Project Grant FA95502410139

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 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910), is funding the development of a fully integrated, single-mode squeezed light system operating at 1550 nm wavelength. The $2,184,162 award, with a performance period from August 2024 to February 2026, supports the University of Southern California (USC) in creating a compact, high-efficiency system capable of over 16 dB of optical...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program, CFDA 47.083, provides $539,000 to develop a Rydberg tweezer quantum processor with real-time optical cavity readout at the University of California, Berkeley from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The award will enable measurements of a portion of a complex quantum system while the remainder continues to evolve coherently. This will be realized using arrays of optically trapped single atoms with...

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 $450,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) program (CFDA 47.079) aims to address challenges in scaling trapped-ion quantum computing systems. The project will develop integrated photonic devices for efficient modulation and delivery of visible and ultraviolet laser light required to control trapped ion quantum systems. The work will assess two complementary approaches - acousto-optic and...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $135,000 supports research toward universal quantum computing with integrated quantum optical frequency combs through August 2025. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), this award to the University of Virginia will support collaborative research to demonstrate generation of continuous variable cluster states and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill grid states on a photonic chip. Key objectives are to realize a chip-scale quantum state...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) award provides $408,691 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to develop the first deterministic solid-state photonic quantum register capable of storing multiple optical photons. The project aims to utilize germanium vacancy centers in diamond as quantum memory, leveraging the 10-dimensional qudit enabled by the nuclear spin of the 73Ge isotope to store multiple qubits of quantum information. Key goals include...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program provides $375,000 in funding to Purdue University to investigate entangled states in organic molecules and explore methods for generating high-fidelity quantum states of light. The research aims to enhance photon collection efficiency and zero-phonon line in organic molecules integrated into nanophotonic cavities and waveguides. Additionally, the project will focus on bringing...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program aims to develop an integrated, high-performance entangled photon pair source based on a silicon-carbide (SiC) micro-ring resonator platform. The $100,000 award, with a performance period from September 2024 to March 2026, will enable the Carnegie Mellon University research team to: Implement the spontaneous four-wave mixing...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $417,985 CAREER grant to Northwestern University to study novel solid-state quantum photonic devices and take initial steps towards multiplexed quantum communication. The grant, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the principal investigator's research on nonlinear interaction of electromagnetic fields with engineered materials like lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) for quantum network applications. Key focus...