DR GRAEME MALCOLM OBE
CEO & FOUNDER
M SQUARED
INTRODUCING M SQUARED
WE USE LIGHT FOR GOOD
WE DEVELOP LASERS FOR THE WORLD'S SMARTEST SCIENTISTS
WE USE OUR PHOTONICS EXPERTISE TO CREATE LARGE-SCALE MARKET OPPORTUNITIES
WE’RE USING LIGHT TO CREATE DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES & HELP SOLVE GLOBAL PROBLEMS
WE WANT TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
INNOVATORS
AT HEART
APPLICATIONS
INNOVATION
PRODUCTS
3 KEY THEMES
QUANTUM
TECHNOLOGY
CHEMICAL
SENSING
BIOPHOTONICS
3 ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
SOLSTIS
FIREFLY
SPRITE
GETTING INTO QUANTUM
Pictured: Not Schroedinger’s actual cat
TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE
SET TO BE A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR SEGMENT OVER 10-15 YEARS (SOURCE:QTSAB)
LASER LIGHT IS PLAYING A FUNDAMENTAL AND CRUCIAL ROLE
WE STARTED WITH SOLSTIS
AUTOMATED TOOLKIT TO HELP SCIENTISTS EXPLORE THE QUANTUM REALM
165 MAN-YEARS IN THE MAKING
INVESTMENT OF OVER £6.5 MILLION
DRIVING FORCE BEHIND INVESTIGATIONS INTO QUANTUM (PURE LIGHT, LOW NOISE)
ULTRA NARROW LINEWIDTHS
HIGH POWER
A STEP-CHANGE
IN CW TI:SAPPHIRE
TECHNOLOGY
LOW NOISE
WIDE CONTINUOUS SCANS
ULTRA LOW NOISE
COMPACT DESIGN
FULLY AUTOMATED
A RESEARCH
PLATFORM
BEAM STEERING
FIBRE LAUNCH
ECD
BEAM STEERING
BEAM PICKOFF
REFERENCE CAVITY
SOLSTIS
PUMP PICKOFF
OUR INVOLVEMENT
FROM THE LAB TO THE REAL WORLD
CHALLENGE IS TURNING SCIENCE INTO REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS (BUILDING SYSTEMS)
WE’VE SPENT A DECADE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE & UNDERSTANDING AS WE SEE SCIENCE MATURE TO COMMERCIALISATION
Pictured: Image of optical bench for
quantum degenerate gas set-up
in the Bloch group at the MaxPlanck Institute for Quantum Optics,
Garching, Germany.
ACTIVE ROLE
EXTENDING CAPABILITIES
INDUSTRY HAS A KEY ROLE IN ENGINEERING:
OFFERING TECHNOLOGICAL SOPHISTICATION & ENHANCED PERFORMANCE
FREES UP ACADEMIA TO ANSWER ‘OPEN’ QUESTIONS
GLASGOW
PARTNERSHIPS
WITH ACADEMIA
QUANTUM IMAGING
YORK
QUANTUM COMMS
WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE UK QUANTUM HUBS
THE BUILDING BLOCK TO COMMERCIALISING NOVEL SCIENCE
BIRMINGHAM
QUANTUM SENSORS
SUPPORT FROM OTHER SOURCES: INNOVATE UK AND DSTL
OXFORD
QUANTUM INFO
UK QUANTUM HUB: BIRMINGHAM
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER PROGRAMME WITH BIRMINGHAM
PLACEMENT OF 2 SECONDEES TO TRANSFER ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE
DEVELOPMENT OF MAGNETO OPTICAL TRAP DEMONSTRATION
QUANTUM IMAGING
THE POWER OF A SINGLE PIXEL
JOINT PROGRAM FUNDED BY HUB ‘MARKET OPPORTUNITY PANEL’
LOW-COST, COMPACT IMAGING
INVESTIGATE SINGLE PIXEL IMAGING
QUANTUM IMAGING
SINGLE PIXEL CAMERAS
Extending single pixel imaging into the infrared
Exploitation of technology
Gas sensing applications in security & defence, food & drink
QUANTUM COMMUNICATION
TELEPORTATION OF INFORMATION
TRANSFER OF QUANTUM STATE FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER
USING SOLSTIS LASER AS EPR SOURCE
LOW INTENSITY NOISE ESSENTIAL
FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
QUANTUM COMMUNICATION
TELEPORTATION
Drives resonant OPO for entangled photon pair production
Qubit source (Cat state)
Signature of quantum teleportation: non-classical (negative) Wigner function
Pictured: Figures taken from “Quantum teleportation experiment places high
demands on Ti:S laser sources,” Laser Focus World Japan, September 2014,
and“Deterministic quantum teleportation of photonics quantum bits by a hybrid
technique,” Furusawa et al, Nature, 500, 2013. QUANTUM COMMUNICATION
TELEPORTATION
Pictured:
Image of
optical bench in
Furusawa lab,
University of
Tokyo
QUANTUM TIMEKEEPING
OPTICAL LATTICE CLOCKS: SPECTRAL PURITY
SOLSTIS USED BY METROLOGY LABS DEVELOPING LATTICE CLOCKS
QUANTUM TIMEKEEPING
SPECTRAL PURITY
Data taken with high power system at NIST
50nm span around carrier
Unable to measure any background Amplified
Spontaneous Emission (ASE)
Limited by noise floor of Optical Spectrum
Analyser (OSA)
ASE background < -80 dBc in 0.1 nm bandwidth
RMS intensity noise = 0.02 % (10Hz to 10 MHz)
Pictured: Test data taken at the US National Institute of) Standards and
Technology (NIST
WHERE WILL THIS TAKE US?
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