2026 Awardees
The OEDIT Translational Quantum Research Seed Grants incentivize quantum science and technology innovations launched from the lab to accelerate them along the development path to new programs and businesses. The awarded projects for 2026 are listed below.
View 2026 Awardee Announcement
Testing a Commercial Optical Atomic Clock at NIST/JILA for Optical Clock Networks
- Industry PI: Josue Davila-Rodriguez, Stable Laser Systems
A Chip-Scale Source of Heralded Single Photons for Quantum Optical Networks
- Academic PI: Juliet Gopinath, CU Boulder
- Academic Co-PI:Dileep Reddy, NIST, CU Boulder
Low-Swap, Broadband Frequency Combs for Next-Generation Positioning, Navigation and Timing
- Industry PI: Tsung-Han Wu, Chi-3 Optics
- Academic Co-PI:Diddams Lab, CU Boulder
CryoOps: A Virtual Reality Trainer for Cryostat Operation and Maintenance
- Industry PI: Nitin Kumar, Krida LLC
- Academic Co-PI:Meenakshi Singh, Colorado School of Mines
Perkinamine Electro-Optic Polymer Integrated into Qpics’ Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits
- Industry PI: Chris Myatt, QPICs
- Academic Co-PI:Aju Jugessur, COSINC, CU Boulder
A Suspended Tantala Platform for Atom-Photon Interfacing and Mid-Infrared Sensing
- Academic PI: Shuo Sun, JILA, CU Boulder
- Industry Co-PI:David Carlson, Octave Photonics
Nonlinear Modeling of Frequency Comb Translation for Quantum Interfaces
- Industry PI: Eric Stanton, EMode Photonix LLC
- Academic Co-PI:Diddams Lab, CU Boulder
Breath Analysis with Optical Frequency Comb for Lung Cancer Detection
- Industry PI: Eva Yao, Flari Tech
- Academic Co-PI:Ye Group, JILA, CU Boulder
All awards are $50,000 and for a duration of 12 months.