PHOTONICS WEST REPORT REVIEW
capable of measuring brain magnetic fields. ‘We are collaborating with academic partners and other industry partners like Zeiss, which is also interested in this to use in brain surgery. We are focusing on miniaturisation of this technology,’ explained Robert Rölver, from Bosch’s scouting quantum and nanotechnologies division. Supply chains are forming for quantum science. Robertson noted the UK has a good supply chain and a fairly vibrant startup market. Unnebrink, from VDI, said that a quantum technologies company starting from scratch is not very viable, but he said that there are plenty of opportunities in the
“We’re already thinking of IP that will apply to the quantum industry in the future”
value chain. ‘There is plenty of room for some companies addressing the hardware for quantum,’ he said. ‘We are seeing a lot of this in Germany, and the UK is the same.’ Robertson made the point that, while Gooch & Housego doesn’t need to know how quantum technologies work to make money from them, the company does need skilled people with a background in quantum science.
The last two people Robertson recruited
were from the University of Birmingham, he noted, which Gooch & Housego is working with on quantum projects. ‘Because we’re early enough in the game, you start to see where your engineering technology can benefit the applications. We’re already thinking of IP that will apply to the quantum industry in the future.’ EO
Prism award and StartUp Challenge reward photonics innovations
A lidar sensor for self-driving vehicles, a sensor detecting nano-vibrations of the body with applications in care homes and smart cars, and a high-luminance white light source were among the winners of the 2018 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, announced at Photonics West.
The winning companies
and products are: l NKT Photonics for a long-range optical fibre temperature and strain sensor designed to monitor underground transmission and distribution power cables, and overhead transmission lines; l Block Engineering’s LaserWarn analyser, which uses quantum cascade lasers combined with mid-infrared spectroscopy to detect and identify chemical clouds; l SoraaLaser for a white light, high-luminance, remotely delivered laser light module; l Luminar’s lidar sensor architecture, which delivers more than one million data points per second; l Class 5 Photonics for its Supernova optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier; Quantumcyte for its Q1 ArraySeQ, enabling phenotypic profiling of
single cells over thousands of cells simultaneously, and correlating that information to the genetic data collected from each cell; l Limo’s optical beam delivery and beam shaping system for UV laser lift-off of OLED displays; l ContinUse Biometrics for a sensor capable of monitoring several bio-parameters from a distance, by detecting nano- vibrations of the body; l AdlOptica Optical Systems for multi-focus optics; and Spheryx for its xSight test system, which gives quantitative measurement of both size and composition of particles in complex fluid samples. Also at Photonics West, US
company PhotoniCare won SPIE’s Startup Challenge, the society’s competition
for young companies and entrepreneurs. PhotoniCare has developed a handheld OCT imager for physicians diagnosing middle ear infections. The ClearView device produces 3D cross- sectional images of the middle ear, alongside video of the surface of the eardrum. Peer-reviewed studies
show that the same handheld OCT technology can be used to image other areas such as the anterior and posterior segments of the eye, the skin and the oral cavity. The firm was founded out of Dr Stephen Boppart’s bioengineering research lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). PhotoniCare continues its relationship with UIUC as an EnterpriseWorks incubator company.
PhotoniCare won SPIE’s Startup Challenge
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