Project Grant DESC0015080

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 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 to Semergytech, Inc., a small business based in Arlington, Texas. The funding supports the development and commercialization of high-speed, high-power, single-mode photonic crystal surface emitting lasers (PCSELs). The project aims to address current limitations in semiconductor laser technologies by creating a disruptive PCSEL...

Avicenatech Corporation received a $255,612 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop ultra-high throughput parallel optical links for chip-to-chip interconnects. The grant period runs from February 1, 2021 through July 31, 2021. Under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA #47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and education, Avicenatech will use the funding to advance...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to The University of Texas at Arlington under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a fast 2D optical beam steering device integrated directly onto high power vertical cavity surface-emitting laser arrays. Over a three-year period ending September 2025, the university will investigate fundamental challenges toward achieving a high-speed beam steering optical phased array structure capable of full phase...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $398,500.00 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY) to develop new principles for the ultrafast and energy-efficient operation of lasers and optical interconnects. The research aims to take advantage of the faster changes in the polarization of emitted light, rather than relying on conventional intensity-based information transfer, to enable...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Topolight, Inc. focuses on the development of a new class of compact, high-power, single-mode laser chips with photonic crystal cavity design. The goal is to advance the technology for applications in remote sensing, environmental monitoring, satellite communication, and biomedical devices. The key innovation is a laser architecture that maintains single-mode operation...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $600,000.00 to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to develop semiconductor technologies for electrically controlled collimation of electromagnetic waves in the sub-terahertz frequency bands. The goal is to achieve a "needle beam" for wireless communication systems capable of high data rates up to 120 Gbps over distances greater than 1 km, as well as high-resolution...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $425,000 to the University of Washington is focused on developing high-speed perovskite light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for optical interconnects and data transmission. The key objectives are to: Engineer perovskite semiconductor materials and device designs to minimize resistance and increase LED modulation bandwidth. Optimize modulation formats using data-driven learning for high-bandwidth operation....

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...