Praseodymium Laser Architecture Investigation and Demonstrator (PLAID)

镨激光结构研究和演示器 (PLAID)

• 批准号: 102807
• 金额: $ 53.27万
• 依托单位: SKYLARK LASERS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=102807
• 关键词: Praseodymium; Laser; Architecture; Investigation; Demonstrator

It is difficult to overestimate the impact of electronic computers on modern society – and yet, just a few decades ago, computer technology was a creature of the research laboratory due to their enormous complexity, power requirement, and cost. The uptake of such technology by wider, non-specialist society was only possible once improvements in the size, cost and performance of the subsystems upon which computers depend had been realised. Quantum technology finds itself at a similar junction. These systems are now a reality and hold enormous potential to revolutionise our lives, but they are only found in research laboratories because they depend upon very expensive, very large laser systems. In this project, we will reduce the size and cost of these critical components enormously, without losing performance, in order to place the UK at the vanguard of QT development and commercialisation.

很难高估电子计算机对现代社会的影响-然而，就在几十年前，由于其巨大的复杂性，功耗要求和成本，计算机技术是研究实验室的产物。只有在计算机所依赖的子系统的尺寸、成本和性能得到改善之后，才有可能让更广泛的非专业社会接受这种技术。量子技术发现自己处于类似的交界处。这些系统现在已经成为现实，并拥有巨大的潜力来彻底改变我们的生活，但它们只在研究实验室中发现，因为它们依赖于非常昂贵，非常大的激光系统。在这个项目中，我们将在不损失性能的情况下，大大减少这些关键部件的尺寸和成本，以便使英国成为QT开发和商业化的先锋。