Project Grant DESC0023599

Raytum Photonics LLC was awarded a $199,993 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a low insertion loss high power cryogenic Faraday isolator for carbon dioxide wavelengths. The isolator will allow for more efficient transmission of laser light for scientific applications such as spectroscopy. The Office of Science seeks to advance scientific understanding and energy technologies through...

Freedom Photonics LLC received a $249,987 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to support the Quantum All-Optical Transponder (QOAT) project. The award was made under 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. Through this funding, Freedom Photonics will develop a QOAT prototype to...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by Northeastern University to develop energy-efficient, low-cost, and compact cryogenic chips for quantum computing systems. The key goals are to advance cryogenic complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits for qubit control pulse generation and create superconducting chip technology for on-chip circulators. This research aims to address hardware...

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...

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....

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (ENG), under the federal program titled "Engineering" (CFDA #47.041), provides $316,039 to Boston College to develop high-temperature superconducting photon detectors. Specifically, the grantee will investigate new methods for preparing template films for selective area growth of yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) films and explore using chemical vapor deposition graphene as a protective...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park to explore a new class of low-loss phase change materials that can control light propagation and trigger mode transitions within photonic integrated circuits. The central aim is to leverage interference between transverse spatial modes of multimode waveguides to create a "synthetic modal dimension" and dynamically reconfigure...

This is a $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) to Vanderbilt University. The grant supports a collaborative research project titled "CQIS: On-Chip Nanoscale Trap and Enhance Device (NOTED) for Quantum Photonics." The project aims to develop an integrated on-chip device that can rapidly assemble and enhance the rate of single photon production for advancing quantum technologies like secure data communication,...

This two-year, $297,189 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research aims to develop new approaches for ultra-low temperature refrigeration without reliance on rare helium isotopes. Specifically, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will investigate using electrically-tunable spin-orbit interactions in Rashba materials to achieve refrigeration through adiabatic electrification, with a goal of reaching temperatures as low as 0.01 K. If successful,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $330,000 to Northeastern University aims to develop high-temperature, highly efficient near-to-mid-infrared nanowire single-photon detectors through the integration of superconducting, optical, and thermal metamaterials. The research project seeks to increase the operational temperature of these detectors beyond the sub-Kelvin constraints of current superconducting nanowire technology, enabling broader...