News - Bay Photonics

October 23, 2024 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Bay Photonics, Phlux Technology, Redwave Labs and Chase Cryogenics collaborate on £1.5M project to develop QKD receivers

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...

August 31, 2023 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Bay Photonics leads Semiconductor Skills project: partners with South Devon College to create PICPAC, a first-of-its-kind project

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...

August 3, 2023 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Bay Photonics, Phlux Technology and the University of Sheffield Part of Consortium Addressing UK Semiconductor Skills Shortages

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...

April 16, 2023 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Bay Photonics leads industrial initiative to develop robust Quantum Technology laser sources

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...

February 1, 2023 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

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...

January 25, 2023 In Our News & Events By Andrew Robertson

Bay Photonics joins industrial initiative on mid-IR sensing innovation to detect greenhouse gases

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...

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 30, 2021 In Our News & Events By BayPhotonics Admin

New ultra-sensitive high quantum efficiency balanced detector development collaboration at Bay Photonics

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...

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...