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Photon Force Ltd

Single-photon sensitive Cameras and Sensors Photon Force

We design & manufacture single-photon sensitive cameras and sensors - Fastest time-resolved single-photon counting technology on the market!

CRN
SC501215
Founded
2015
Age
11

Overview

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Legal name
PHOTON FORCE LTD
Region
Scotland
Registered address
MURCHISON HOUSE
10 MAX BORN CRESCENT
EDINBURGH
SCOTLAND
EH9 3BF
Insolvency history
No

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

7 events
31 Mar
2027

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Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Nov
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

25 Mar
2026

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17 Mar
2026

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Last confirmation statement made up date

28 Feb
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

01 Oct
2024

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23 Mar
2015

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Spinout profile

2 entries

Company description

Photon Force develops photon-counting image sensing technology that can predict shapes that are hidden behind a scattering medium.

Project impact

http://www.research-innovation.ed.ac.uk/News/Latest-News/news/latest-news/university-start-up-crowned-converge-challenge-2015-winner-5

Photon Force
2015
Photon Force
2015

Public funding

7 awards
First funded
2017
Funded years
2017, 2018, 2020, 2022
Age at first award
2 years

Projects

2022 Collaborative R&D

Underwater Single Photon Imaging System

1 Jul 2022 to 31 Mar 2025

Awarded
£882,415
Total cost £1,260,593

High resolution 3D maps are required for an increasing number of key subsea applications from installation and operation of offshore wind energy, asset decommissioning, environmental monitoring, and defence. Quantum photonic detection technologies can offer a step change in the resolution, accuracy, coverage, and speed of generation of these maps compared...

2022 Collaborative R&D

HYDRI - HYDrogen sensoR for Industry

1 Mar 2022 to 28 Feb 2025

Awarded
£882,415
Total cost £1,260,593

bp is aiming to be a very different company by 2030, and our ambition is to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner and to help the world get to net zero. A key component of becoming an integrated energy company surrounds low carbon electricity and energy, and within that, creating a distinct position in hydrogen, including aiming for a 10% market share i...

2022 Collaborative R&D

Towards a Quantum enabled Cloud

1 Mar 2022 to 31 Aug 2024

Awarded
£151,998
Total cost £217,140

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...

2020 CR&D Bilateral Lead participant

Quantum Electro-Optic Detector Technology (QuEOD)

1 Sep 2020 to 31 Aug 2023

Awarded
£898,234
Total cost £1,283,191

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...

2020 CR&D Bilateral

QT Assemble: Integrated Quantum Technology Programme

1 Sep 2020 to 31 Aug 2023

Awarded
£816,797
Total cost £1,166,852

QT Assemble brings together a consortium of UK companies to develop highly-innovative assembly and integration processes for new markets in quantum technologies. Waveguide writing, nanoscale alignment and monolithic integration will be used to deliver new levels of performance in robust and reliable platforms. High-performance components and systems will ...

2018 Collaborative R&D

rAmpart

1 Apr 2018 to 31 Mar 2019

Awarded
£43,837
Total cost £62,626

This project will develop tapered-amplifiers and single-photon detection techniques in order to develop a Time-of-Flight underwater 3D imaging system. These systems use new single-photon counting detectors and timing techniques to enable imaging with low-light return levels and offer sub-centimeter depth resolution. The developed systems will offer order-...

2017 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Low noise, high-throughput, time-resolved single-photon sensor for quantum applications

1 Oct 2017 to 31 Mar 2019

Awarded
£250,226
Total cost £357,465

Quantum technology will revolutionize science, computing, communication, medical diagnosis and treatment, security, defence, and consumer goods. Fundamentally, the development and proliferation of quantum technologies into everyday life depend on the availability of sensors capable of time-resolved recording of individual energy quanta. Photon Force has p...

Product types

Collaborative R&D CR&D Bilateral