Project Grant FA23862414073

This federal Project Grant award of $557,013.00 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to advance the scientific frontier of photonic quantum technologies. The award, granted to the University of Oklahoma, will fund the development of a new class of scalable, high-quality photon sources and entangled photonic states. This research seeks to overcome current limitations in deterministically generating large entangled photon states, which are critical for...

This Project Grant award of $1,100,000.00, provided by the Department of the Army Materiel Command's Basic Scientific Research Program (CFDA 12.431), supports fundamental research at Michigan Technological University to advance mid-wave infrared single photon detection capabilities through quantum non-demolition techniques. The research aims to generate innovative scientific discoveries and technological capabilities that could address long-term national security challenges and enhance...

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...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $181,751 supported research at the University of Rhode Island from August 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award funded theoretical research exploring nonclassical states of light as resources for quantum metrology. Specifically, the principal investigator and their research group investigated quantifying nonclassical states using the framework of quantum resource theory and...

This Project Grant award of $350,000.00 from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research (CFDA 12.300) program supports research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop microwave to optical transduction of single photons using ytterbium doped YVO4. The performance period for this award is from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2028. Caltech is a leading research university known for its innovative scientific and technological capabilities, and...

This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research by Baylor University to develop a novel method for generating quantum-entangled light. The project aims to demonstrate the modulation of an optical cavity using integrated phase change materials to produce quantum-entangled photons compatible with silicon photonics technology. This work exists at the intersection of quantum field theory, ultrafast optics, and...

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...

This $100,000 EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund an exploratory study on using specialty optical fibers for advanced quantum information encoding. The project, led by The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY), aims to investigate the use of interacting ring-shaped multicore optical fibers at visible wavelengths to develop new hybrid quantum encoding schemes. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $700,000 from August 2024 to July 2027 to The Leland Stanford Junior University for research on quantum phenomena in ultrafast optical circuits. The primary aims are to develop deeper insights into the transition regime where quantum effects become significant as optical circuits are miniaturized, including both theoretical and experimental components. This work...

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...