Project Grant FA95501710071

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...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $240,000 in funding to President and Fellows of Harvard College to develop a disruptive technology for high-performance optical switches based on active optical metamaterials. The goal is to improve the energy efficiency of data communication in large-scale data centers, which often limit overall computing performance due to communication overheads. The project will focus on...

This is a Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The $305,000 award was granted to Emode Photonix LLC, a woman-owned small business located in Boulder, CO, to develop a new computer program that will enhance the design and optimization of photonic devices used in quantum technology. The project aims to create a simulation tool that can more accurately model nonlinear optical interactions and...

This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research at the University of Maryland, College Park to explore a new class of low-loss phase change materials for controlling light propagation and enabling "synthetic modal dimensions" in photonic integrated circuits. The central hypothesis is that suitably designed transverse mode converters leveraging the large index tunability of phase change materials can enable...

This $419,379 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop innovative gallium nitride (GaN)-based terahertz (THz) photoconductive emitters with an optical-to-THz energy conversion efficiency approaching or exceeding 100%. The research project will focus on three core areas: (1) designing GaN photoconductive switches with high breakdown electrical fields, (2) investigating ultrafast carrier dynamics and THz generation in...

This is a $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) to Vanderbilt University. The grant supports a collaborative research project titled "CQIS: On-Chip Nanoscale Trap and Enhance Device (NOTED) for Quantum Photonics." The project aims to develop an integrated on-chip device that can rapidly assemble and enhance the rate of single photon production for advancing quantum technologies like secure data communication,...

This $1,773,267 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910), funds the construction of a nanophotonic system that encompasses a squeezer, high gain measurement optical amplifier, pump generator, phase-stable programmable interferometers, and balanced homodyne detector integrated on a thin-film lithium niobate on insulator platform. This system is intended...

This Project Grant award, valued at $275,000, was made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The award was granted to Brightlight Photonics, Inc., a small disadvantaged business located in Cambridge, MA. The goal of this STTR Phase I project is to transition the Ti:Sapphire-on-Insulator (Ti:SaOI) platform from an academic demonstration to a wafer-scale, CMOS-foundry compatible process. This will enable the...

This Project Grant award of $447,691 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports research to develop a novel dual-purpose photonic fabric for high-performance, energy-efficient, and scalable heterogeneous chiplet-based architectures. The key objectives of the research are to: (1) enable power-efficient and scalable on-chip communications between cores and accelerators,...

The University of Pittsburgh was awarded a $225,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to demonstrate an active optical device that exploits the unique properties of phase-change and two-dimensional materials. The project aims to develop novel phase-change materials and microheaters composed of low-dimensional materials such as graphene that are transparent in the visible spectrum and compatible with any substrate. This...