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，寻求在量子增强成像领域建立一个中心。我们的中心将把世界领先的量子技术专家与全球行业领导者联系起来，根据行业优先事项以及国内/国际经济和社会需求来转变成像。我们将共同开发一系列量子增强型多维相机，在一系列波长、时间尺度和长度尺度上运行，从而开创具有突破性功能的成像和传感系统。创新将包括：-以最小的或仅有的红外照明进行成像；-即使在视线被遮挡的情况下也进行成像；-以任何传统相机技术无法实现的波长成像；以前所未有的灵敏度成像重力场；以及-使用量子光成像微观世界。应用于成像的量子技术将创造出提供目前所不具备的功能的相机，改变国防、安全、运输、能源、航空航天和医疗/生命科学的多种应用。我们是唯一提出的满足成像需求的中心，我们有30多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M-Squared激光这样的中小企业，以及泰利斯、e2v和Selex等跨国公司，以及中国创新中心、Fraunhofer UK、英国天文技术中心等财团，以及DSTL和NPL等政府机构。我们将通过我们的商业主导的机会小组管理的400万GB合作伙伴基金来支持这一行业参与和开发渠道，该基金将支持与行业联合资助的项目。苏格兰资助委员会额外的GB 3M投资将在Hub内创造创新空间，公司可以在那里与学术团队共同定位，改进演示系统，将他们的TRL提升到完全竞争前的原型。我们将与英国科学中心网络合作，创建一个面向感兴趣的成年人的量子技术展览，吸引更多的家庭观众和学校团体。展览将创造对话空间，就量子技术对我们的生活、工作和交流方式的影响进行对话，让公众有机会向研究团队反馈他们的观点。这项建议的主要优点是将一个基础广泛、经验丰富的大学联盟与已建立的行业关系结合在一起，并结合我们的行业合作伙伴面临的挑战形成的课程概念的相关性。

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.