OPTOELECTRONIC INFORMATION

PROCESSING16 March 2011

GERNOT S. POMRENKE

Program Manager

AFOSR/RSE

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

AFOSR

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2011 AFOSR SPRING REVIEW2305DX PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW

Explore optoelectronic information processing, integrated

photonics, and associated optical device components &

fabrication for air and space platforms to transform AF

capabilities in computing, communications, storage,

sensing and surveillance … with focus on nanotechnology

approaches.

Explore chip-scale optical networks, signal processing,

nanopower and terahertz radiation components.

Explore light-matter interactions at the subwavelength- and

nano-scale between metals, semiconductors, & insulators.

As on-aircraft bandwidth and EMI immunity and weight

reduction requirements continue to escalate in the new world

of Network Centric Warfare … develop and transition novel

and cost effective photonics technology to AFRL

Sensor(s)Memory

Switching

Processor

I/O

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Optoelectronics

Information

Processing

Multispectral Detector Arrays

Chip Scale Optical Networks

Compact Power

for Space

Terahertz Sources

& Detectors

Quantum Computing w/

Optical Methods

Integrated

Photonics, Optical

Components,

Optical Buffer,

Silicon Photonics

Reconfigurable Photonics and

Electronics (DCT)

Nanophotonics

(Plasmonics, Photonic

Crystals, Metamaterials) &

Nano-Probes & Novel

Sensing

Nanotechnology

Initiative

Nanofabrication, 3-D

Assembly, Modeling &

Simulation Tools

PM: Gernot S. Pomrenke LAB TASKS THROUGHOUT

2011 AFOSR SPRING REVIEWPORTFOLIO OVERVIEW – SUB-AREAS

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Scientific Challenges

-Light-matter interactions at the nanoscale between metals,

semiconductors, insulators & organics

-E&M fields & strong nonlinearities

-Scaling & cost-effective & flexible, “bottom-up” or “top-down”

nanomanufacturing

-Thermal management & 3D integration

-Efficiently convert optical radiation into localized energy, and

vice versa.

-Enhancing local photophysical processes

-Precise assembly & fabrication of hierarchical 3-D photonics

-Integrating plasmonics with nanostructured semiconductor

devices (enhance radiative recombination and generation

processes)

-Growth/fab and placement of nanowires and quantum dots

-Growth of III-Vs on Silicon

-Compact, high power THz sources & Rm Temp THz detectors

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Plasmonics – detector & imaging enhancement, energy harvesting,

interconnects, polarimeters

Terahertz imaging – non-ionizing, chemicals, explosives, NDE

Flexible electronics & photonics – non-conformal surfaces, engineered

matter, beyond-lattice match/mismatch, 3D electronics

SiGeSn system – new degrees of freedom

Low driving voltage and high-speed electro-optic EO modulators:

broadband communication, rf photonic links, millimeter wave imaging,

and phased-array radars

Frequency combs – optical GPS, optical metrology, optical atomic

clock, high precision spectroscopy

Transformational Opportunities

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Reconfigurable chip-scale photonic – All optical switching on a chip;

Multistage tunable wavelength converters and multiplexers; All optical

push-pull converters; Optical FPGA; Compact beam steering; Very

fine pointing, tracking, and stabilization control; Ultra-lightweight

reconfigurable antennas

Microwave/Millimeter Wave photonics, which merges radio-wave and

photonics technologies: high-speed wireless communications, non-

invasive & non-ionizing

radiation sensors,

spectroscopy and more

effective in poor weather

conditions.

Integrated photonics circuits – Photonic On-Chip Network, the

promise of silicon photonics, electronics and photonics on the same

chip (driver for innovation, economy, & avionics)

Transformational Opportunities

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Photonic Integrated Circuits Enable Future System

(Transformational Opportunities)

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Photonics at the Chip Level

Many functions require complex circuits structures that may benefit

from chip-scale fabrication techniques

-Exploit benefits of precise material growth techniques

-Exploit benefits of “Engineered” materials / metamaterials

-Achieve maximum performance, yield, and circuit complexity

-Combine multiple

-Provide a means to

exploit CMOS

-Leverage advantages of

lithographic design and

fabrication for

SCALABILTY in future

generations

functions on single chip

(Transformational Opportunities)

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Outline/Agenda

• Terahertz/mmW: source, detector, wavefront

engineering

• Nanophotonics: aperiodic structures,

nanolasers, sub-wavelength microcavities,

plasmonics

• Nanomembranes & flexible electronics

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Phase II STTR: Novel Terahertz Sources for Advanced Terahertz Power by InnoSys, Inc.

