Praseodymium Laser Architecture Investigation and Demonstrator (PLAID)

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，由于计算机技术的巨大复杂性、电力需求和成本，计算机技术还是研究实验室的产物。只有在计算机所依赖的子系统的大小、成本和性能得到改善的情况下，更广泛的非专业社会才有可能采用这种技术。量子技术发现自己处于类似的结合点。这些系统现在已经成为现实，并拥有改变我们生活的巨大潜力，但它们只有在研究实验室才能找到，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，极大地降低这些关键部件的尺寸和成本，以使英国成为Qt开发和商业化的先锋。

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.