Project Grant DESC0021822

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $417,985 CAREER grant to Northwestern University to study novel solid-state quantum photonic devices and take initial steps towards multiplexed quantum communication. The grant, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the principal investigator's research on nonlinear interaction of electromagnetic fields with engineered materials like lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) for quantum network applications. Key focus...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $275,000, 2-year Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under the NSF's Engineering funding program (CFDA 47.041). The objective of this "Quantum Manufacturing" project is to develop vanadium-based color centers in silicon carbide (SiC) that can function as high-quality, telecommunication-band single-photon emitters. Specifically, the project aims to deterministically...

The University of Pittsburgh received a $194,087 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support collaborative research to realize joint detection receivers for quantum-enhanced optical communications using photonic NISQ-era quantum processors. Specifically, the University of Pittsburgh will work with partners to...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $399,083 will support research at the University of Illinois from August 2022 to July 2025 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund development of single-photon quantum information processing using nonlinear photonic integrated circuits. Specifically, the university researchers will work to generate and manipulate few-photon quantum correlations and entanglement through an integrated photonic system with record-high...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to develop a scalable quantum information processing platform. The key objectives are to integrate silicon-based photonic waveguides with microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) to create a highly scalable quantum photonic integrated circuit (QPIC). The research aims to address challenges in QPIC scaling, efficiency, and...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $135,000 supports research toward universal quantum computing with integrated quantum optical frequency combs through August 2025. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), this award to the University of Virginia will support collaborative research to demonstrate generation of continuous variable cluster states and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill grid states on a photonic chip. Key objectives are to realize a chip-scale quantum state...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award for $408,691 will support the development of a high-dimensional photonic quantum register for the quantum internet at the University of Colorado. The goal is to create the first scalable solid-state photonic quantum register capable of simultaneously storing multiple optical photons within a single nuclear spin. The research aims to enable fundamentally secure communication, distributed quantum computing, and...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Indiana University to advance the precision manufacturing of fiber optic cables integrating quantum ionic processors. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the two-year award will develop the optimized design for scalable manufacturing of a new class of fibers with linear ion arrays integral to the fiber light-guiding core. Researchers will fabricate fiber systems housing multiple Paul traps loaded...

This $239,329 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to Northeastern University aims to develop thin films of erbium-doped yttrium iron garnets and demonstrate efficient microwave-to-optical photon transduction. The key objectives are to: 1) use magnetron sputtering to grow the erbium-doped thin films, 2) comprehensively characterize the structural, magnetic, and optical properties of...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2026. The grant funding supports the "CAREER: SCALABLE QUANTUM PHOTONICS BASED ON COLOR CENTER INTEGRATION WITH ANGLE-ETCHED SILICON CARBIDE DEVICES" project under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The University of California, Davis will develop scalable quantum...