Value proposition

Making the invisible visible

QuantIC is a centre of excellence for research, development and innovation in imaging. QuantIC brings together world-leading quantum technologists at the Universities of Glasgow, Bristol, Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Imperial College, Southampton and Strathclyde, with more than 30 global industrial partners in a new and exciting partnership.

Together we will pioneer a family of multidimensional cameras operating across a range of wavelengths, timescales and length-scales.

Innovations will include:

- Single-photon visible and infrared cameras of unprecedented sensitivity.
- Compressed sensing and sub shot-noise imaging subjecting the object to the minimum illumination.
- Extreme timing-resolution single-photon cameras giving 3D ranging or time-gated imaging immune to the effects of aberrations or where line of sight is blocked.
- Single-pixel cameras, creating an alternative to expensive or unobtainable focal-plane detector arrays.
- Exploiting quantum time/number correlations, enhancing signal-to-noise in imaging and spectroscopy.
- Quantum entangled sources enabling visible images to be acquired using only infrared illumination, or infrared spectral signatures manifest in visible light.

QuantIC will create a new industrial landscape for imaging systems and their applications.

Our research ethos, governance structure and engagement strategy are designed around a stakeholder base to ensure continuing (and expanding) industrial relevance and engagement.

Imaging, Research, Innovation, Quantum, and Photonics