Quantum Integrated Nonlinear Technologies for Enabling Stable, Scaleable, Engineered Commercial Exploitation (QuINTESSEnCE)

用于实现稳定、可扩展、工程商业开发的量子集成非线性技术 (QuINTESSEnCE)

• 批准号: EP/M024539/1
• 负责人: Peter Smith
• 金额: $ 192.33万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FM024539%2F1
• 关键词: Quantum; Integrated; Nonlinear; Technologies; Enabling

This Fellowship application will provide support for a leading Photonics Engineering Academic, Prof Peter Smith, University of Southampton, to build a research team to address industry and academic led challenges in Quantum Technologies. The project is entitled QuINTESSEnCE - standing for Quantum Integrated Nonlinear Technology Enabling Stable, Scaleable Engineered for Commercial Exploitation. This title reflects our desire to develop technology that will be stable and applicable in real-world applications, and move that towards developing a supply chain to take Quantum Technologies towards commercial reality.The work will focus on building optical components and photonic manufacturing capability for the next generation of science and, by working closely with companies, to provide the components needed to underpin the application of quantum enabled technology to address a wide range of societal and economic challenges. Two core technologies will be developed, the first being lasers that are exceptionally stable and low noise, and ideally suited for use in a wide range of science applications. The second technology will see the development of new optical materials capable of converting the wavelength (colour) of laser light, efficiently and cheaply. The approach will use high reflecting cavities to enhance the light fields, giving high conversion efficiency and, importantly, exploiting the laws of quantum science to create photons with unique properties.The highlight of the project will be manufacturing demonstrators of our quantum enabled optical technology to take to companies and end-users that will act to prove their value. Two demonstration areas are planned, firstly detectors that will be able to see extremely low light levels in the infra-red without the need for expensive cooling to prevent noise. The second will be to use our lasers and cavities to show advantage in measuring optical fibre links while they are in use, improving data reliability on the internet and increasing down-load speeds.Detectors and other devices will be based on fundamental quantum properties, in which two photons can be fused together to create a single photon with higher energy but preserving fundamental quantum information in the photons themselves.

该奖学金申请将为南安普顿大学领先的光子学工程学者Peter Smith教授提供支持，以建立一个研究团队，解决量子技术中的行业和学术挑战。该项目名为QuINTESSEnCE -代表量子集成非线性技术，实现稳定，可扩展的商业开发。这个头衔反映了我们开发稳定且适用于现实世界应用的技术的愿望，并将其推向开发供应链，将量子技术推向商业现实。这项工作将专注于为下一代科学构建光学组件和光子制造能力，并通过与公司密切合作，提供支持量子技术应用所需的组件，以应对广泛的社会和经济挑战。将开发两项核心技术，第一项是非常稳定和低噪声的激光器，非常适合广泛的科学应用。第二项技术将开发能够有效和廉价地转换激光波长（颜色）的新光学材料。该方法将使用高反射腔来增强光场，从而提供高转换效率，更重要的是，利用量子科学定律来创造具有独特属性的光子。该项目的亮点将是制造我们的量子光学技术的演示品，以向公司和最终用户展示，并采取行动证明其价值。计划有两个示范区，首先是能够看到红外线中极低亮度的探测器，而不需要昂贵的冷却来防止噪音。第二个目标是利用我们的激光器和谐振腔，在测量使用中的光纤链路时显示优势，提高互联网上的数据可靠性，并提高下载速度。探测器和其他设备将基于基本量子特性，其中两个光子可以融合在一起，产生一个具有更高能量的单个光子，但保留光子本身的基本量子信息。

项目成果

Direct UV written waveguides and Bragg gratings in doped planar silica using a 213 nm laser

• DOI: 10.1049/ell2.12126
• 发表时间: 2021-03
• 期刊: Electronics Letters
• 影响因子: 1.1
• 作者: Q. S. Ahmed;P. Gow;C. Holmes;P. Mennea;James W. Field;R. Bannerman;Devin H. Smith;C. Gawith;Philip Smith;J. Gates

Micromilled silica REfractometer with Nanoscale Surface Roughness

具有纳米级表面粗糙度的微研磨二氧化硅折射计

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Carpenter L G

Short single-frequency self-pulsing Brillouin-Raman distributed feedback fiber laser.

短单频自脉冲布里渊拉曼分布反馈光纤激光器。

• DOI: 10.1364/oe.445876
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Optics express
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Bannerman RHS

Ductile Mode Dicing for Integrated Optics Facet Preparation

用于集成光学刻面制备的延性模式切割

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Carpenter L G

Enhancement of nonlinear functionality of step-index silica fibers combining thermal poling and 2D materials deposition.

结合热极化和二维材料沉积增强阶跃折射率石英光纤的非线性功能。

• DOI: 10.1364/oe.410877
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Optics express
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: De Lucia F