Grants and Contributions
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In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$195,000.00
Dec 1, 2021
Academia
Optical filters for silicon nitride quantum photonic chips
984775
This project is part of the Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits for Quantum Interconnects Small Teams, Round 2 (2020) project whose overarching goal is to develop a chip-based platform where entangled photons can be generated and distributed between nodes in a quantum network, using nanowire-based quantum dots fully integrated on a chip manufactured in the silicon nitride (SiN) material platform.
This sub-project/collaboration with the University of Malaga will develop design methodology for filters, for the Small Teams project. The specific goal of this sub-project is to develop and demonstrate a versatile and flexible methodology that allows the design of filters with a set of given target performance parameters. To achieve this flexibility, the project team will focus on further developing their existing expertise in complex Bragg filter design and add the essential capabilities of thermal tuning and reconfiguring of the filter response.
$198,000.00
Nov 9, 2020
Academia
Metamaterial waveguides for on-chip spectral control
960280
Integrated optical filters are essential building blocks for applications as diverse as datacom and telecom networks, optical signal processing, quantum optics and astrophotonics, where spectral control of multi-wavelength signals is required.
Over the last decade, sidewall-corrugated Bragg gratings have emerged as the preferred nanophotonic solution for spectral shaping and filtering. However, the high-index contrast of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform imposes strict limitations
on the corrugation depths needed for narrowband filters that cannot be achieved even with state-of-the-art lithographic patterning available in silicon photonics foundries. The Project will utilize subwavelength grating (SWG) metamaterials, an
enabling technology for optimizing and customizing the performance of integrated optical devices, to achieve spectrally engineered multi-line integrated filters based on Bragg gratings in silicon and silicon nitride metamaterial waveguides, with
potentially unprecedented performance, for telecom applications.
$264,000.00
Mar 1, 2020
Academia
High-performance metamaterial off-chip couplers for telecom and free-space optical communications
945905
Integrated nanophotonic silicon devices offer attractive advantages not only for the traditional datacom and telecom, but also for recent trends such as beam steering for free-space optical communications. One of the main difficulties when developing optical integrated structures is the coupling of light from the chip to the optical fiber or to free space. Specifically, highly efficient devices with broad spectral bandwidths are required—for example, to cover multiple wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) channels at near-infrared wavelengths or to enable highly directive beam steering with two-dimensional optical phased arrays
(OPAs). In this project, we plan to utilize subwavelength grating (SWG) metamaterials, which have become a key, NRC-led technology for optimizing and customizing the response of optical devices, to achieve silicon nanophotonic offchip couplers with unprecedented performance. The experimental validation of the proposed structures will pave the way for real-life beam steering and telecom applications that will be ready for the high demands of the modern world.