Company · Dalgety Bay
PowerPhotonic makes freeform micro-optics: beam shapers, microlens arrays and beam combiners machined directly into fused silica, sold mainly for industrial, defence and medical lasers. The company is based in Dalgety Bay, Fife, and its quantum work came through QT Assemble, a Quantum Technologies Challenge consortium led by Fraunhofer CAP in Glasgow that set out to shrink lasers, photon sources, detectors and cold-atom sources into robust integrated devices. Its own site does not currently present quantum as a market.
PowerPhotonic is a Dalgety Bay company. It appears as a partner in QT Assemble.
Sources: PowerPhotonic: About us · Fraunhofer CAP: QT Assemble · The Quantum Insider: Fraunhofer in Scotland leads £10 million drive (September 2020) · Photonics.com Buyers' Guide: PowerPhotonic Ltd
QT Assemble
A three-year Fraunhofer CAP-led consortium to make quantum technology components smaller, more robust and easier to build.
Role: Partner
Themes: Materials and components, Sensing
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