Project Grant FA86552017002

This STTR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to transition the Ti:Sapphire-on-Insulator (Ti:SaOI) platform from an academic demonstration to a wafer-scale, CMOS-foundry compatible process. The $275,000 award, with a performance period from February 15, 2025 to October 31, 2025, will enable the scalable production of integrated Ti:Sapphire lasers and amplifiers in the wavelength range...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Colorado Boulder a $425,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award will support the development of a chip-scale, chalcogenide-based nonlinear optical gyroscope with enhanced performance. The gyroscope aims to provide ultrasensitive rotation sensing without moving parts for applications requiring precise navigation where GPS is...

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, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research to develop a miniaturized Sagnac gyroscope using integrated photonics on a lithium tantalate platform. The $472,120 award to Carnegie Mellon University aims to enhance the sensitivity and stability of these compact optical gyroscopes, which have applications in navigation systems, drones, and virtual/augmented reality. The project explores the use of...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $508,609 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a novel chip-scale silicon photonics millimeter-wave (mm-wave) full-duplex transceiver architecture with ultra-wideband self-interference cancellation capabilities. The project aims to advance mm-wave communications and sensing capabilities for both civilian and defense applications, such as radio backhaul links, 5G base...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $450,000 to North Carolina State University to research and develop a compact, power-efficient magneto-optical trap (MOT) system using chip-scale nanophotonic components. The 3-year project aims to replace traditional free-space optics in MOTs with advanced metasurfaces and planar diffraction gratings, enabling a smaller, more portable cold-atom platform for applications in quantum sensing,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $305,000 to Tau Optics Inc. focuses on developing a proof-of-concept prototype for a compact, high-precision volume grating-based spectrometer. The project aims to enhance the performance of rotated chirped Bragg gratings (R-CBGs) to broaden operational bandwidth and improve spectral resolution, enabling more affordable and portable light analysis for applications like...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a novel chip-scale silicon photonics (SiP) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) channelizer with ultra-wide bandwidth, dynamic tuning, ultra-fast channelization, and interferer tolerance capabilities. The project aims to integrate SiP components with nanometer CMOS circuitry to generate optical frequency combs with flat...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The goal of the 3-year project is to develop an energy-efficient coherent optical interconnect architecture that can enable dramatic increases in datacenter and high-performance computing bandwidth-density and energy-efficiency. The key technical innovations...