AFOSR MURI: Ultralow Power, Ultrafast, Integrated Nano-Optoelectronics

OUR GOALS FOR THIS PROGRAM: • Introduce and develop revolutionary concepts to model, design, analyze, fabricate and characterize ultralow-power, ultrafast, high-density, compact, scalable optoelectronic nanodevices and dense arrays of them, envisioning the next generation of integrated nanophotonic systems • Realize nanophotonic devices enabling operations in the femtosecond, nanometer and attojoule ranges, all within a CMOS-compatible, directly scalable, room-temperature environment at elecommunication wavelengths • Device engineering: Modulators, switches, metasurfaces, zero-energy analog computing, opto-electronic systems • Metrics of success: Ultralow energy/bit, speed, bandwidth, insertion loss, size reduction, integrability • Impact for DoD and national grand challenges: Integrated nanophotonics, optical communications, data processing, data storage and computing, low-energy computation, optical signal manipulation, localized emitters