Photonics Technology Access Program - PTAP

在NSF和DARPA的支持下，光电子产业发展协会正在建立光子学技术访问计划(PTAP)，根据该计划，政府资金将用于采购商业化前的光子学实验研究原型(以下称为“原型”)，并在竞争性招标和评估过程中提供给合格的研究人员。这些商用前原型可以包括新材料、材料结构、器件和器件阵列、电路和模块。学术研究人员可以使用这些原型来推进光子学的发现和理解，并向行业提供反馈。教授们还可以在课堂演示和教学实验室中使用原型来加强教学、培训和学习。该计划的目标是提高大学获得新的实验研究原型的可能性。新的原型正在以越来越快的速度和频率发展，如果研究人员只有在商业上才能接触到它们，它们就落后于前沿技术一到两代人。该项目是以美日联合光电项目(JOP)的成功部分为蓝本的。尽管拟议中的计划本质上是国内的，但它有可能在以后扩大到国际上，将日本、欧洲和其他国家包括在内。这样的扩展可能会被认为是为了丰富该项目的产品，包括在美国没有的原型，并收集来自美国以外可能有不同观点的学术研究人员的反馈。基于OIDA在JOP的五年经验，包括管理由NSF和DARPA资金支持的国内竞争性招标和评估过程，OIDA完全有资格为该项目提供经纪人职能。OIDA还与大大小小的光电子公司和活跃于光子学的学术机构有很强的互动。为了进一步加强与PTAP支持者的联系，OIDA将为这一计划组建一个顾问委员会，成员包括来自学术界、工业界和政府的领先研究人员和教育工作者。光子学是信息时代的关键使能技术，它补充了国家纳米技术倡议和国家信息技术倡议的目标。拟议的光子学技术获取计划还有助于科学、工程和技术方面的劳动力发展，并使许多现有的光子学计划受益，包括政府在内。该计划还有助于行业，特别是那些可能会为其领先原型找到新应用的小公司。

ECS-0138518Arpad BerghThe Optoelectronics Industry Development Association is establishing under NSF and DARPA support the Photonics Technology Access Program (PTAP), where government funds are used to procure pre-commercial photonics experimental research prototypes (hereinafter referred to as "prototypes") to be made available to qualified researchers in a competitive solicitation and evaluation process. These pre-commerical prototypes may comprise novel materials, material structures, devices and device arrays, circuits and modules. Academic researchers can use the prototypes to advance discovery and understanding in photonics and provide feedback to the industry. Professors may also use the prototypes to enhance teaching, training and learning in class demonstrations and teaching laboratories. The goal of the program is to improve the availability of novel experimental research prototypes to universities. New prototypes are evolving at increasing rate and frequency, and if researchers have access to them only when they are available commercially, they are one or two generations behind leading edge technology.The program is modeled after the successful parts of the U.S.-Japan Joint Optoelectronics Project (JOP). Although the proposed program is domestic in nature, it has the potential to be expanded internationally at a later date to include Japan, Europe and others. Such an expansion might be considered to enrich the offerings of the program to include prototypes that are not available in the U.S. and to collect feedback from academic researchers from outside the U.S. who might have different perspectives. OIDA is well qualified to provide the broker function for this program based on its five years of experience with the JOP, including managing the domestic competitive solicitation and evaluation process supported with NSF and DARPA funds. OIDA also has strong interactions with large and small photonics companies and photonics-active academic institutions. To further strengthen its ties with PTAP constituencies, OIDA would assemble an Advisory Board for this program comprising leading researchers and educators from academia, industry and government.Photonics is a key enabling technology for the information age and it complements the goals of the National Nanotechnology Initiative and the National Information Technology Initiative. The proposed Photonics Technology Access Program also contributes to workforce development in science, engineering and technology and benefits numerous existing photonics programs thoughout the government. The program also helps industry, especially small companies who might find new applications for their leading prototypes.