RedWave Labs
Company · Didcot
Didcot electronics designer building single-photon detectors and UK-made QKD receivers, lead of the MARCONI and SEQOND projects.
Completed Consortium
MARCONI: Modular UK QKD receivers for Quantum Internet
A RedWave Labs-led consortium building two UK-made receiver modules for entanglement-based quantum key distribution.
Project data last updated 11 October 2026
About this project
MARCONI ran from July 2024 to March 2026. One receiver uses four-channel single-photon avalanche detectors from Phlux, packaged by Bay Photonics, for short links.
The second uses a 64-channel superconducting nanowire detector system from the University of Glasgow, cooled by a 1 K system from Chase Cryogenics, for long-distance links.
Lead organisation
Partners (6)
Bay Photonics
Company · Paignton
Chase Research Cryogenics
Company · Sheffield
Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics
Research organisation · Glasgow
Phlux Technology
Start-up · Sheffield
University of Cambridge
University · Cambridge
University of Glasgow
University · Glasgow
Funders
Innovate UK
Funder · Swindon
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Sources
- Gateway to Research: MARCONI: Modular UK QKD receivers for Quantum Internet (gtr.ukri.org)
- Quantum Zeitgeist: UK Develops Secure Quantum Key Distribution Modules (quantumzeitgeist.com)
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