FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS (Title,
Funding Amount, Length of Grant, Funding Programme)
Ultra-fast optical-switching for communications networks and optical computing
NZ$19,000 1 year (1997) University of
Auckland Research Committee
Development of a source of picosecond
optical pulses for communications
£12,000 3 years (1998 – 2001) DCU
Research Committee
Broadband Access Networks using hybrid radio/fibre systems
£40,000 2 years (1999 – 2001)
Enterprise Ireland and ESAT Telecom Applied Research
Research Institute for Networks and
Communications Engineering (RINCE)
£7.7 million 1999 - 2002 HEA Programme for Research in Third Level Institutes (PRTLI)
Original member of the 18 strong team involved in developing RINCE proposal.
£600,000 of funding for the Radio and Optical Communications
Group.
Developing Terabit networks using picosecond optical pulse sources
£3,800 1 year (2000) Enterprise Ireland
International Collaboration
Characterisation of fibre parameters of
ALLWAVE fibre
£12,000 1 year (2000) Lucent Technologies
Investigate of two photon absorption
micro-cavity semiconductor devices
£89,000 2 years (2000 – 2002)
Enterprise Ireland Basic Research
Generation and propagation of optical solitons around 1.4 microns
£10,000 1 year (2000) DCU Research
Committee
Characterization of optical data transmitters
for 40 Gbit/s photonic systems
€40,000 1 year (2002) Corvis Corporation
Innovative photonic devices for optical signal
processing in high speed communication systems (collaboration with TCD)
€330,000 (DCU Share €177,000) 3 years
(2002-2005) Enterprise Ireland Advanced Technology Research
All-optical processing in Terabit/s photonic
networks using semiconductor optical amplifiers (collaboration with University
of Limerick)
€994,000 (DCU Share €456,000) 4 years
(2003-2006) SFI Investigator Programme
High Speed (50GHz) characterisation
and packaging capability (Collaborative submission from 10 SFI Principal
Investigators)
€596,550 (DCU Share €59,655) SFI Equipment Supplement
Grant
Applications of fast wavelength tuneable lasers in future high speed optical networks
(collaboration with UCC and INTUNE Technologies)
€999,800 (DCU Share €812,700) 4 years (2004 –
2008) SFI Investigator Programme
Optical Source for use in broadband photonic
communication systems
€80,000 1 year (2004-2005) EI Proof
of Concept
Emerging Network Architectures strand within SFI
Centre for Telecommunications Value-chain driven Research
€26 million (CSET funding) (DCU Share €173,800) 5
years (2004 – 2008) SFI CSET
Development of 160 Gbit/s
Optical Network Test-Bed
€15,000 1 year (2004) School of
Electronic Engineering
High Speed Optical Signal Characterisation
€2,500 1 year (2005-2006) Enterprise
Ireland ULYSSES Scheme
Training of Secondary School Science Teachers in
SFI funded research groups
€19,500 3 months (2005) SFI STARS Programme
Micro-cavity Devices for processing in Optical
Networks (Collaboration with Trinity
College)
€360,000 (DCU Share €221,000) 2 years
(2006-2008) EI Commercialisation
Fund Technology Development
Investigation of optical feedback into photonic bandgap devices (Collaboration with Eblana
Photonics)
€128,000 2 years (2006-2008) SFI
Industrial Partnership Programme
Study of the origin and control of single photon
absorption in microcavity structures for optical thresholding applications (Collaboration with Trinity College)
€190,000 (DCU Share €85,000) 3 years
(2006-2009) SFI Research Frontiers Programme
Training
of Secondary School Science Teachers in SFI funded research groups
€18,700 3 months (2006) SFI STARS Programme
High-Speed
Optimized Pulse Source
€262,400 2 years (2006-2008) EI Commercialisation Fund Technology Development
Saturable
Absorbers for All-Optical Sampling
€106,000 1.5 years (2007-2008) EI Commercialisation Fund Proof of Concept
Hybrid
Radio over Fiber Systems for Ultra WideBand
Transmission Networks
€140,000 3 years (2007-2010) SFI Research
Frontiers Programme
Training
of Secondary School Science Teachers in SFI funded research groups
€19,000 3 months (2007) SFI STARS Programme
Nanoscience
and Nano-scale technologies for
€2,472,000 3 years (2007-2010) HEA Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI
Cycle IV)
PIFAS
(Photonic Integration; From Atoms to Systems)
€283,000 5 years (2007-2012) SFI Cluster Programme (in collaboration with Tyndall Institute and TCD)
Modelling
and Optimisation Optical Burst Switched Network
Architectures
€160,000 3 years (2008-2011) SFI Research
Frontiers Programme
Picosecond
Integrated Optical Pulse Source
€242,400 2.5 years (2008-2011) EI Commercialisation Fund Technology Development
Tuneable Lasers in Metro and Access Networks (Collaboration
with Tyndall, UCD, Intune, and Eblana)
€784,800 (DCU Share €512,700) 4 years (2010 – 2014) SFI Investigator Programme
Reconfigurable Optical Access
Networks using Coherent Transmission
€213,000 2.5 years (2010-2013) EU Marie Curie and IRCSET INSPIRE Fellowship for Dr. Robert Maher
Use
of Advanced Modulation formats in optical packet switched networks
€72,000 3 years (2008-2011) IRCSET
Postgraduate Scholarship for Mr. Tam N. Huynh
Wavelength Division
Multiplexed Optical Access Networks using Tunable Laser Transmitters
€74,000 4 years (2008-2012) China Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship for Mr. Rui Zhou
Optical Comb Sources for
Photonics Systems (OPTICOMB)
€86,800 1 years (2010 - 2011) Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund
Photonic
Generation of microwave and millimeter wave signals
€116,000 4 years (2010-2015)
IRCSET ICGEE Postgraduate Scholarship for Mr. Eamonn
Martin
Integrated
Nanoscience Platform for
€522,000 3 years (2011-2015) HEA Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI
Cycle V)
Photonics strand within SFI
Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTVR 2)
€20 million (CSET funding) (DCU Share ~€800,000) 5
years (2010 – 2015) SFI CSET
Coherent
Hetrodyne Optical Phase Interregator
(CHOPIN)
€232,400 2.5 years (2011-2014) EI Commercialisation Fund Technology Development