• Goal: to develop Novel Terahertz

Sources for Advanced Terahertz

Power.

• Demonstrated a novel terahertz

source design consisting of an

innovative sheet beam vacuum

electronic device.

• The innovative sheet beam

device is based on quasi-optical

power combining and offers

advantages of easy scaling with

frequency and power and

superior stability.

100 GHz sheet

beam TWT

prototype based

on quasi-optical

power combining

Higher frequency (i.e. 300+ GHz) will be the

next major step. The very small available

power of a MMIC is boosted by InnoSys

SSVDTM power amplifier to create advanced

Terahertz power.

Example:

> 2 mW driver power

30dB SSVD gain

and 3dB system loss

>1 W output

Sadwick and Hwu, InnoSys, Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah

sheet beam coupled cavity based TWT - unique method of quasi

optical power combining of vacuum electronic devices

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Rectifying THz Nanosensors, AEgis & Univ Buffalo, Fabrication of

Rectifying Nanosensors with Robust Electrical Nonlinearities

Photomechanical THz imaging technology, Agiltron & UMass

Lowell - Build and test uncooled, passive photomechanical THz imager

with a frequency range of 1–10 THz, and uncooled operation at rm tmp.

Metamaterials Based THz Focal Plane Arrays, DOLCE Technologies

& Boston Univ & Sandia - Metamaterial absorbers as a thin-film solution

compatible with microbolometer sensing technology

A Unique Focal Plane Array Detector for THz and mm Wave Imaging,

Intelligent Optical Systems Inc & RPI, Glow discharge detector on a

planar substrate

Surface plasmon enhanced tunneling diode detection of THz

radiation, ITN Energy Systems, Inc., & Colorado School of Mines -

Uncooled THz detectors for 1-10THz with a novel surface plasmon (SP)

resonant cavities with integrated metal-insulator-metal tunneling diodes

as detecting element.

AFOSR STTR: AF09-BT33 THz Focal Plane Arrays (Ph 1)

THz focal plane arrays for real-time (video-rate) THz imaging

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“Metasurface” collimator for THz QCLs: Design

Simulated electric-field distribution (|E|)

Design for o=100 m QCLs (artificial coloring used to identify deep and shallow grooves)

Original laser Laser with metasurface collimator

Wavefront engineering of terahertz quantum

cascade lasers using designer plasmonics

Federico Capasso,

Harvard University,

Cambridge, MA

Spoof SPPs: SPPs in the mid-IR

wavelength and beyond that mimic

SPPs at visible and near-infrared

wavelengths

Collimated device:

Far-field divergence angle: ~12o vertical,

~16o lateral

x6 increase in collected power

No change to threshold current and

maximum operating temperature

(Tmax=135K)

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Design and engineer photonic-plasmonic aperiodic

structures for broadband enhancement of light-

matter interactions

Understand aperiodic order in nanophotonics

Demonstrate enhanced emitters, solar cells, optical

sensors and nonlinear generation elements on a

chip

Fabricate and characterize new aperiodic systems

with high degree of rotational symmetry

Objectives

ApproachRigorous multiple scattering calculations in

aperiodic systems (GMT and T-matrix)

Fourier space engineering in complex media

E-beam fabrication of active photonic-plasmonic

media with varying degree of aperiodic order

Experimental characterization of scattering,

emission and nonlinear properties

Key FindingsDesigned and engineered broadband plasmon

scattering and enhancement (plasmonic nano-

clouds)

Demonstrated light emission enhancement in

aperiodic plasmon gratings

Introduced a novel approach for optical sensing

based on the colorimetric fingerprints of

aperiodic surfaces (spatial-spectral detection)

