Project Grant 2625394
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded The Regents of the University of Colorado $482,679 on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop chip-scale, pulsed light sources for the long-wavelength infrared region of the spectrum. The project aims to integrate chalcogenide optical amplifiers and parametric oscillators into compact photonic circuits capable of reaching wavelengths in the long-wavelength infrared...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $550,000 to President and Fellows of Harvard College on June 15, 2026, for development of integrated-photonics spatial light modulators under the CAREER program (CFDA 47.041, Engineering). The award funds research to design and integrate large-scale, high-speed spatial light modulators combining solid-state gain laser arrays, high-speed electro-optic modulators, two-dimensional beam-emitter arrays,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The goal of the 3-year project is to develop an energy-efficient coherent optical interconnect architecture that can enable dramatic increases in datacenter and high-performance computing bandwidth-density and energy-efficiency. The key technical innovations...
- This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research at The Washington University in St. Louis to develop a heterogeneous photonic integration platform. The key technical objectives are to: Enable the van der Waals integration of dissimilar functional nanomembranes, including barium titanate, gallium nitride, and cobalt ferrite, onto silicon and silicon nitride photonic circuits. This will allow the creation of...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $409,834 to the University of Cincinnati to design, fabricate, and characterize novel electrically pumped topological nanowire photonic crystal lasers. The goal is to develop highly compact, defect-robust laser light sources compatible with photonic integrated circuits for high-performance, low-power information technology applications. The research will explore topologically...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide $402,134 from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to support research and development of a novel class of semiconductor nanostructures called non-Hermitian topological photonic crystals. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing, fabricating, and characterizing the optical properties and optoelectronic device applications of these photonic crystal slabs,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Northeastern University $550,000 on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop on-chip hollow glass bubble resonators functionalized with highly nonlinear materials for generating classical and quantum optical frequency combs. The research platform will create a reconfigurable approach to efficient classical and quantum light source generation, with potential applications...
- This $380,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering) will fund the development of new types of on-chip "topological photodetectors" that can detect and differentiate between different modes and properties of light, such as its phase, polarization, and orbital angular momentum. These novel photodetectors, based on emerging quantum materials like Weyl semimetals,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Northeastern University $562,878 on May 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop on-chip coupled resonator arrays for generating unconventional classical and quantum optical frequency combs. The project will create a new class of optical frequency combs using large arrays of chip-integrated coupled nonlinear resonators, guided by condensed-matter-physics-inspired design...
- The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was awarded a $330,320 Project Grant from the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research to support research into nanophotonic quantum devices based on lanthanides. The award period runs from September 15, 2021 to September 14, 2023. Under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), Caltech will conduct basic and applied research with the goal of developing nanophotonic quantum devices that utilize...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded California Institute of Technology $437,500 on October 1, 2026, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop semiconductor-gain-integrated nonlinear nanophotonic circuits in lithium niobate. The project will integrate electrically driven semiconductor lasers with advanced lithium niobate photonic circuits to create a unified platform capable of generating and manipulating coherent light on a single chip. Research activities combine theory, numerical modeling, nanofabrication, and experimental characterization to establish physical principles governing the interaction of electrically pumped optical gain, engineered second-order optical nonlinearities, and integrated optical cavities. The work will develop compact coherent light sources and photonic architectures enabled by this integrated platform, with design principles and experimental demonstrations derived from studies of nonlinear dynamics, coherence, stability, and tunability in integrated devices. The project will also provide interdisciplinary training for graduate and undergraduate students at the intersection of photonics, materials, and nanotechnology and will integrate research outcomes into educational and outreach activities. Potential long-term applications include environmental and medical sensing, high-speed communications, and emerging information-processing technologies. Work is performed at Caltech in Pasadena, California. The period of performance runs from October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $437.5k | 8/4/26 |