Past Projects

From a list of more than 45 grants:

  1. Nov. 1993 to Oct. 1995: $645,510, “Lightening- advanced wavelength division multiplexed optical communication systems,” (with Ray Chen and J.C. Chen, UMBC) National Security Agency.
  2. Jul. 1995 to Jun. 1998: $749,786, “Photonic ATM front-end processor” (PI and with co-PI Prof. H. J. Chao atPolytechnicUniversity) DARPA\AFOSR.
  3. May 15, 1996 to Dec. 31, 2001, $2,499,977, “Fabrication and Demonstration of a WDM ATM Multicast Switch” (PI With co-PI Prof. H. J. Chao,PolytechnicUniversity) DARPA\AFOSR\DDR&E.
  4. Aug. 1, 1996 to July 31, 1998 $343,102, “Request for an MOCVD crystal growth reactor” DURIP program DOD.
  5. June 1, 2000 to Aug. 31, 2006: $1,465,437, “Efficient, wideband, integratedlightwavedevices for RF Transmission” DARPA/ARL.
  6. Sep. 1, 2001 to Aug. 31, 2004, $201,852, “Broadband Optoelectronic Device Projects”,AdTechOptics.
  7. Nov. 1, 2001, to Oct 31, 2005, $270,002, “Ultra Broadband Amplifying Material Researches”, National Science Foundation.
  8. Oct. 30, 2002 to Apr. 30, 2005, $131,797, “All optical waveform generator systems”, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs.
  9. May 1, 2005 to Apr. 30, 2010, UMBC $1,000,000 “Quantum Imaging – New Methods and applications”, ARO MURI (Co-PI).
  10. Sep 15, 2006 to Sep 14, 2008, $180,000. “High-Performance, Radiation-Hard, 2-D, Near-Infrared, Avalanche Photodiode Arrays”,AdtechPhotonics, NASA STTR Phase II.
  11. May 1, 2006 to May 1, 2015, $17,721,624 (UMBC $2,400,000)“Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE)”, NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) (Co-PI).
  12. Jan. 15, 2007 to Jan. 14, 2010, $799,991 “High-Efficiency and High-Power Mid-Wave InfraredQuantum Cascade Lasers”Darpa EMIL Program.
  13. Apr. 15, 2008 to Apr. 14, 2012, $997,000, “Request of a MOCVD Reactor for High-Throughput, High-Performance Quantum Cascade Laser Fabrications,” ONR DURIP Program.
  14. Sep 9, 2011- Aug. 31, 2012,$139,991“MD POCA Development of Tunable High-power Low-threshold Quantum Cascade Lasers”, ARL -MARYLAND PROOF OF CONCEPT ALLIANCE.