Discovered isotropic light scattering and vortex

modes in plasmonic spirals

Demonstrated the first pseudo-random laser

Prof. Luca Dal Negro, Boston University

Deterministic Aperiodic Structures for on-chip

nanophotonics & nanoplasmonics devices

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Light Emission Enhancement

• Broadband emission enhancement

• Controllable emission rates

• Enhanced light extraction

A. Gopinath et al., APL, 96, 071113 (2010)

• First demo of light emission enhancement in plasmonic quasi-periodic gratings

• X 4 enhancement with small variation in Er decay time – strongly reduced losses

Prof. Luca Dal Negro, Boston University

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Aperiodic fingerprint biosensing

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S. Lee, et al., APL, submitted

• First demonstration of biosensing via correlation

analysis of structural color changes in aperiodic

nanostructured surfaces;

• Developed a novel concept in optical sensing based on

aperiodic structures: spatial-spectral detection

Experimentally measured

scattering fingerprints

of Gaussian prime

nanopatterned surfaces

Autocorrelation analysis of the scattered radiation from

engineered aperiodic surfaces conveys fingerprinting info on

their dielectric environments (index perturbations)

at the nanoscale

Fabricated bio-chip

Prof. Luca Dal Negro, Boston University

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Measured far-field patterns Measured dark-field scattering

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Rotational symmetry in reciprocal space → isotropic multiple scattering of light

Experimentally measured far-field patterns • Isotropic “two-

dimensional” light scattering, polarization insensitive

Experimentally measured dark-field scattering • Planar

scattering loops and “optical turbulence” with plasmonic

vortex modes observed

Broad impact: thin-film solar cells (one high-impact paper

finalized)J. Trevino et al, submitted (2010)

L. Dal Negro et al, in preparationProf. Luca Dal Negro, Boston University

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Lasing in a pseudo-random medium

J. Yang et al, APL, accepted 2010

In collaboration with Hui Cao and Douglas Stone (Yale University)

• First demonstration of laser action

in deterministic aperiodic systems

Rudin

-Shapiro

Lasing modes trapped in air regions

• surface bio-sensing

• spectral fingerprinting and tagging

• robust, reproducible multi- lasersGaAs aperiodic nanopatterned membranes

Prof. Luca Dal Negro, Boston University

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featured as the cover of

the 2009 greeting card

of the Optical Society of

America,

as well as the cover of

Optics Express, 17, 23323-23331 (2009) Brown University PI: Jimmy Xu

Crossing the size threshold – smaller than its own wavelength

Optical resonators – smallest

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Plasmonic sub-wavelength microcavities- breaking new ground

Metallic nanoparticles at the field maxima of a whispering-gallery mode

Two students – Jeff Shainline and Stuart

Elston received the Forrest Prize and

Mildred Widgoff Prize, respectively, for

their work on these resonant cavities

Brown Univ, PI: Jimmy Xumetallic nanoparticles embedded in high-Q microcavities can enable

quality factors near 1000 and contribute to subwavelength confinement.

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Spiral shaped quantum cascade lasers have shown low threshold, single

mode behavior and reasonable output power but no directional emission.

Directional emission and universal far-field behavior from

whispering-gallery mode lasers with deformed resonators

Federico Capasso, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

-New deformed microcavity

resonators, which can

increase the output power

and directionality of

microcavity lasers without

degradation of the Q.

- Demonstrated Limaçon-

shaped microcavity laser

with properties such as a

strong directional emission,

relative insensitivity to

deformations and low

threshold because of the

ability to maintain a high Q-

factor

Limaçon-shaped microcavity laser

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Surface plasmon polariton interactions for near-field enhanced quantum detectors PI: Dan H. Huang AFRL/RV, Walter Buchwald AFRL/RY (STAR TEAM)

Objective

Motivation

Progress To Date

•Part of the SSA Grand Challenge

•Weak-signal detection

•Concentrated-field enhancement by 10-100X

Utilize surface-plasmon-polaritons (SPP) to

transform light into enhanced near field to

increase detectivity of IR-FPAs

Investigate SPP-induced enhancement from

field concentration in grating grooves and

2D array of holes in collaboration with RPI

Technical Approach

[1] J. C.-C. Chang, Z.-P. Yang, D. H. Huang, D. A.

