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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
DARPA-BAA-09-19
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Dec 11, 2008
Creation Date:
Dec 11, 2008
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Dec 10, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Dec 10, 2009
Archive Date:
Jan 10, 2010
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Grant
Other
Procurement Contract
Category of Funding Activity:
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):
12.910
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Research and Technology Development
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Agency Name
DARPA - Defense Sciences Office
Description
DARPA is soliciting innovative research and development (R&D) proposals in the area of Zeno-based Optoelectronics (ZOE). Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice.
The goal of this program is to create materials and prototype devices that will demonstrate a new class of optoelectronics that operate with ultra-low energy dissipation (~100 aJ/operation). The vision is a class of all-optical devices whose function depends on materials exhibiting strong optically-induced absorption, where the presence of one wavelength of light (control) induces the absorption of a second wavelength (signal). Application of such materials could lead to all-optical devices such as switches, wavelength converters, pulse regenerators, add/drop multiplexers, and memory cells that dissipate extremely small amounts of energy per operation.
Critical features that must be considered in the development of Zeno-based Optoelectronics include:
Materials Science: Development of practical materials (gas, liquid, or solid) that exhibit strong optically-induced absorption, over a wide range of signal and control wavelengths. Ideally, except when both control and signal are present, neither should be absorbed by the material. For a given control wavelength, the range of signal wavelengths that experience absorption should be narrow, to enable wavelength division multiplexing of a device.
Device Design: Design and demonstrate practical, scalable, low loss switching devices. Operating speeds should be in the 1—100 GHz range. Possible alternative all-optical devices including switches, add/drop multiplexers, low noise pulse regenerators, wavelength converters, and memory cells that achieve their function and meet the performance metrics outlined for an optical switch will be considered.
Architecture: Because the control wavelength experiences only minute dissipation in the envisioned devices, it is conceivable that the control energy could be recycled and re-used. Scalable architectures need to be developed to take advantage of any possible energy savings.
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