Andrew Robertson, Author at Bay Photonics

April 22, 2022 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Bay Photonics delivers first packaged SPADs for AIRQKD consortium

Bay Photonics have packaged and shipped the first Single Photon Avalanche Photodiode (SPAD) prototypes for the Innovate UK AIRQKD consortium. A SPAD is a semiconductor based device capable of detecting very low levels of light down to the level of individual photons. SPAD detectors can...

November 2, 2021 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Bay Photonics exhibiting at this year’s National Quantum Technologies Showcase on Friday 5th November in London

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August 26, 2021 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Bay Photonics ships single frequency SIDEWINDER lasers for quantum applications

In August, Bay Photonics shipped three SIDEWINDER lasers (pictured) to the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics (F-CAP) to be integrated with stabilization electronics designed by Redwave Laboratories, the 3rd partner in the project consortium. The single frequency output is provided by an external cavity diode...

July 15, 2021 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Bay Photonics Expands As Quantum Business Grows

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April 28, 2021 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Packaging Technologies Meet Quantum Opportunities

Dr Andrew Robertson, Head of Research & Innovation at Bay Photonics is interviewed by Palomar Technologies on the critical role photonic packaging will play for the future commercialization of quantum enabled applications such as quantum computing, QKD, optical magnetometers, gravimeters and highly accurate inertial navigation...

March 29, 2021 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Bay Photonics hits milestone in SIDEWINDER quantum project

The SIDEWINDER project, funded by Innovate UK, has the goal of developing a robust, industrialized, narrow linewidth laser for driving quantum processes. The role of Bay Photonics in the project is to take the breadboard laser prototype, created by the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics...

November 6, 2020 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

QFoundry: Bay Photonics sets packaging standards for National open-access quantum device foundry

QFoundry is a £5.8M Innovate UK funded project running for 36 months and bringing together the UK's most established supply chains for quantum semiconductor components to address critical challenges in manufacturing and deliver a National (and World's first) open-access Quantum device foundry. Bay Photonics are...

November 5, 2020 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

SPIDAR: Bay Photonics packaging quantum photonic components integrated into imaging systems for autonomous vehicles

Bay Photonics are partner in the Innovate UK funded project "Single Photon Infrared Imaging, Detection and Ranging" (SPIDAR), that will develop novel range-finding and 3D imaging systems for driver assistance in the autonomous vehicles of the future.The cameras are based on detecting single photons (light...

November 4, 2020 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Bay Photonics participating in £7.5M AIRQKD project to develop quantum secured telecommunications

Bay Photonics has joined forces with BT as well as high-tech Cambridge spin-out Nu-Quantum, Belfast-based Angoka, Bristol-based Duality Quantum Photonics and London-based Arqit, to combine multiple cutting-edge quantum technologies as part of a world’s-first trial of end-to-end quantum-secured communications for 5G and connected cars. Kicking-off...

Author:Andrew Robertson