Cardimona and S.-Y. Lin: “Strong light concentration

at the sub-wavelength scale by a metallic hole-array

structure”, Opt. Lett. 34, 106 (2009).

[2] D. H. Huang, G. Gumbs and S.-Y. Lin: “Self-

consistent theory for near-field distribution

and spectrum with quantum wires and a conductive

grating in terahertz regime”, J. Appl. Phys. 105,

093715 (2009).

[3] L. D. Wellems, D. H. Huang, T. A. Leskova and A. A.

Maradudin: “Optical spectrum and field distribution at

double-groove metallic surface gratings”, J. Appl.

Phys. 106, 053705 (2009).

[4] C.-C. Chang, Y. D. Sharma, Y.-S. Kim, S. Krishna, D.

H. Huang and S.-Y. Lin: “Surface plasmon enhanced

infrared photo-detector based on InGaAs quantum

dots”, Submitted to Nature Photonics.

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Caltech Plasmonic MURI 04 Team New Achievements from Fall 2007- 2010

• Nanoscale Plasmon Laser

• Omnidirectional Visible Frequency Negative Index

Materials

• Actively Tunable Infrared Metamaterials

• Axial Heterostructure Plasmonic Antennas

• Optomechanical Plasmonic Devices

• Plasmon Laser Designs

• Wavefront Engineering

• Mid-IR Hyperspectral Surface Plasmon Detectors

• High-Q surface plasmon whispering-gallery microcavity

• Negative Index Chiral Metamaterials

• Optical Negative Refraction in Bulk Metamaterials

• Low loss semiconductor plasmonic waveguides

• Plasmon-Induced Transparency in Metamaterials

• Plasmonic Alloys: Ag-Al, Ag-Au, Ag-Cu

• Design “Toolbox” for Long-Range SPP waveguides

Lead PI: Prof Harry Atwater, CalTech

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CMOS Foundry-made plasmonic waveguide modulator (plasMOStor)

Designed in collaboration with CEA-LETI, France

Fabricated on LETI CMOS line with 200 mm wafers

SOI-integrated waveguide modulator:

Fabricated by wafer bonding

Plasmonic mode perturbed by accumulated carriers in MOS structure

First wafers just completed & testing underway devices exhibit plasMOStor action in 1.2-1.6 m wavelength range

0.5µm

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MOS back contact

CEA-LETI

MOS back contact (Cu)

MOS Gate contact (Cu)

150nmCEA-LETI

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Harry A. Atwater (haa@caltech.edu)

Si waveguide

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Analytical modeling of plasmon-

enhanced luminescence

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dark higher-order plasmon modes (nonlocal effects not essential)

Intermediate size is best for quantum

efficiency

improvement (enhancement from 1% to 11%)

H. Mertens, A. Polman, J. Appl. Phys. 75, 105, 044302 (2009)

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Productivity (2 years)

• Publications: >35 (19 collaborative)

• Additional in preparation: 15

• Conference proceedings: 15

• Invited talks: 55

• Patent applications and disclosures: 3

• Companies started: 2

• PhDs graduated: 6

• Total students and postdocs: 22

• Of these on fellowship: 5

• Awards and recognition: 12

FY08 MURI - Crystalline Semiconductor

Nanomembranes: dimensions and features

Key Features: 5-500 nm thick,

currently >1cm2 lateral dimension; single

crystal, defect free, flexible, and ultra-

compliant; transferable, bondable, and

stackable; can be strain engineered

Lead PI: Prof Max Lagally, Univ Wisconsin

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E-Eye Camera

1 cm

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H.C. Ko et al, Nature 454, 748 (2008) (cover article)

Curvilinear Silicon Nanomembrane Electronics

Hemispherical Electronic Eyeball Camera

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Solid immersion imaging (NAIL microscopy) developed as part of the FY03 MURI

F49620-03-1-0379, “New Instrumentation For Nanoscale Subsurface Spectroscopy And

Imaging” - awarded two new, large IARPA grants for development of industry leading

tools in Circuit Analysis Technologies (CAT)– PIs Novotny, Bennet, Unlu.

