Project Grant HDTRA11110011

This $1,100,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) federal grant program (CFDA 81.135), to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) for the project "Gaseous Optics for Next Generation Fusion Energy Lasers". The objective is to develop gas-based optical components, including mirrors, lenses, and beam shapers, that can withstand the extreme...

Advalue Photonics Inc. received a $198,880 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop a compact, high-power, fiber-based laser system at 257.5nm and 1030nm wavelengths. The project supports 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. Under this one-year award concluding on...

The University of California Irvine was awarded a $636,981 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to support research into extreme ultraviolet generation and spectroscopy using laser wakefield accelerators. The three-year award beginning June 1, 2023 will fund experiments at petawatt laser facilities to characterize plasma conditions and investigate the potential of laser wakefield acceleration as an extreme ultraviolet light source. The...

This $850,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Colorado Boulder to advance understanding of particle acceleration in plasmas driven by lasers. Specifically, the three-year award will fund simulation and experimental studies of optical field ionization-generated plasma channels for particle acceleration using laser wakefield acceleration. Researchers will conduct accurate simulations of plasma channel formation, characterize generated...

This Project Grant award, valued at $499,999.00, was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), under CFDA Number 81.135, to Fuceltech Inc. dba Princeton Innotech. The purpose of the award is to address the diode laser pumps needed for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The award supports the "Development of the Next Generation of Diode Pump Lasers for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF)" project, with...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $640,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The objective of this 3-year project is to study how plasma may be used as a space-time varying optical medium to generate new high-power, tunable sources of structured light by upshifting in electron plasma waves with relativistic phase velocity. Key goals include designing innovative plasma...

Radiabeam Technologies, LLC received a $199,815 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support development of a hybrid structure-wakefield accelerator with a plasma photocathode through March 26, 2023. The award is being administered 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 security and economic...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports research to develop a high-density, axially homogeneous helicon plasma source for the AWAKE (Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment) project at CERN. The research aims to qualify the helicon plasma generation technology for application in next-generation particle accelerator systems, which could significantly reduce the size and cost of future linear accelerators...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Radiabeam Systems, LLC $399,110 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a Cold Plasma Cathode for High Resolution Condensed Matter Electron Spectroscopy. The project aims to deliver a new type of electron source for microscopy and spectroscopy that offers improved resolution over traditional thermionic electron sources. Work will be conducted between June 2022 through March 2023 in Santa Monica,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund the University of Maryland, College Park to upgrade its existing 100 terawatt laser system to increase output pulse energy by a factor of four. Totaling $155,249, the award under the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support relativistic physics experiments in plasma, nonlinear optics, and laboratory astrophysics through July 2025. Specifically, the upgraded laser will enable tabletop...