Mexico to develop an advanced magnetometry sensor based on frequency comb techniques. The proposed sensor will exploit direct phase detection rather than amplitude measurements, enabling enhanced resolution and sensitivity for gradient magnetic field detection. Key technical objectives include theoretical modeling, verification with a...
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....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award in the amount of $200,000 supports research to characterize the dynamics of micro-electro-mechanical resonators and improve their performance for use in advanced sensing and timekeeping devices. Specifically, the research will study the application of variable mechanical tension to tune the resonance frequency of these tiny vibrating structures, with the goal of achieving ultra-stable resonance frequency and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Rochester to develop miniaturized metasurface-based devices for ultrafast optical pulse characterization. This 3-year project, under NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to advance the field of ultrafast metrology by creating compact and accurate devices for temporally and spatially characterizing ultrafast optical pulses. Specifically, the...
This $574,999 federal project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton to develop broadband tunable nano-opto-electro-mechanical resonators for ultrasensitive adaptive sensing. The research aims to create a highly tunable mechanical resonator that can operate across a wide range of frequencies, signals, and conditions, enabling advanced adaptive sensing in various applications like...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to research and develop switchable persistent spin helix devices. The goal is to overcome key challenges in spintronic devices, which use electron spin rather than charge to carry information, by leveraging materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and electric-field tunable persistent...