AFRL/RY Direct hire of Univ Arizona graduate and Univ of Wisconsin SMART

Fellowship student, both from AFOSR/RSE sponsored research programs.

Additional Funding through NSA to grant FA9550-08-1-0101 with YIP Prof. Hochberg

at the Univ of Washington to explore "Low-Voltage Electrooptic Modulators for Cryogenic

Applications“.

Additional Funding by WPAFB AFRL/RX to FY04 Plasmonics MURI program

with Prof. Harry Atwater focused on Plasmonics for Tunable Infrared

Metamaterials and Mission Power Generation.

Research from fast-light single investigator program with Prof Selim Sharihar

at Northwestern Univ to SBIR program at Eglin AFB (Don Snyder, AFRL/RW) -

title “A FAST-LIGHT ENHANCED ACCELEROMETER”

Traycer Diagnostic Inc, AFOSR Phase 2 STTR terahertz detector

program – wins $3M state of Ohio funds + $1M AFRL

Recent Transitions

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AF08-BT08 Silicon-Based Nanomembrane Components Phase 1 & 2

AF08-BT18 Ultradense Plasmonic Integrated Devices and Circuits Phase 1

AF08-BT26 Frequency Agile Terahertz Detectors Phase 1 & 2

AF08-BT28 Reconfigurable Materials for Photonics Phase 1 & 2

AF08-BT30 Instrumentation for Nanoscale Spectroscopy Phase 1 & 2

AF09-BT25 Ultrafast Hybrid Active Materials & Devices for Compact RF Photonics Phase 1 & 2

AF09-BT33 Terahertz Focal Plane Arrays Phase 1 & 2

AF09-BT35 Nanotechnology and Molecular Interconnects Phase 1 & 2

AF09-BT39 Plasmonics for Energy Generation Phase 1 & 2

AF10-BT14 Nanomembrane Photonic, Electronic Components P1

AF10-BT34 Silicon Photonic System Integration P1

AF10-BT39 Compact Low Cost High Resolution Spectrometer P1

OSD10 T005 - Roll to Roll Nanoimprint P1

OSD10 T006 - Nano-patterning tools for photonics P1

Fabrication, Integration, Plasmonics, Terahertz

STTRs - Major Part of Portfolio

Recent Transitions (cont)

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Harish Subbaraman (Principal Investigator)Omega Optics Inc., Austin, TX teamed withUniversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Technology novelty and Uniqueness:

Integration of Optical and Electronic

components on a single flexible substrate.

Slow-light PCW provides a very large

time delay within a very short length of the

waveguide.

~1ns within 4cm of PCW

Flexible circuits provide unique device

advantages:

High resistance to impact

Conformal circuitry

Low weight

Low cost fabrication process

Silicon Nanomembrane-Based on 3-D Photonic Crystals

For Optical True Time Delay Lines having Integratability

with Printable FETs and Antenna Elements

Ex: Fully Printed 1x4

Phased Array Antenna

System on flexible

substrate

Recent Transitions (cont)

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Terahertz Sources & Detectors - limited funding from JIEDDO, DHS, DTRA, NSF; AFOSR

(2305DX) individual investigator & signif STTR efforts (compact sources & detectors, optical

approaches) [AGED meetings, professional mtg support & attendance]

Quantum Computing w/ Optical Methods – funding by NSA, NSF, DOE (NNSA, OS),

NIST, IARPA, ARO, ONR, DARPA; AFOSR(2305DX) efforts focused on optical/photonic

approaches to QC [regular meetings of the NSTC Subpanel on QIS, OSTP lead]

Reconfigurable Photonics and Electronics (DCT) – limited, dispersed funding; AFOSR

most significant and focused program - Investigating promising novel electronic

materials & nano-structures having potential for real-time, dynamically-large electrical &

optical & magnetic property tuning [annual meetings, AFRL/RV & RY major role]

Nanophotonics (Plasmonics, Photonic Crystals, Metamaterials), Nano-Probes & Novel

Sensing – funding by NSF, DARPA, & limited by ARO (DARPA Agent). AFOSR had first

national level program focused on nano-photonics, have been leading in funding chip

scale plasmonics, photonic crystals, nano-antennas, nano-emitters & modulators.

