Approach : The first thing to think about when bringing a new product to market is – is there a market to bring it to? We performed an analysis of the competition – drew up a table of performance specifications, and identified what would be required to deliver USPs. From this we could establish critical specifications, based on certain functional and performance criteria crucial to marketing the product.

The end result : Unitive delivered a coherent design specification based on market / clinical performance requirements. The company benefitted from this both in terms of moving the prototype forwards, but also for the product lifecycle. It enabled them to rapidly achieve a second generation prototype through engagement with a third party, large-scale electro-mechanical prototyping facility provider. We then evaluated the new prototype against the new specifications, moving it successfully to full product viability.

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Is sub-shot noise sensing and imaging a commercial prospect? Such was the fundamental question as addressed in this Quantum Technology project.

Collaborating with teams at University of Bristol including Dr Mateusz Piekarek, Dr Jonathan Matthews, and colleagues, as well as Dr Andy Collins of QTEC, on an Innovate UK funded project, UDA investigated the commercial possibilities for future applications for a sub-shot- noise photon pair light source (SSNPPS) which had been developed to prototype level by the Bristol team.

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The end result is a substantial and detailed report, representing the culmination of the year long project which responds to the call, articulated within Quantum Technologies programme (supported by the Blackett Review, The Quantum Age: technological opportunities), and through the Quantum Hub, QuantIC, to encourage organisations to identify routes for translation of Quantum Technologies from research to real world adoption.

The outcomes are comprehensive, based on a series of in-depth interviews, technical investigations, simulations, analyses, and market research and can be broadly summarised as delivering:

• identifying further detector development as a key and necessary element of the value proposition for a future positioning of SSNPPS
• a more thorough understanding of the need to ‘translate’ the language of physics, and more specifically that of quantum optics and information theory, to a language which is more easily communicated to industry in order to accurately identify true end user needs
• a future direction for further development of academic research
• a view of the most appropriate markets for future commercial exploitation of this technology, and some idea of the sizing and models of these markets

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QLS represents the successful culmination of research by the University of Bristol who have demonstrated imaging and sensing ‘beyond the shot noise limit’ using quantum technology.

Supported by QuantIC and the Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre, Bristol’s research opens a paradigm shift, providing a way to move beyond classical limitations of metrology which until now have been an inevitable part of all imaging and sensing.

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UDA recently completed a detailed study into the commercial feasibility for a new generation MEG device. Working with the world class research team at the University of Nottingham, Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, led by Dr Matthew Brookes, we provided an in-depth market analysis with recommendations and a roadmap to take the technology to market. The project was funded by Innovate UK and led by UDA. MEG is a non-invasive brain imaging system which reads magnetic fields produced from the activity of neurons in the brain. Technological breakthroughs by the team in Nottingham promise a new generation system which will be important for research into Mental Health, brain disorders, understanding neurodegenerative diseases, and paediatric epilepsy. Working on this project added significantly to our technical know-how in magnetic imaging and shielding, enhancing our portfolio of medical imaging system expertise.

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