Wave Photonics

Great to see this article in Startups Magazine about the initiative our UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme team just delivered for five British companies in the #quantumcomputing field. The UK delegation went to Quantum Korea 2024, where we arranged 35 meetings with #SouthKorean corporations to kick start commercial discussions. The UK companies were Wave Photonics (James Lee), Quantum Software Lab (Craig Skeldon), Cavero Quantum (James Trenholme), Element Six (Matthew Markham) and Oxford Instruments plc (Gayeon Jung), whose innovations attracted huge interest from the Korean corporations. If you'd like to be considered for initiatives such as this to help your business expand in Asia Pacific, you can find out more about the UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme and apply to join here: https://lnkd.in/ec6XcAwK https://lnkd.in/gaSwygEM

Alan Sanders joins the Wave Photonics team! https://lnkd.in/gbmFEJy4 #startup #photonics #deeptech #siliconphotonics

Bence Parti, Photonics Engineer at Wave Photonics, had the pleasure of recently attending the 9th ePIXfab - the European Silicon Photonics Alliance Silicon Photonics Summer School held at the University of Southampton and hosted by CORNERSTONE, which brought together top academics as well as industrial partners to explore the cutting-edge of what silicon photonics has to offer today, as well as in the near future. Event highlights include: * A presentation by Professor Wim Bogaerts on developing a PIC from idea to working product, which broke down the design process into several stages and explored different simulation tools available to designers *Talks from startup founders which provided varying perspectives on business and technology development *A talk by Professor Roel Baets which explored the future trends in silicon photonics At Wave Photonics, Bence works on component design and can apply these learnings to advance his work at the company.

If you're working with (quantum) photonic integrated circuits and need a turnkey solution for initial low-volume production, the QPICPAC packaging service might be what you're looking for.   Developed through an Innovate UK project in collaboration with Wave Photonics , ALTER TECHNOLOGY TÜV NORD, CORNERSTONE, and the University of Bristol, the QPICPAC service offers designers an accessible turnkey packaging solution. This service also includes the option to specify Senko Advanced Components's CudoForm technology. Special thanks to Grahame Wood, Callum Littlejohns, Martin Cryan, Jon Pugh, James Lee, Jiangbo Zhu and our own Michael O'Farrell for their contributions.   Learn more about Senko's CudoForm technology here: https://lnkd.in/gTC8-jTD   Access the service directly from Wave Photonics' site here:https://lnkd.in/eXAPW6_U SENKO We Value Every Connection #PIC #QPIC #CudoForm #CopackagedOptics #Collaboration #MPC

I always get excited when quantum technology products get to market (spent time in a former job talking to people about ultra-cold atoms!) What’s interesting is that the team are built upon expertise from so many UK universities. I saw Cambridge, Bristol, Oxford, Exeter, Imperial, Cardiff … on the website. And also international expertise with team members having worked and studied in several countries. Wave Photonics is an illustration of how the UK can be open, collaborative, attract global investors and scientists, and manufacture groundbreaking products. So, I’ll end with a shout out to my current and hopefully future MP! Darren Jones Department for Science, Innovation and Technology HM Treasury UK Research and Innovation Michele Barbour Ian Bond Martin Cryan

🚀 Big News from Wave Photonics (Batch 14, Cohort)! 💰 It raised an additional $5.8M, bringing its total funding to $6.9M. 🔬 It plans to take its chip design to a commercial foundry, to focus on solutions for quantum technologies and biosensing. 📚 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gWPNChJb #startup #innovation #deeptech #startupfunding James Lee Matthew A. Mateusz Kubica

An exciting double announcement to launch our first two product offerings : https://lnkd.in/eR7rVFgz Firstly, the QPICPAC packaging service that was developed via an Innovate UK project with partners ALTER TECHNOLOGY TUV NORD UK LTD, Senko Advanced Components, CORNERSTONE and University of Bristol to enable designers to access a turnkey packaging solution. A special thanks to Grahame Wood, Michael O'Farrell, Callum Littlejohns, Martin Cryan and Jon Pugh. You can access the service here https://lnkd.in/eXAPW6_U. Read the press release here https://lnkd.in/ejwHDbFc. Secondly, the Wave Photonics 1550nm PDK for the CORNERSTONE 220nm silicon photonics process, offering an increased range of lower loss and fabrication tolerant components to help designers focus on circuits design and functionality. This was developed as part of the Quantum Photonics PDK Innovate UK project, so thank you to our project partners, Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd (Anthony Bennett and Sherif Ibrahim), Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult (Mark Goossens and Marcello Graziosi) and KETS Quantum Security (Jake Kennard) for all your work on the project! You can access the PDK and training materials on PIC layout here: https://lnkd.in/eVdFYYCS

Cambridge-based Wave Photonics has secured nearly €5.32M in seed round to develop on-chip photonics designs for quantum technologies, sensors, and data centre applications. 🌐🔬 Wave Photonics has developed and validated its core computational photonics design technology to shorten photonic product development time. Read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/g_Nife_j James Lee, Matthew A., Mateusz Kubica, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, Kyra Ventures, Innovate UK #Photonics #QuantumTech #Funding

More exciting news as Wave Photonics, a Cambridge-based deep tech start-up, has received £4.5m funding to further continue its development of on-chip photonics designs! “Cambridge Enterprise Ventures is pleased to follow our initial pre-seed investment and co-lead Wave Photonics’ seed round with UKI2S. Integrated photonics is poised to disrupt high-value industries ranging from quantum computing to bio-sensing, and Wave Photonics’ team and technologies are in a great position to enable and accelerate the adoption of next generation integrated photonics products” says Christine Martin, Head of Ventures at Cambridge Enterprise. The round was led by the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund and Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, with participation from the Redstone and QAI Ventures’ Quantum Fund, Kyra Ventures, and Deeptech Labs. This investment will enable Wave Photonics to take its technology from a research manufacturing line to a commercial foundry. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/ekmkC7ii #Semiconductor #Photonics #QuantumComputing #DeepTech #Cambridge #Innovation