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Helia Photonics Limited

Helia Photonics Ltd The ultimate innovators in thin film optical coatings

Helia Photonics Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 2002 based in Scotland.

CRN
SC232228
Founded
2002
Age
24

Overview

Legal name
HELIA PHOTONICS LIMITED
Region
Scotland
Registered address
UNIT 2
ROSEBANK PARK
LIVINGSTON
SCOTLAND
EH54 7EJ
Insolvency history
No

Latest accounts

Financial period: 1 Aug 2023 to 31 Jul 2024

ABRIDGEDACCOUNTS
Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
Unknown
Employees
23

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

5 events
30 Apr
2027

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

13 Jun
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

31 Jul
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

30 May
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

30 May
2002

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

10 awards
First funded
2013
Funded years
2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Age at first award
11 years

Projects

2022 Collaborative R&D

ORSAM – Optical Reference Systems via Additive Manufacturing

1 Oct 2022 to 31 Mar 2024

Awarded
£76,383
Total cost £109,119

ORSAM seeks to address the critical national infrastructure challenge of delivering cost effective, resilient, distributed timing within the telecommunications core and mobile access networks that we all depend on to deliver the emergency service network, data centre access and interconnect, Industrial IoT, financial transactions and nearly all other form...

2021 CR&D Bilateral

369GaN

1 Jan 2021 to 31 Mar 2023

Awarded
£102,935
Total cost £147,050

The 369GaN project develops a 369nm GaN laser diode for Yb+ atomic clocks.

2019 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of the West of Scotland and Helia Photonics Limited

1 Aug 2019 to 31 Jul 2021

Awarded
Unknown

To embed advanced robotics and automation design knowledge in order to exploit emerging market opportunities and increase productivity.

2018 EU-Funded Lead participant

BRICS

1 Jul 2018 to 31 Mar 2022

Awarded
£124,411
Total cost £207,351

The aim of this project is to develop the prototype of a tunable light source specifically adapted for ethanol, aldehydes and C1 to C9 hydrocarbon spectroscopy. Thanks to its small dimensions, low power consumption and simple control interface, the instrument will be suitable for integration in optical gas analyzers. The instrument will be based on disrup...

2018 EU-Funded Lead participant

Chemical Sensor based on a Miniaturised Infrared Spectrophotometer

1 May 2018 to 31 Jan 2021

Awarded
£178,354
Total cost £178,354

This project is based on a highly innovative, mass-producible, photonic miniaturised IR spectrophotometer, enabling low power, low cost,fit & forget deployment, multi-gas sensing. Currently no commercial sensor offers these in one product.

2018 Collaborative R&D

CoolBlue2

1 Apr 2018 to 30 Jun 2019

Awarded
£77,040
Total cost £110,057

CoolBlue2 is a highly innovative project with a goal to develop next generation laser technology for use in the emerging field of quantum sensing. CoolBlue2's disruptive technology has the potential to transform conventional quantum sensing systems making them cheaper and more compact. We will make use of compound semiconductors, advanced materials that c...

2018 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Novel microwave plasma sputter deposition process providing enhanced optical coatings NMPLAS

1 Mar 2018 to 31 May 2021

Awarded
£153,931
Total cost £219,899

The NMPAS project is focused on an innovation in the Materials & Advanced Manufacturing high growth sector, applying a cutting edge & innovative coating process - Microwave Plasma Assisted Sputtering (MPAS). This offers a room temperature process with up to 6-fold increase in optical coating production throughput compared to current predominantly used hig...

2018 Collaborative R&D

GaNAmP

1 Feb 2018 to 31 Mar 2019

Awarded
£200,621
Total cost £286,602

An integrated GaN laser diode and optical amplifier is developed in GaNAmP to provide a laser source for cold-atom interferometry for optical atomic clocks and quantum sensing applications.

2017 Collaborative R&D

Novel microwave plasma sputter deposition process, enhanced durability coatings NMPLAS

1 Oct 2017 to 30 Sep 2019

Awarded
£122,987
Total cost £175,696

The NMPLAS project is focused on an innovation in the Materials and Manufacturing high growth sector and will apply a cutting edge and innovative, high throughput coating process - Microwave Plasma Assisted Sputtering (MPAS), to produce infrared (IR) transparent and hard, wear/erosion resistant coatings, which are themselves an innovation in materials dev...

2013 Collaborative R&D

Development of a range of advanced thin film coatings for fibre-optic hydrophones.

1 Jul 2013 to 31 Jul 2014

Awarded
£45,001
Total cost £75,214

This project is collaboration between Precision Acoustics, a specialist hydrophone manufacturer, and Helia Photonics, a leading optical coatings specialist. The aim is to produce novel thin film coatings on single mode optical fibres in order to develop a range of new ultrasound sensors for use in medical and NDT markets. The new coatings and sensors will...

Product types

Collaborative R&D CR&D Bilateral EU-Funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership