Project Grant DESC0018603

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....

Impact Photonics LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatible single photon avalanche diode. The SBIR program is intended to support scientific research and development that has the potential for commercialization. Under this Phase I award made on November 1, 2021 for a one-year period ending December 31, 2022, Impact Photonics...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,000,000 to Iris Light Technologies Inc., a small business in Chicago, Illinois, to develop foundry-scale production of on-chip silicon photonic light emitters enabled by printed photonic ink. The project aims to create black phosphorus-based inks that can be integrated directly onto silicon photonic chips to produce on-chip lasers. This...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant of $275,000 awarded to Lumoniq Inc. supports research and development of a nanoscale hybrid optical interconnect platform to revolutionize internal computer chip connections. The project aims to commercialize a new approach called Coupled Hybrid Plasmonics (CHP) that uses the interaction of light and metals to enable high-bandwidth, low-power,...

This STTR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to transition the Ti:Sapphire-on-Insulator (Ti:SaOI) platform from an academic demonstration to a wafer-scale, CMOS-foundry compatible process. The $275,000 award, with a performance period from February 15, 2025 to October 31, 2025, will enable the scalable production of integrated Ti:Sapphire lasers and amplifiers in the wavelength range...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Physical Sciences Inc. a $199,993 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop volumetric fiber-to-chip mode converters from February 21, 2023 through February 20, 2024. The award supports Physical Sciences Inc.'s work to simulate, fabricate, and test mode converter devices with the goal of delivering prototypes demonstrating high efficiency mode conversion capabilities to the Office of Science....

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (NSF ENG) totaling $161,597 will support research at Troy University from February 2022 to January 2024 to develop a new all-optical plasmonic switch for data processing. The proposed switch utilizes thermo-opto-electronic control of propagating surface plasmon modes at metal-doped semiconductor interfaces via localized surface plasmon resonances excited at plasmonic structures. The research will employ...

Dream Photonics Inc. received a $365,845.12 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Army Materiel Command's Research Development and Engineering Command under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The award funds research and development activities focused on hybrid integration of III-V (Indium-Gallium-Arsenide and similar compound semiconductor) light sources with silicon photonic integrated circuits. This research aligns with...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $1.325M Project Grant to Dartmouth College under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the project "ASCENT: Platforms for Integrated/Isolated Optical Power Transfer (PI2-OPT) for Multi-Scale Power and Energy Systems". This 4-year research project aims to develop platforms that leverage integrated/isolated optical-wireless power transfer to deliver both power and data (for...