Project Grant W911NF1710439

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $237,051 to develop protocols for photon-mediated quantum information processing operations that are resilient to environmental fluctuations. The awardee, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York, will receive funding from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2023. The Principal Investigator will use analytical and computational...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $181,751 supported research at the University of Rhode Island from August 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award funded theoretical research exploring nonclassical states of light as resources for quantum metrology. Specifically, the principal investigator and their research group investigated quantifying nonclassical states using the framework of quantum resource theory and...

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...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) awarded a $1,630,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Idaho for the "ENTANGLEMENT-ENHANCED VISUAL METABOLOMICS: FROM SINGLE-CELLS TO POPULATIONS" project. This 1-year grant, running from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2025, will fund research to explore the use of classical and quantum optical methodologies for developing an integrated optical imaging system for microscopy. The project aims...

Technologies KI3 Photoniques Inc. was awarded a $449,999 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will support research into Highly Entangled States of Light from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. The research will be conducted at Technologies KI3 Photoniques Inc.'s facility located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program...

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 Cooperative Agreement award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $235,654.00 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a silicon-based quasi-deterministic entangled photon pair source for zero-added-loss multiplexing. The award period runs from December 12, 2024 to March 10, 2028. This research aims to advance quantum technologies by creating an innovative photon source that can...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $275,000 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities (IA) program to The University of Iowa to design and implement an on-chip source of multiphoton entangled states. The research aims to advance the practicality and resilience of photonic quantum interconnects by controlling spin-photon interactions in quantum dots to achieve high-efficiency, low-noise multiphoton entanglement generation. Key objectives include establishing...

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 $550,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will support the University of Maryland, College Park in developing nanophotonic synthetic dimensions for analog quantum Hamiltonian simulators and sensing. The project aims to leverage low-loss nanophotonics to integrate synthetic dimensions on-chip using frequency and Floquet modes of driven microring resonators, extending this capability to the quantum regime. The research will focus on...