Project Grant N000142612017

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $355,683 to California State University, Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The award supports research aimed at advancing optical technology to further explore the cosmos using gravitational waves. Key deliverables include characterizing and developing techniques to reduce laser light...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under CFDA 47.041 - Engineering to Duke University to develop a new class of metamaterial-based devices capable of creating and manipulating optical angular momentum (OAM) at nanoscale and ultrafast timescales. The interdisciplinary research team, which includes partners from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and King's College London, aims to address the fundamental challenge of the scale mismatch between nanoscale...

The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University, was awarded a $335,156 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research titled "CAREER: FLAT SINGULAR OPTICS: GENERATION AND DETECTION OF OPTICAL VORTEX BEAMS WITH PLASMONIC METASURFACES IN LINEAR AND NONLINEAR REGIMES" under the NSF's Engineering (ENG) program (CFDA #47.041). The two-year project period, which began on October 1, 2021 and ends...

Raytum Photonics LLC was awarded a $199,992 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop a tunable fiber laser system in the visible wavelength range for photocathode drive. The funding supports Raytum Photonics' work under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) through November 13, 2022. The Office of Science aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economics through scientific...

Raytum Photonics LLC was awarded a $199,993 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a low insertion loss high power cryogenic Faraday isolator for carbon dioxide wavelengths. The isolator will allow for more efficient transmission of laser light for scientific applications such as spectroscopy. The Office of Science seeks to advance scientific understanding and energy technologies through...

Raytum Photonics LLC was awarded a $199,995 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a broadband low aberration composite magnet sextupole lens. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Under this February 2022 award concluding in November...

This $38,090 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop fundamental knowledge and enable the deployment of next-generation cryogenic electro-optic materials integrated on silicon for quantum photonic circuits. The research aims to address challenges in translating promising nanoscale materials into successful devices by...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,906 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The award period is from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The project aims to design and realize a new class of metamaterial-based devices capable of creating and manipulating optical angular momentum (OAM)-carrying beams at the subwavelength spatial and ultrafast time scales. This interdisciplinary research leverages the anisotropy of...

This $523,635 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at Colgate University to explore techniques for creating novel three-dimensional light patterns that have potential applications in biomedical imaging, communications, and quantum metrology. The principal investigator and undergraduate research team will investigate how manipulating the degrees of freedom in light, such as polarization and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $305,000 to support the development of a new class of high-power, surface-emitting, single-mode laser chips with photonic crystal cavity design. The goal is to advance compact and scalable laser technology that can enable more precise and energy-efficient systems for applications such as remote sensing, environmental monitoring, satellite...