Centers for Integrated Photonics Engineering Research (CIPhER)
Abstract
The Centers for Integrated Photonics Engineering Research (CIPhER) program will explore and enhance fundamental understanding in the development and application of integrated photonics, in which an entire photonic system is fabricated on a single chip. Much like integrated electronics, integrated photonics has the potential to enable photonics systems to reach revolutionary new levels of performance and functionality, but with a wider application range than electronics, including such areas as imaging, energy conversion, signal processing, and computing. The rise of integrated photonics as a viable, practical technology, combined with the utility of integrated photonics to many applications, is slated to result in a more rapid transition of basic photonics research to system applications of importance to the DoD. As such, photonics research that is supported by organizations with both fundamental and commercial interests is ideally suited to fostering the growth of the nation's integrated photonics industry. The CIPhER program will therefore use a government/industrial cost-share funding model to foster the next generation of fundamental university-based photonics research. The CIPhER program is directed toward achieving this objective through the establishment of collaborative theme-based focus centers. Focus centers will be comprised of university-led teams, with industrial partners, engaged in long-term basic research of photonic materials, devices, and microsystems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 5fb44c462724708bb06c3c9a393d0e0c