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M Aking the Invisible Visible QUANTIC The UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Enhanced Imaging QuantIC Innovation Space James Watt South Building University of Glasgow QuantIC Glasgow, G12 8QQ [email protected] quantic.ac.uk Annual Report Follow us: @QuantIC_QTHub 2017 MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE QuantIC Annual Report 2017 MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE Foreword elcome to QuantIC’s third annual report. We are more than halfway through the first five years of the UK National WQuantum Technologies Programme (UKNQTP) which has successfully drawn industry’s attention to the business opportunities created by translating quantum science out of the research lab. To date, QuantIC has supported 33 industry-led projects, investing £2.8M and leveraging £2.3M of industrial support. These projects all utilise quantum technologies to develop competitive advantage in terms of functionality, performance or cost. While the development of a quantum technology industry in the UK is still in its infancy, the unique structure of the UKNQTP, which brings together academia, industry and government, has given the UK a head- start in the international race to industrialise quantum technologies. However, much work will be necessary to retain the momentum created and to secure a large share of the emerging global market. QuantIC is in a good position to meet this challenge head on. Over the next two years, we expect a number of QuantIC products will be taken to market, both in collaboration with industry partners and as new spin-out companies. Quantum technologies have been selected by the UK Government as one of fourteen ‘core industrial challenges’ to be tackled through its Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). As planning begins for the next phase of the UKNQTP, there is an opportunity to build on the integration of industry and academic assets initiated by the Quantum Technology Hubs. QuantIC’s continued collaboration with industry and potential Innovation Centres to produce a supply chain could also underpin other ISCF challenges, such as such as self-driving vehicles, satellites and space technology and leading edge healthcare. At QuantIC, we’re excited to see what lies in store for the future of quantum technologies in the UK as part of an evolving landscape of research opportunities. We look forward to continuing collaboration, maintaining confidence and momentum and widening and deepening existing industrial networks to ensure we capitalise on the investment made so far in delivering value to the UK economy. Professor Steve Beaumont Professor Miles Padgett Director Principle Investigator Fresnel Cones demonstrator exhibited at the 2017 National Quantum Technologies Showcase. Photo Credit Dan Tsantilis & EPSRC 4 5 Table of Contents National Quantum Technologies Programme Foreword P. 2 QuantIC is one of four UK Quantum Technology Hubs established as part of the £270M government investment in the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme (UK- NQTP). The aim of the UK-NQTP is to accelerate the translation of quantum science into economic and societal impact for the benefit of the UK. The vision of the UK-NQTP is the creation of a coherent quantum technology community Who we are P. 5 where government, academia and industry collaborate to secure a leadership position for the UK in the emerging multi-million pound quantum technology market. QuantIC Year 3 P. 7 QuantIC QuantIC is the UK centre of excellence for research, development and innovation in Innovation quantum enhanced imaging. Led by the University of Glasgow, it brings together more P. 10 than 120 full time researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Oxford, Strathclyde and Warwick with more than 40 industry partners. The Hub is led by Professor Steve Beaumont, QuantIC’s Director, and Professor Miles Padgett, QuantIC’s Principal Investigator and Scientific Lead. The day to day operation Technology Development of the Hub is supported by a growing and dedicated central team to ensure its smooth P. 24 operation and to appropriately resource our outreach and industrial engagement activities. Stakeholder Engagement P. 38 Our Vision Governance Our vision, shaped in collaboration with over 40 industry partners, is to pioneer a family P. 52 of multidimensional cameras operating across a range of wavelengths, time-scales and length-scales, creating a new industrial landscape for imaging systems and their applications in the UK. QuantIC’s approach to user engagement and innovation includes a strategy aimed at exploring with industry the potential for quantum technologies to improve products and processes in the imaging sector. Appendices P. 56 6 7 Quantic Year 3 Over the past year, QuantIC has built on existing partnerships in the