Project Grant W911NF2510227

Optical Engines, Inc. received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support development of fiber amplifier technology for ultra-large-mode-area ultrafast laser arrays. The project will be completed by March 26, 2023. The award is being administered under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and advance...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Optical Engines, Inc. on February 12, 2024. The funding supports research and development on path length matching and phase control for coherently combined fiber laser arrays. Optical Engines, a manufacturing company specializing in advanced laser technologies, will leverage this grant to advance fiber laser and amplifier technologies for...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $255,000 Project Grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) to theoretically investigate and experimentally demonstrate compact, on-chip III-V lasers that are robust, efficient, and have a tailorable single-mode operation range. The proposed program aims to develop a family of topologically protected lasers to satisfy requirements for next-generation lasers used in photonic integrated circuits...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded N.p. Photonics, Inc. a $200,000 Project Grant to deliver a high-power ultrashort pulse laser beam delivery system. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support the program's mission of transforming understanding of nature and advancing U.S. energy and economic security through scientific discoveries and tools. With this funding, N.p. Photonics will provide their laser beam delivery...

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...

The U.S. Department of Energy, through its Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), awarded a $482,000 Project Grant to The Ohio State University for the development of a "Hybrid Platform for Ultrafast Waveform-Controlled 2 Micron Laser Amplifier Front-End". The project aims to advance ultrafast laser technologies and their applications, with a focus on creating a low-noise, high-power femtosecond laser amplifier system. The grant supports The Ohio State...

This $800,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds the development of new quantum communication technologies at The University of Texas at Arlington and Northwestern University through August 2025. The award supports research to increase quantum communication capacity by exploiting the spatial degrees of freedom of optical fibers. The universities will develop several types of high-capacity quantum communication links...

This $499,999 Project Grant was awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a civilian agency under the U.S. Department of Energy, to Fuceltech Inc. dba Princeton Innotech. The purpose of this award under ARPA-E's SPARKS program (DE-FOA-0003164) is to develop the next generation of high-power diode pump lasers to increase pulse energy density for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Specifically, the goal...

This $900,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports research to develop and study diffractive plasma optics for spatiotemporal control and contrast improvement of high-power and high-energy laser beams. The primary awardee, The Trustees of Princeton University, will collaborate with two sub-awardees, Stanford University and the University of Rochester, to conduct computational and experimental...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports an exploratory study investigating the use of specialty optical fibers for hybrid quantum encoding at visible wavelengths. The project aims to develop new approaches to quantum photonics by leveraging multicore optical fibers originally designed for telecommunications. The research involves simulations, experimental demonstrations, and machine learning-based analysis to explore...