Grants and Contributions

Commercialization and innovation activities: The project aims to increase the sales and innovation potential of this company that designs and commercializes an energy management system.

Equipment acquisition: The project aims to increase the competitiveness and production capacity of a company specializing in the design, manufacture and installation of signs.

Canada's Fisheries Fund will transform and drive innovation in the fish and seafood sector in Canada with a focus on developing the sector to better meet growing market demands for sustainably sourced, high-quality fish and seafood products.

Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture

Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture

All-weather optical satellite communication (satellite-to-ground and ground-to-satellite) still remain a challenge due to the laser wavelengths used in the current optical satellite communication systems, mainly located in visible and near-infrared (NIR) wavelength ranges, which cannot penetrate through fog, rain and snow. Optical satellite communication at mid-infrared (MIR) wavelengths is desired since the light scattering is much less for wavelengths in MIR than for NIR wavelengths. However, due to the lack of mid-IR photonic devices (i.e. lasers, modulators and detectors), most of the optical satellite communication experiments to date are demonstrated at visible and NIR wavelengths. This project will develop detectors that are more sensitive to NIR light, and detectors that operate in the MIR. The new technologies that will be developed include multispectral MIR photodetectors and quasi-phase matched (QPM) optical nonlinear conversion.

This project focuses on the development of single-photon avalanche detector (SPAD)-based detection system and Kramer-Kronig optical receiver for free space optical (FSO) systems. The SPAD detection systems based on low-cost, high-reliability mainstream silicon technologies will be developed. In principle, SPADs can detect a single photon and so are expected to be the most sensitive detector for FSO systems. The end result of this proposed work will be the optimum SPAD detection system. Currently, FSO systems employ direct-detection receivers in which photo-current is proportional to optical intensity and hence, the phase of optical signal is lost. In this project, the team will extract the phase of optical signal from intensity using a Kramer-Kronig receiver. This additional degree of freedom enables to modulate the phase of the optical carrier which enhances the data rate of FSO system. The extra-information provided by the optical phase enables the accurate channel compensation helping to improve performance.

The objectives of the Program are: • promoting volunteerism among seniors; • engaging seniors in the community through mentoring of others; • expanding awareness of elder abuse, including financial abuse; • supporting social participation and inclusion of seniors; and • providing capital assistance for new and existing community projects and/or programs for seniors.

The objectives of the Program are: .• promoting volunteerism among seniors; .• engaging seniors in the community through.mentoring of others; .• expanding awareness of elder abuse, including.financial abuse; .• supporting social participation and inclusion of.seniors; and .• providing capital assistance for new and existing.community projects and/or programs for seniors. .

The objectives of the Program are: .• promoting volunteerism among seniors; .• engaging seniors in the community through.mentoring of others; .• expanding awareness of elder abuse, including.financial abuse; .• supporting social participation and inclusion of.seniors; and .• providing capital assistance for new and existing.community projects and/or programs for seniors. .