{"id":661,"date":"2025-09-22T18:44:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum-leap-initiative.creol.ucf.edu\/?page_id=661"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:37:50","slug":"funding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/quantum-leap-initiative\/funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Funded Research Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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ExpandQISE: Track 2: Leveraging synthetic degrees of freedom for quantum state engineering in photonics chips<\/em>, NSF, Former PI: A. B. Khanikaev<\/strong> (CREOL); Co-PI: A. Blanco-Redondo<\/strong> (CREOL) and three others. Amount: $1.2M. Period: 2024-2026.<\/p>

Leveraging synthetic degrees of freedom for quantum state engineering in photonic chips<\/em>, National Science Foundation, award number 2328993. First PI: Vinod Menon (CUNY); Co-PI: A. Blanco-Redondo<\/strong> (CREOL). Amount for UCF: $1,463,574. Period: 10\/2023-09\/2028.<\/p>

Sources of Quantum Light in Hollow-Core Fibers,<\/em>\u00a0University of Central Florida, Seed Funding. First PI: A. Blanco-Redondo<\/strong> (CREOL). Amount for UCF: $ $49,537.00. Period: 02\/2024-02\/2026.<\/p>

Mid-Infrared Topological Metaphotonics<\/em>, AFRL CLAWS, PI: A. B. Khanikaev<\/strong> (CREOL). Amount: $780k. Period: 2024-2026.<\/p>

Topological Photonics and Structured Modes for Robust and Tailored Light-Matter Interactions<\/em>, ONR, PI: A. B. Khanikaev<\/strong> (CREOL). Amount: $317k. Period: 2024-2026.<\/p>

High-index Hybrid-mode Nanophotonic Infrared Detectors<\/em>, Sandia National Laboratories. PI: L. Nordin<\/strong> (MSE\/CREOL). Amount: $450K. Period: 07\/2024-06\/2027.<\/p>

PREM: Center for Quantum Material Innovations and Educational Excellence (CQ-MIEE)<\/em>, National Science Foundation, award number 2424976. First PI: Saiful Khondaker (Physics). Co-PI: A. Blanco-Redondo<\/strong> (CREOL) and others. Amount for UCF: $4,200,000. Period: 09\/2024-08\/2030.<\/p>

Renewal: The Simons Collaboration in Mathematics and Physical Sciences: Harnessing Universal Symmetry Concepts for Extreme Wave Phenomena<\/em>, The Simons Foundation, Co-PI: A. B. Khanikaev<\/strong> (CREOL). Amount for UCF: $450k. Period: 09\/2024-08\/2027.<\/p>

Quantum Entanglement in Frequency Combs<\/em>, UCF\/Office of Research. PI: Y. Salamin<\/strong> (CREOL). Amount: $12k. Period: 02\/2025-11\/2025.<\/p>

High-speed and high-extinction ratio optical switching for cavity quantum Tomography<\/em>, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from ORAU. PI: Y. Salamin<\/strong> (CREOL). Amount: $10k. Period: 08\/2025-07\/2026.<\/p>

Squeezing-enhanced homodyne detection with traveling-wave optical parametric amplifiers in lithium niobate nanophotonics – Phase 1<\/em>, DARPA, PI: R. Nehra (U. Massachusetts); Co-PI: S. Fathpour<\/strong> (CREOL). Amount: $450k. Period: 08\/2025-01\/2026.<\/p>

Symmetry Engineered Photonics Quantum Nano-Materials for Generation and Control of Classical and Quantum Light<\/em>, DOD Army, PI: A. B. Khanikaev<\/strong> (CREOL). Amount: $1M. Period: 03\/2025-03\/2029<\/p>

Extreme Electro-Momentum Metamaterials for Directional Sensing and Phonon Transport<\/em>, DOD MURI, PI: Andrea Al\u00f9; Co-PI: A. B. Khanikaev <\/strong>(CREOL). Amount for UCF $1.25M. Period: 08\/2025-08\/20230.<\/p>

NSF-AFRL REFLEQTS: Floquet-engineered polaritonic quantum states for infrared single photon detection and sensing<\/span><\/em>, NSF-ARFL, PI: A. B. Khanikaev<\/strong> (UCF CREOL); Co-PIs: Andrea Al\u00f9 (CUNY), Qiang Lin (U. Rochester), and Bo Zhen (U. Penn). Amount: $2M. Period: 08\/2025-08\/2028.<\/span><\/p>

Nanophotonic Mid-wave Infrared Avalanche Photodiodes<\/em>, Air Force Office of Scientific Research. PI: L. Nordin<\/strong> (MSE\/CREOL). Amount: $450K. Period: 01\/2026-01\/2029.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Funded Research Projects (current) ExpandQISE: Track 2: Leveraging synthetic degrees of freedom for quantum state engineering in photonics chips, NSF, Former PI: A. B. Khanikaev (CREOL); Co-PI: A. Blanco-Redondo (CREOL) and three others. Amount: $1.2M. Period: 2024-2026. Leveraging synthetic degrees of freedom for quantum state engineering in photonic chips, National Science Foundation, award number 2328993.…","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-661","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/quantum-leap-initiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/quantum-leap-initiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/quantum-leap-initiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/quantum-leap-initiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/quantum-leap-initiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/quantum-leap-initiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/quantum-leap-initiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/quantum-leap-initiative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}