Company · Cambridge
Founded in Cambridge in May 2021 by researchers from Toshiba's Quantum Information Group, Wave Photonics designs photonic integrated circuits and the process design kits foundries and chip designers need to build them, with quantum one of its main markets beside datacoms and sensing. Its QPICPAC assembly kit packages quantum photonic chips. In December 2023 it led a £500,000 Innovate UK project with Oxford Ionics, the CORNERSTONE foundry at Southampton and CSA Catapult on integrated photonics for trapped-ion quantum computers, and in June 2024 raised £4.5m in seed funding. Chip-based QKD start-up Xen Quantum spun out of it in 2026.
Founded in 2021, Wave Photonics is a company in Cambridge focused on quantum photonics and hardware. It is not yet linked to a UK project in this directory. Profiled here: James Lee (Co-Founder and CEO).
Sources: Wave Photonics · Wave Photonics leads consortium in pioneering quantum computing project, Cambridge Enterprise · Wave Photonics secures £4.5 million, Cambridge Enterprise · Xen Quantum raises seed to build chip-based quantum-secure comms, Dealroom
No project in this directory lists Wave Photonics as lead, partner or funder yet.
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Xen Quantum, a new venture building chip-based Quantum Key Distribution modules, has secured seed investment from Cambridge Enterprise, Parkwalk, and.
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The uk quantum adjacent companies build the technology that makes quantum computing possible without building the quantum computers themselves, from the cryogenics that cool the chips to the lasers, photonic components, sensors and security hardware around them. Britain is unusually strong in this e
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