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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.
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Financial period: 1 Aug 2023 to 31 Jul 2024
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ORSAM – Optical Reference Systems via Additive Manufacturing
1 Oct 2022 to 31 Mar 2024
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...
369GaN
1 Jan 2021 to 31 Mar 2023
The 369GaN project develops a 369nm GaN laser diode for Yb+ atomic clocks.
University of the West of Scotland and Helia Photonics Limited
1 Aug 2019 to 31 Jul 2021
To embed advanced robotics and automation design knowledge in order to exploit emerging market opportunities and increase productivity.
BRICS
1 Jul 2018 to 31 Mar 2022
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...
Chemical Sensor based on a Miniaturised Infrared Spectrophotometer
1 May 2018 to 31 Jan 2021
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.
CoolBlue2
1 Apr 2018 to 30 Jun 2019
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...
Novel microwave plasma sputter deposition process providing enhanced optical coatings NMPLAS
1 Mar 2018 to 31 May 2021
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...
GaNAmP
1 Feb 2018 to 31 Mar 2019
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.
Novel microwave plasma sputter deposition process, enhanced durability coatings NMPLAS
1 Oct 2017 to 30 Sep 2019
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...
Development of a range of advanced thin film coatings for fibre-optic hydrophones.
1 Jul 2013 to 31 Jul 2014
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...