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Vector Photonics Limited

UK company SC657341, incorporated on 13 March 2020.

Vector Photonics A revolution in laser technology

Vector Photonics Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 2020.

Company number
SC657341
Incorporated
13 Mar 2020
Companies House status
Active

Company identity

Founded / incorporated
13 March 2020

Company number SC657341

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Legal name
VECTOR PHOTONICS LIMITED
Company type
LTD
Region
Unknown
Registered address
Unknown
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Latest accounts

Financial period: 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2024

FULLACCOUNTS
Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
Unknown
Employees
13

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

1 event
13 Mar
2020

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

13 awards
First funded
2020
Funded years
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Age at first award
0 years

Projects

2026 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Advanced Manufacturing PCSEL Packaging Supplychain (AMPPS)

1 Jul 2026 to 31 Mar 2027

Awarded
£64,545
Total cost £92,207

Accelerated Manufacturing for PCSEL Packaging Solutions (AMPPS) project will deliver a feasibility study to address a critical and growing challenge in advanced photonics manufacturing: the lack of scalable, thermally efficient and resource‑effective packaging for photonic crystal surface‑emitting lasers (PCSELs). As global demand for high‑bandwidth optic...

2025 Small Business Research Initiative Lead participant

High Optical Power PCSEL Laser for Intersatellite Data Transmit Enhancement (HOPLITE)

1 Aug 2025 to 31 Mar 2026

Awarded
£1,308,504
Total cost £1,308,504

Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC) is an emerging technology that uses light to wirelessly transmit data through the air, offering ultra-high-speed, secure, and interference-free communication. FSOC has the potential to transform global connectivity---enabling high-bandwidth links between buildings, across campuses, and even between satellites and g...

2025 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

QUDITS - 2

1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026

Awarded
£269,906
Total cost £385,580

Project QUDITS2 is an industrial research project developing a hardware demonstrator platform to showcase the viabilty of developing quantum communication systems using qudits, based on orbital angular momentum (OAM). Following on from the successful Innovate UK funded QUDITS feasibilty study, the consortiu will develop a demonstrator using commercially a...

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Gallium nitRide based Advanced PHotonIc Crystal Structures (GRAPHICS)

1 Jun 2024 to 31 May 2025

Awarded
£421,270
Total cost £601,814

The blue semiconductor LED was invented by Japanese inventor Shuji Nakamura in 1992 four years later, the first low-power blue laser was first realised eventually receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics along with Professor Isamu Akasaki, and Hiroshi Amano in 2014\. Since then blue lasers have found significant market traction in many applications, includin...

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

FRONTIERS (FRee space optical cOmmuNicaTIons Enhanced thRough pcSels)

1 Mar 2024 to 31 Mar 2025

Awarded
£692,206
Total cost £692,206

LiFi is an optical communications system that uses light waves as the means of communication. Which has the potential to be 100x faster than wifi and entirely secure as the light used can't penetrate the walls of the building. It is a novel and exciting technology which is set to revolutionise communications. However, to achieve this new laser performance...

2023 Investment Accelerator Lead participant

Zeus

1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2024

Awarded
£696,100
Total cost £994,428

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to revolutionise modern life, by enabling autonomous vehicles, real time medical diagnosis, financial modelling, power grid management, etc. However, the growth in the compute power necessary to develop future AI systems will run up against a data transmission bottle neck in compute power. This bottleneck is caused by d...

2022 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

ADRENALIN (lAser Diodes in the veRy nEar iNfrared for quantum AppLIcatioNs )

1 Nov 2022 to 30 Apr 2024

Awarded
£211,305
Total cost £301,864

Quantum computing is a rapidly emerging technology offering transformative changes to society as a whole by providing vast improvements in computational capability that will solve complex many-body problems that are currently intractable. It will potentially deliver advancements in diverse fields such as finance, climate change, infrastructure planning, d...

2022 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

QUantum communication Development with Increased Throughput for information Systems (QUDITS)

1 Oct 2022 to 31 Mar 2024

Awarded
£120,148
Total cost £171,640

Project QUDITS is a feasibility study which aims to develop a demonstrator platform to showcase the feasibility of developing quantum communication systems using qudits based on orbital angular momentum (OAM). By using using commercially available novel photonics technologies from the UK supply chain, photonic crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs) and ...

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Laser lIFeTest (LIFT)

1 Dec 2021 to 31 Jan 2022

Awarded
£99,258
Total cost £99,258

Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, is an enabling technology and is the future of manufacturing in a digital, local, low turnaround time, personalised world. Industry 4.0 aims to update manufacturing practice bringing it into the digital world through creativity, intelligence and connectivity. Direct digital manufacturing by allowing user access...

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

phoTonIc crysTal lAsers for etherNet applications (TITAN)

1 Jun 2021 to 30 Nov 2022

Awarded
£300,000
Total cost £600,000
2021 Study Lead participant

surFACe emItting Laser array for addITive mAnufacTuring Of theRmoplastics (FACILITATOR)

1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2022

Awarded
£213,466
Total cost £213,466

Additive manufacturing (AM) is an enabling technology and is the future of manufacturing in a digital, local, low turnaround time, personalised world. This new field has the potential to revolutionise many aspects of human life. The materials which can be manufactured using this process can significantly reduce waste during the manufacturing process, as w...

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Bright Laser diOdes fOr aDvance metaL addItive maNufacturing systEms (BLOODLINE)

1 Mar 2021 to 28 Feb 2023

Awarded
£489,203
Total cost £698,862

Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, is an enabling technology and is the future of manufacturing in a digital, local, low turnaround time, personalised world. Industry 4.0 aims to update manufacturing practice bringing it into the digital world through creativity, intelligence and connectivity. Direct digital manufacturing by allowing user access...

Product types

Collaborative R&D Investment Accelerator Small Business Research Initiative Study