Project Grant DESC0019788

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...

The U.S. Department of Energy, through its Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded a $482,000 Project Grant to The Ohio State University for the development of a "Hybrid Platform for Ultrafast Waveform-Controlled 2 Micron Laser Amplifier Front-End". The project aims to advance ultrafast laser technologies and their applications, with a focus on creating a low-noise, high-power femtosecond laser amplifier system. The grant supports The Ohio State...

This $495,782 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of chip-scale, fully-integrated mode-locked lasers (MLLs) on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) that can generate femtosecond optical pulses at high peak power exceeding 10 watts. The goal is to realize fully integrated ultrafast photonic systems, such as integrated supercontinuum lasers and self-referenced frequency combs, by seamlessly integrating the...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund the University of Maryland, College Park to upgrade its existing 100 terawatt laser system to increase output pulse energy by a factor of four. Totaling $155,249, the award under the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support relativistic physics experiments in plasma, nonlinear optics, and laboratory astrophysics through July 2025. Specifically, the upgraded laser will enable tabletop...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $500,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop techniques for directly measuring the intensity of ultra-high power laser light. The project aims to enable real-time, minimally intrusive measurement of laser focal spot characteristics, a critical capability for advancing high-powered laser research. This includes developing methodologies...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded N.p. Photonics, Inc. a $200,000 Project Grant to deliver a high-power ultrashort pulse laser beam delivery system. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the program's mission of transforming understanding of nature and advancing U.S. energy and economic security through scientific discoveries and tools. With this funding, N.p. Photonics will provide their laser beam delivery...

Advalue Photonics Inc. received a $198,880 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop a compact, high-power, fiber-based laser system at 257.5nm and 1030nm wavelengths. The project supports the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Under this one-year award concluding on...

This $900,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports research to develop and study diffractive plasma optics for spatiotemporal control and contrast improvement of high-power and high-energy laser beams. The primary awardee, The Trustees of Princeton University, will collaborate with two sub-awardees, Stanford University and the University of Rochester, to conduct computational and experimental...

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...

This $640,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental research into using plasma waves to generate high-intensity, tunable light sources. The primary objectives are to design innovative plasma structures capable of manipulating laser light in both spatial and temporal domains, and to explore the possibility of an all-optical source of extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light in plasma waves. The...