Sub-Shot Noise Quantum Technology Sensing and Imaging
PHOBOS – Sub-Shot Noise Quantum Technology Sensing
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