Project Grant FA23862014051

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory provides $100,000 to fund basic research activities under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) from March 2021 through March 2022. The research, titled "Generation of Highly Entangled States of Light Based on Quantum Optical Frequency Comb," will be conducted by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea. The Air Force Defense...

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...

Technologies KI3 Photoniques Inc. was awarded a $449,999 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will support research into Highly Entangled States of Light from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. The research will be conducted at Technologies KI3 Photoniques Inc.'s facility located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Dallas under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop and demonstrate entanglement distribution among six remote quantum nodes through cold atomic ensembles and photon polarizations. This research seeks to maintain Air Force technological superiority in quantum information sciences and prevent technological surprise from adversaries...

This $357,994 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Illinois towards developing quantum-assisted reconfigurable indoor wireless environments. The goal is to investigate new communication models and schemes that dynamically program and customize indoor wireless propagation environments for enhanced communications. The university researchers will integrate wave-chaotic dynamics, random matrix theory, reconfigurable electromagnetic surfaces, and quantum...

This $800,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds the development of new quantum communication technologies at The University of Texas at Arlington and Northwestern University through August 2025. The award supports research to increase quantum communication capacity by exploiting the spatial degrees of freedom of optical fibers. The universities will develop several types of high-capacity quantum communication links...

The National University of Singapore received a $374,117 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund basic research for the proposal "Low Noise Telecom Quantum Receivers for Aerospace Applications" from September 2020 through March 2024. The research aims to develop quantum receiver technologies with applications for aerospace systems, maintaining...

The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded a $108,000 Project Grant to Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Per LE Telecomunicazioni under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program. The grant supports research from January 11, 2021 to February 28, 2022 to design optimization of coherent MIMO radar networks enabled by photonics. The Basic and Applied Scientific Research program aims to support and stimulate basic and applied research and technology...

The Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded a $599,958 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to support research probing the influence of anisotropic and disordered interactions on the dynamics of quantum information in a Rydberg tweezer array. This three-year award beginning September 1, 2022 will fund basic scientific research services at the University of Oklahoma that have the potential to lead to improvements in Department...

The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a two-year, $857,585 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will support the development of an experimental testbed for a quantum router using optical quantum memory. The testbed aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to its needs by exploring quantum technologies with...