Project Grant FA86552517033

This Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $429,360.00 to Clemson University to conduct research on "UNDERSTANDING NANO-ENGINEERED OPTICAL FIBERS FOR POWER-SCALED FIBER LASERS". The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific understanding in areas critical to national defense capabilities. The award period...

This $149,615 Project Grant, awarded by the Department of the Air Force under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), supports research and development by the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. The grant aims to develop highly efficient, low-nonlinearity large-mode-area thulium-doped optical fibers with metal coatings for robust operation of kilowatt-class eye-safe 2-micron laser systems. The research, spanning from September 2025 to August 2028, will focus...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $131,820.00 was provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The funding will support the development of Erbium Fiber Lasers for Frequency Comb Metrology research at the University of Colorado from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2025. This fundamental research project aims to advance scientific knowledge and capabilities in areas relevant to Air Force needs, such as...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $187,976 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Duke University. The grant, effective February 1, 2025 through January 31, 2026, will fund research to characterize the chiro-optic and dynamical responses of bespoke semiconducting materials for spin transport and long-wavelength information transmission. This work aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S....

This $150,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) supports research by the University of Southern California (USC) on fast modeling and inverse design of radio-frequency and nanophotonic devices using high-order integral equation methods. The award, effective from December 15, 2024 to December 14, 2027, aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $298,160 Project Grant to Northwestern University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop a broadband, variable repetition rate ultrafast laser. This laser will be used to differentiate nonthermal reaction pathways in model plasmonic photocatalysts. The project will run from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026. The research aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by...

This federal Project Grant award of $140,341, provided by the U.S. Air Force under the Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), supports the development of high-power interband cascade lasers and arrays for free space communication technology. The award was granted to Institut Mines Telecom, a prominent non-profit educational institution in Palaiseau, France, in October 2024. This research project aims to advance cutting-edge laser and communications technologies critical to...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $310,482 Project Grant to the University of Colorado under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop an innovative ultrafast laser system for scanning photoionization imaging microscopy. The objective is to maintain technological superiority in areas relevant to Air Force needs, prevent technological surprise, and foster a strong research infrastructure. The University of Colorado will conduct fundamental research...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Air Force's Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $156,000.00 in funding to the Université de Montpellier in France to conduct R&D on high-power interband cascade lasers and arrays for free-space communication. The project aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific understanding and developing new capabilities in quantum technologies, materials science, and aerospace...

The University of Glasgow Court received a $149,760 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Air Force under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop multi-junction buried-dielectric photonic crystal surface emitting laser diodes and arrays. This fundamental research project aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific understanding and capabilities in the areas of quantum technologies,...