Project Grant DESC0022798

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $446,998 Project Grant to Cornell University to develop a new CMOS-compatible platform for ultraviolet (UV) and visible integrated photonics based on thin-film deposited hafnia. The key objectives are to: Explore strategies to inhibit crystallization of hafnia and reduce optical losses by incorporating other elements into the films. The resulting composite films will maintain hafnia's high refractive...

This $495,782 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop high-power, integrated femtosecond mode-locked lasers and ultrafast photonic systems on thin-film lithium niobate integrated photonic circuits. The principal investigator and their team at the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) - Advanced Science Research Center will: Create chip-scale, fully-integrated mode-locked lasers that can...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant award to La Luce Cristallina, Inc. provides $274,997 to address critical technical challenges in scaling up barium titanate on silicon technology for photonic integrated circuits. The key products and services to be delivered under this 1-year project include: Developing a process to mitigate the thermal stress that arises from integrating barium titanate, an optical material, with silicon...

This $390,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aims to develop pre-patterned freestanding single-crystalline lithium niobate (LN) photonic components for advanced quantum photonic integrated circuits. The project seeks to address limitations of conventional LN fabrication techniques by demonstrating a universal mechanical exfoliation method to produce damage-free LN waveguide...

This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Washington University aims to develop novel photonic integrated circuits through the heterogeneous integration of functional nanomembranes like barium titanate, gallium nitride, and cobalt ferrite onto silicon and silicon nitride photonic platforms. The key objectives are to enable high-performance integrated electro-optical modulators, photodetectors, and isolators, as well...

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 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...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000.00 over a 4-year period to Purdue University to develop a novel hybrid thin film platform with unique optical properties for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The research aims to advance understanding of electro-optical and magneto-optical coupling effects in complex nanoscale hybrid metamaterials, and demonstrate key building blocks for future large-scale PICs including...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,834 Project Grant to Anello Photonics Inc. under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a silicon photonic optical gyroscope using planar waveguide coil and integrated photonics circuit. This award provides six months of funding from April 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021 for Anello Photonics to produce an optical gyroscope that utilizes silicon photonics technology. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $574,999 to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton to research and develop broadband tunable nano-opto-electro-mechanical resonators for ultrasensitive adaptive sensing. The goal is to create a highly tunable mechanical resonator that can adapt dynamically to a wide range of frequencies,...