Arqit Limited

The UK is at the forefront of 5G innovation, and 5G will bring massive economic benefits to the global economy. In particular the ability to deploy dedicated Private 5G for industrial and smart city use cases will yield economic and societal benefits. However with new technology comes new security vulnerabilities, and the 5G networks will be an attractive...

HEART (Hydrogen- Electric and Automated Regional Transportation) is a programme that will demonstrate a viable regional transport network that is zero carbon, affordable, scalable and safe. It is aimed at sub-regional aviation (typically using 9-19 passenger aircraft, with circa 100 licensed airfields around the UK) with an objective to enable a commercia...

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) facilitates the secure sharing of encryption keys using quantum technology. These keys can encrypt data for transmission over conventional fibre links across any distance, but QKD itself is limited over fibre to around 150km with current technology. Beyond this, 'trusted nodes' are required, but at major risk of creating sec...

The goal of this project is to develop a source of time/frequency-entangled photon pairs suitable for multipurpose quantum communications in daylight conditions the context of next generation wireless communications. The large background noise due to solar radiation limits satellite-to-ground and, in general, free-space entanglement distribution to night ...

The goal of this project is to explore the feasibility of a satellite-based quantum secure time transfer service. Existing time dissemination services are vulnerable to spoofing or jamming, are unable to serve hard-to-reach locations and provide limited timing accuracy. By utilising quantum secure transfer, a new service can be implemented which is unbrea...

The QuEOD project brings together academic and industrial partners to break through the technology barriers for novel types of time-resolved SWIR detectors and pave the way forwards for UK sovereign supply and leadership. It will to develop a unique supply chain and engage in commercial exploitation for both CMT and GaSb detector technologies for next gen...

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) facilitates the secure sharing of encryption keys using quantum technology. These keys can encrypt data for transmission over conventional fibre links across any distance, but QKD itself is limited over fibre to around 150km. Beyond this, 'trusted nodes' are required, but at major risk of creating security vulnerabilities. A...

AirQKD establishes a UK ecosystem, from single-photon components to networked quantum systems, to protect short to mid-range communication in free space. In particular we carry out pilot demonstrations of the enabling infrastructure for quantum-secure 5G and autonomous and connected vehicles.

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a well understood application of quantum technology and there are several metropolitan fibre networks already established for QKD services. However, key distribution is limited by absorption inside optical fibres which mean that transmissions over distances greater than about 150 km are impractical. Free space communicati...