UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Enhanced Imaging

我们是一个由物理学家、工程师和计算机科学家组成的跨学科团队，致力于形成量子增强成像中心。我们的中心将世界领先的量子技术专家与全球行业领导者联系起来，根据行业优先事项和国家/国际经济和社会需求改变成像。我们将共同开发一系列跨越波长、时间尺度和长度尺度的量子增强型多维相机，从而开创具有突破性功能的成像和传感系统。创新将包括：-成像最小，或只有红外，照明；-即使视线被阻挡也能成像；-任何传统相机技术都无法实现的波长成像；以前所未有的灵敏度成像重力场；用量子光成像微观世界。将量子技术应用于成像，将创造出提供目前无法获得的功能的相机，从而改变国防、安全、交通、能源、航空航天和医疗/生命科学等领域的众多应用。我们是唯一一个解决成像需求的拟议中心，我们有超过30个行业合作伙伴坚定地致力于中心的目标。这些合作伙伴包括中小企业，如M-Squared激光器，跨国公司，包括泰雷兹，e2V和Selex，财团，包括CENSIS创新中心，英国弗劳恩霍夫，英国天文技术中心和政府机构，包括DSTL和国家物理实验室。我们将通过400万英镑的伙伴关系基金来支持这种工业参与和开发管道，该基金由我们的商业主导的机会小组管理，将支持与工业共同资助的项目。另外，苏格兰基金委员会还将投资300万英镑，在中心内创建创新空间，公司可以与学术团队共同定位，改进演示系统，将其TRL推进到完全竞争前的原型。我们将与英国科学中心网络合作，针对感兴趣的成年人举办量子技术展览，吸引更多的家庭观众和学校团体。该展览将为量子技术对我们生活、工作和交流方式的影响创造对话空间，让公众有机会向研究团队反馈他们的观点。该提案的关键优势在于，将基础广泛、经验丰富的大学联盟与成熟的行业关系相结合，并结合我们的行业合作伙伴所面临的挑战所形成的相关项目概念。

We are an interdisciplinary team of physicists, engineers, and computer scientists seeking to form a Hub in Quantum Enhanced Imaging.Our Hub will link world-leading quantum technologists with global industry leaders to transform imaging in alignment with industry priorities and national/international economic and societal needs. Together we will pioneer imaging and sensing systems with breakthrough functionality by developing a family of quantum-enhanced multidimensional cameras operating across a range of wavelengths, timescales and length-scales. Innovations will include: - imaging with the most minimal, or only infrared, illumination;- imaging even where line of sight is blocked; - imaging at wavelengths unachievable by any conventional camera technology;imaging gravity fields with unprecedented sensitivity; and- imaging the microscopic world using quantum light.Quantum Technologies applied to imaging will create cameras offering functionality that is currently not available, transforming a multitude of applications in defence, security, transport, energy, aerospace and the medical/life sciences. We are the only proposed Hub to address the imaging need, and we have over 30 industry partners firmly committed to the aims of the Hub. These partners range from SMEs such as M-Squared Lasers through to multinationals including Thales, e2V and Selex, and consortia including the CENSIS innovation centre, Fraunhofer UK, the UK Astronomy Technology Centre and government bodies including DSTL and NPL. We will support this industrial engagement and exploitation pipeline through a £4M Partnership Fund, managed by our business-led Opportunities Panel that will support jointly funded projects with industry. An additional £3M investment from the Scottish Funding Council will create innovation space within the Hub where companies can co-locate with the academic teams in refining demonstrator systems advancing their TRL to fully precompetitive prototypes.We will engage with the UK's Science Centre Network creating a quantum technology exhibition targeted to interested adults with appeal to wider family audiences and school groups. The exhibit will create space for dialogue about the impact of quantum technologies on the way we live, work and communicate, giving the public an opportunity to feed back their views to the research team. The key strength of this proposal is the combination of a broad-based, highly experienced university consortium with established industry relationships and the relevance of a programme concept shaped by the challenges facing our industry partners.