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

这项奖学金申请将为南安普顿大学的领先光子工程学者Peter Smith教授提供支持，以建立一个研究团队，以应对业界和学术界在量子技术领域提出的挑战。该项目名为QuintEssence--支持用于商业开发的稳定、可扩展的量子集成非线性技术。这个头衔反映了我们希望开发稳定和适用于现实世界应用的技术，并朝着开发供应链的方向发展，使量子技术走向商业现实。工作将专注于为下一代科学建立光学部件和光子制造能力，并通过与公司的密切合作，提供所需部件，以支持量子使能技术的应用，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音的激光，非常适合在广泛的科学应用中使用。第二项技术将见证新的光学材料的发展，能够高效而廉价地转换激光的波长(颜色)。该方法将使用高反射腔来增强光场，提供高转换效率，更重要的是，利用量子科学定律创造具有独特性质的光子。该项目的亮点将是制造我们的量子使能光学技术的演示器，让公司和最终用户用行动证明它们的价值。计划中有两个示范区，首先是能够看到红外线中极低光级的探测器，而不需要昂贵的冷却来防止噪音。第二个将是使用我们的激光器和腔来显示在使用中测量光纤链路的优势，提高互联网数据的可靠性和下载速度。探测器和其他设备将基于基本量子属性，其中两个光子可以融合在一起，产生能量更高的单个光子，但保留光子本身的基本量子信息。

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.