Bay Photonics leading Innovate UK “PADME” project to bring packaging expertise to quantum single photon sources in a galaxy not so far away…
Bay Photonics are teaming up with the University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow on the Innovate UK funded PADME (A PAckageD source of Multiplexed Entangled photons) project with the goal of developing a laser based source of wavelength multiplexed entangled photons. At the heart of the light source is a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) ensuring a compact, robust device.
Light plays a pivotal role as a carrier for quantum signals and as the interface between the new, emerging quantum hardware and existing technology. Entangled photons – light particles strongly connected even when extremely far apart – can be routed over optical fibre communication networks and are required in several quantum cryptographic schemes as well as optically driven quantum computers.
At the centre of the PADME project is a novel PIC design capable of generating and extracting single photons, which will be fabricated here in the UK. To perform in the real world, this delicate semiconductor PIC requires mechanical, electrical, and optical connectivity, as well as thermal control. Bay Photonics will develop a high-reliability photonic packaging and system design. The packaged PIC will be housed alongside other components within a custom plug-and-play module as shown in the above image) ready for integration into end-user systems.
About Bay Photonics – Bay Photonics have been providing photonic packaging solutions since 2007 and have experience in hermetic packaging of photonic components such as laser die, detectors, and PICS. Bay are also experts in development and building small, robustly packaged micro-optic and optical fiber based photonic modules and lasers. Bay Photonics are located within the Electronics & Photonics Innovation Centre (EPIC), Paignton, Devon
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