Praseodymium Laser Architecture Investigation and Demonstrator (PLAID)

量子技术计划的重点是将量子传感器和量子设备推向市场和最终用户。量子传感器在灵敏度方面提供了毫无疑问的性能优势，并且已经采取了一些措施来制造更紧凑的系统。但是对于真正的和广泛的应用，需要在这些系统的尺寸、重量和功率（“SWAP”）以及耐用性方面进行实质性的改进。超稳定是量子传感器的基石，用于计时，重力和磁场。它们也是安全通信、量子计算和量子成像的关键。除了SWAP之外，这样的系统还需要包括波长范围，这在今天并不容易获得。在这个项目中，我们的目标是开发一个激光平台，在占地面积上匹配当前商业激光器（例如来自M2和Coherent的Ti：S激光器）的光学性能，但价格与外部腔二极管激光器（ECDL）相当。我们计划证明这样一个平台可以在许多难以进入但至关重要的线路上运行。这样的发展将是QT从研究界向国防，空间和消费者市场转变的关键一步。在短期内，经济机会将来自供应链建设活动，提供新的世界领先的基础技术。瞄准的激光平台将在全球QT研究开发中实现飞跃。世界各地的研究小组经常梦想拥有交钥匙系统。从中期来看，英国将成为QT（金融、航天）早期低容量、高价值应用的首选供应商，从长期来看，我们将处于理想的位置，以利用QT向消费者市场的必然过渡。该项目所做的工作也将对航天领域产生深远的影响。简而言之，该项目将使体积，功率，尺寸和成本降低一个数量级以上，而不会失去其性能。这些组件非常关键，从而推动了英国QT的开发和商业化。

Quantum technology initiative is focused on bringing quantum sensors and quantum devices to market and end users.Quantum Sensors offer unquestioned performance advantages in sensitivity and some steps have been made at makingmore compact systems. But for genuine and widespread applications substantial improvements need to be made in size,weight and power ('SWAP') and ruggedness of these systems. An ultra stable is the bedrock for quantum quantum sensorsfor timing, gravity and magnetic field. They are also the key to secure communication, quantum computation and quantumimaging. In addition to SWAP, such systems need to encompass the wavelength ranges, which are not so easilyaccessible today. In this project, we aim to develop a laser platform matching the optical performance of currentcommercial lasers (e.g. Ti:S laser from M2 and Coherent) in a footprint but with a price point comparable to the externalcavitydiode laser (ECDL). We plan to demonstrate that such a platform can operate on many otherwise difficult-to-access but crucial lines. Such a development will be a critical step on the road to the translation of QT from the researchcommunity to the defence, space and consumer market. In the short term, economic opportunity will arise from the supplychain building activities, delivering novel world leading underpinning technologies. The aimed laser platform will leap frogus in the exploitation of global QT research. The research groups world wide often dream of having turn-key systems. Inthe medium term, the UK will become the supplier of choice for early low-volume, high-value applications of QT (finance,space) and in the long- term we will be ideally placed to exploit the inevitable transition of QT to the consumer market. Thework done in the project will also have a tangle impact on the space sector. In brief, this project will bring reduction involume, power, size and cost by over an order of magnitude and this will done without losing their performance androbustness. These components are enormously critical, thereby leap frogging the UK QT development andcommercialisation.