UK and grown its international presence at major exhibitions. ince our inception in December 2014, we have focused on our mission to deliver improved imaging technology to users by translating cutting edge research into Sprototype components, cameras and systems. In our third year we continued to push towards this goal through industry collaboration, research excellence and stakeholder engagement. Our Partnership Resource programme has continued to grow with an additional £2.4m investment into projects in year three, including 7 Phase 2 demonstrator projects. QuantIC also continued to support skills development through the QuantIC Industrial Studentship programme introduced last year. We have now awarded £490k across 12 industry-led projects. Our Innovation Space is helping to accelerate industrial innovation by ofering space for companies to co-locate with QuantIC researchers. In Year 3, the Innovation Space hosted industry partners such as Dstl, Chromacity, and Bridgeporth and to support the development of a new start-up, Pyxl. The quality of our research has been internationally recognised; our academics have delivered 122 talks at international conferences and published 72 papers in high-level journals in our third year. Year three also saw us host collaborative workshops with the UK Technology Hub for Sensing and Metrology to find ways to improve and develop our technologies through greater collaboration. Improvement of our demonstrators has allowed us to take our technology on the road to two high-profile international exhibition events, Photonics West in the United States and Laser World of Photonics in Munich. QuantIC also contributed twelve exhibits to the third National Quantum Technologies Showcase, including improved and brand-new demonstrators such as the Single-photon Underwater Imager and 3D Fusion demonstrators. In 2017, QuantIC expanded its stakeholder engagement through membership of Technology Scotland, which provides us with connections to many emerging technology industries. QuantIC continued to host industry-focused workshops leading to increased interest in the automotive and health industries, further expanding our range of industry applications. Year 3 also saw the growth of the QuantIC Central Team, with the recruitment of a Business Development Executive and a Project Ofcer. The increased capacity has allowed us to take on every opportunity to grow our impact. QuantIC continues to maintain a high standard of research and industry engagement and in the coming years we will continue building our vision to create a new industrial landscape for imaging systems and their applications. Horiba Microscope demonstrator built using QuantIC components at the 2017 8 National Quantum Technologies Showcase. Photo Credit Dan Tsantilis & EPSRC 9 3 Years In Numbers QuantIC has come a long way since its inception three years ago. Here is an overview of what we’ve achieved so far: Technology exhibited Recognition Of at major events Our World-Leading 6 Industry Research Team Industry-led Institute of Physics; Royal Society; visits Royal Society of Edinburgh; projects Leverhulme Trust; Optical Society of America 12Innovate UK and Centre for Defence and Engaged Enterprise projects for a total value of £1.9M. Patent New/ >50 9 protected >100 Improved technologies companies 4 Technologies NEW research awards £2.8M Companies >£17M Funding Leveraged papers £3.3M accessing >100 Funding Invested 6 published Innovation >200Talks at Space Partnership32 meetings and Studentships12 Resource Projects conferences 10 11 Innovation Industry Partners QuantIC is bringing quantum technology to bear on real world QuantIC is grateful to the companies who have engaged with us imaging challenges, across the industrial, scientific, security and through our Partnership Reseource Fund projects and Industrial consumer markets. Studentship Programme. ndustrial engagement drives our research. We are collaborating with industry leaders and technology users to accelerate imaging innovation in alignment with market Ipriorities and national/international needs. This will ultimately lead to commercial applications that will benefit the UK economy. A major aspect of our industry engagement is the £4m Partnership Resource Fund (PRF) which has been targeted at projects that demonstrate the applicability of QuantIC technologies to solve real-world imaging problems and to accelerate technology readiness in partnership with an industry collaborator. The fund is managed by our industry-led board, the Market Opportunities Panel, ensuring market- awareness and industrial oversight in the allocation of the fund. PRF projects are aimed at determining whether a technology has the potential to ofer a competitive edge in terms of new functionality, improved performance or cost reduction (Phase 1) or to progress
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