Grants and Contributions

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Integrated photonics, and in particular silicon-based photonics, is a rapidly developing technology showcasing immense potential in fields such as communication, sensing, and ultrafast analog computing. However, the quest for innovative devices that are more compact, efficient, and multifunctional presents new challenges. The high refractive index of silicon facilitates strong light confinement, which leads to compact devices. Yet, this same property means even tiny structural changes, on the order of a few nanometers, can significantly impact device performance. Such nanometer scale variations are strongly influenced by factors such as the feature size, pattern density, and process uniformity across the die or wafer. Controlling the device fabrication to such a degree of precision is pushing the limit of current fabrication technologies. In silicon photonics, this is the dominant cause for device performance degradation. Notably, the performance of fabricated on-chip integrated silicon photonic components and devices deviates from the theory due to imperfect fabrication and other external factors. Using a variety of machine learning approaches that include surrogate models, inverse models and transfer learning, the project will develop methods to correlate the actual shape of the fabricated devices to the optical measurement data. The devices in questions are individual grating couplers and coupler-based optical phased arrays. For the former, the results can be used by various fabrication facilities to perform higher quality process calibrations than what is currently available. For the latter, the resulting models will allow for a significantly faster calibration of a fabricated OPA.

The goal of this project is to demonstrate the key elements of satellite-based optical communication as initially envisioned by the Optical SatCom Consortium (OSC). This will be the first demonstration of an optical satellite downlink to a Canadian location. The Optical Ground Receiver (OGR) will be augmented to allow for both communications as well as atmospheric measurement functions. The augmented OGR will link to current in-orbit satellites. A 1550 nm communications link will be maintained over a 1-year period providing a rich set of data and expertise on the establishment of optical satellite downlinks in a Canadian context. Measured data collected on the fluctuations of the dynamic atmospheric channel while tracking a low-Earth orbiting satellite are currently unavailable for any location. Establishing this data set will provide an important and unique advantage to Canadian academic and commercial efforts in developing essential optical satcom technologies to the direct benefit of Canadians.

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

This project will enable the Organization to administer a program for the benefit of IRAP clients. The Organization will receive referrals from ITAs, and the organization will provide competitive technical intelligence to increase the client’s capabilities.