[Agency Reviews, NNI – ex. Aug 2010 wkshp]

Integrated Photonics, Optical Components, Optical Buffer, Silicon Photonics –

significant funding by DARPA, NSF. AFOSR has lead in silicon photonics, VCSELs, Q-

Dot emitters, slow-light, waveguides, optical phased-arrays, developing III-V

compound semiconductors. [Agency Reviews, NNI]

Other Organizations That Fund Related Work

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Robert Bedford, AFRL/RYD, Opto-Electronics for RF and EO: RF-Photonic

Links; VECSELs; compact single mode source for UAV LADAR.

Ken Vaccaro, AFRL/RYH, Optical Components Research: Single Photon

Detectors for NIR and MWIR - Long-range imaging laser radar, free space

optical links, and quantum cryptography.

Richard Soref & Walter Buchwald, AFRL/RYH, Nanostructured & Photonic-

Crystal Materials & Devices: microphotonic, nanophotonic and photonic-

crystal semiconductor materials & device designs for sensors.

Jed Khoury, AFRL/RYH, THz Source Development / Optical Signal Processing:

THz source development; Photorefractives (PR); Image Restoration.

Rob Nelson AFRL/RX (LRIR w/C. Lee); Composite Silicon-Organic Structures

for Chip Scale Optical Networks: organic materials with silicon based

nanophotonic active & passive elements.

AFRL Lab TasksRY, RV, RI, RX LRIRs - Major Part of Portfolio

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Vladimir Vasilyev AFRL/RYHA, Physically Reconfigurable Sensors: dynamic

material formed from an ensemble of coordinated of sub-cubic millimeter

robots (matter that can dynamically change its properties).

David Cardimona AFRL/RV; Weak-Signal Detection for Space Situational

Awareness & Space Surveillance Using Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystal

Cavities: EIT & PC for weak signal detection.

Joe Osman, AFRL/RITC, Electro-optical and optical components for

processor to processor interconnects.

James Lyke, AFRL/VSSE, Cellularity Motifs for Reconfigurable Systems:

reconfigurable discovery challenge thrust (DCT).

Dan H. Huang & Walter R. Buchwald AFRL/RV/RY, Surface Plasmon Polariton

(SPP) Interactions for Near-Field Enhanced Quantum Detectors and Tunable

THz Detection: utilize SPP to transform light into enhanced near field to

increase detectivity of IR-FPAs.

AFRL Lab Tasks cont.

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- Quantum Computing w/ Optical Methods QIS)

- Optical Memory/Storage & Image Processing

- Terahertz Sources & Detectors

- Nanophotonics

---- Plasmonics & Nonlinear Nanophotonics

---- Chip-scale, computation

- Nano-Probes

-Integrated Photonics, Silicon Photonics,

Reconfigurable Photonics (oxides)

- Nanofabrication (MURI & OSD STTR)

Interactions - Program Trends

AFRL – RY, RI, RX, RV, RW, 475th

AFRL – HPC Resources

EOARD – Gavrielides

AOARD – Erstfeld, Jessen, Seo,

Goretta

SOARD - Fillerup

AFOSR PMs

RSE: Reinhardt, Hottle, Weinstock,

Curcic, Nachman, Schlossberg

RSL: Bonneau, DeLong

RSA: C. Lee, L. Lee, Berman

RSPE: Lawal, Wu, Rifkin, E. Lee

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Conclusion:People Highlights - Awards

Harold Brown Basic Research

Award - Candace Lynch;

presentation by SECAF Michael

Donley (Schlossberg/Pomrenke)

Joint STAR TEAM Award – RY/RV –

Buchwald/Huang - Quantum

Detectors &Tunable THZ Detection

AF Modeling & Simulation

Award, RYD Team: Kovanis,

Grupen, Usechak, Bedford, &

Capt Terry: modeling complex

behavior of novel

semiconductor lasers

(Nachman / Pomrenke)

MacArthur

Fellowship

recipient: John

Rogers & Michal

Lipson

Julius Springer Prize for

Applied Physics 2010,

Federico Capasso

2010 Sackler

Prize in

Physics:Stefan

Meier & Mark

Brongersma

gernot.pomrenke@afosr.af.mil