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Innovate UK’s £1.5 million MARCONI project is set to transform the landscape of quantum key distribution (QKD) by developing and demonstrating high-fidelity, modular, and scalable receiver modules. QKD is a secure communication method that leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to generate and distribute cryptographic keys between two parties, ensuring that any attempt at eavesdropping can be detected. The project aims to introduce two

    The PICPAC project, totalling £471,000, was awarded by Innovate UK as part of the recent “Semiconductor industry skills and training” competition and offers an unprecedented opportunity to nurture the future of photonic semiconductors, bringing a beacon of innovation to Britain\’s south-west shores. In a milestone for UK science and technology, Bay Photonics, has

Bay Photonics and Phlux Technology are delighted to be part of a consortium to have been awarded an Innovate UK funded grant (~£400k), to address the semiconductor skills shortage in the UK. The project is led by the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and the Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering Education at the University of

  Bay Photonics recently joined forces with the NPL in the Innovate UK funded quantum technologies project, Q-Pods.Q-Pods is a dedicated mechanically and thermally stable optoelectronics module to drive magneto-optical traps (MOT) used in several UK Quantum projects. The Q-Pods project will considerably reduce the SWAP-C by holistically integrating all the essential components into a

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

            Bay Photonics recently joined forces with quantum sensing start-up QLM and control electronics specialist, Redwave Labs, in the Innovate UK funded gas sensing project, Q3MD. As part of the project, Bay Photonics will be developing hermetically sealed TO packages able to cool the detector chips to below -50C. For

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 be used in quantum computing, LIDAR, free space optical communications,

Bay Photonics announces the kick-off of the HiQuED (High Quantum Efficiency Detector) project. The HiQuED project is funded by Innovate UK and led by Bay Photonics. Connecting Photonic expertise from across the UK, the Universities of Glasgow & Strathclyde, CPI-UK and Red Wave Labs will be working alongside Bay Photonics to design and fabricate a