Project Grant DESC0019904

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...

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...

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...

This $499,999 Project Grant was awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a civilian agency under the U.S. Department of Energy, to Fuceltech Inc. dba Princeton Innotech. The purpose of this award under ARPA-E's SPARKS program (DE-FOA-0003164) is to develop the next generation of high-power diode pump lasers to increase pulse energy density for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Specifically, the goal...

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...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin to support collaborative research on two-photon absorption engineering in laser diodes for ultrafast pulse generation. This three-year award, made under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program, will fund development of techniques to engineer two-photon absorption properties in laser diodes for applications in ultrafast pulse...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), totaling $300,000, will support theoretical research to develop short-pulsed ultraviolet laser sources. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award will promote progress in the generation and characterization of ultraviolet laser pulses. Specifically, the awardee will conduct numerical simulations of high harmonic generation in a gas jet experiment to analyze the impact of...

This Project Grant award of $275,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to transition the Ti:Sapphire-on-Insulator (Ti:SaOI) photonic platform from an academic demonstration to a wafer-scale, CMOS-foundry compatible process. The award recipient, Brightlight Photonics, Inc., a small disadvantaged business in Cambridge, MA, will develop efficient methods for doping sapphire, optimize plasma etching, and produce 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 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...