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...
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 Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Optical Engines, Inc. on February 12, 2024. The funding supports research and development on path length matching and phase control for coherently combined fiber laser arrays. Optical Engines, a manufacturing company specializing in advanced laser technologies, will leverage this grant to advance fiber laser and amplifier technologies for...
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...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $388,000 Project Grant titled "MULTI-PHYSICS DRIVEN FABRICATION OF NEXT GENERATION SRF STRUCTURES" to The Ohio State University (OSU) for the project period of September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. This grant supports fundamental scientific research across multiple disciplines to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The funding...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $477,683 Project Grant to The Ohio State University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) for the period of July 15, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The grant will support the collaborative research project "Enhancing Laser Based Ion Sources with High Data Rate Techniques." Researchers at The Ohio State University, Miami University, California State University Channel Islands, and Wright Patterson Air Force Base will...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded Spectral Energies LLC a $199,888 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop "ENABLING HIGH-PERFORMANCE, LARGE-APERTURE, MULTI-TERAWATT ULTRAFAST GRATINGS THROUGH SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING PROCESSES." The project aims to advance ultrafast laser technologies through innovative semiconductor manufacturing techniques. Spectral Energies, a minority-owned small disadvantaged...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through its Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan for a 2-year period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026. The grant supports research to optimize high-energy electron acceleration (> 100 MeV) and investigate secondary radiation, including beamed synchrotron X-rays, generated by laser-accelerated electrons in an underdense plasma. The research...
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 University of Rochester was awarded a $460,000 federal Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on "MITIGATION OF CROSS BEAM ENERGY TRANSFER AND HOT ELECTRONS BY LASER SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH." The award period is from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program supports fundamental scientific research across multiple disciplines to...