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The UK is continuing its drive to commercialise Quantum Technology in Imaging, Sensing, Communications and Computing. In the first part of my talk I will give an overview of the work of QuantIC, the UK hub tasked with bringing quantum technology to bear on real world imaging challenges, across the industrial, scientific, security and consumer markets.
In the second part of my talk I will feature some of my own group’s work on using quantum illumination to both increase image resolution and suppress background and detector noise. Pairs of photons that are quantum entangled with each other are correlated in many degrees of freedom, creation-time, energy, lateral position etc. Fundamentally this means that measuring one of the photons gives near-perfect prediction of the corresponding property of the other photon. In an imaging context, this second photon with known properties can then be used to probe an object. Using the correlations inherent in this entanglement we are able to increase the resolution of an imaging system and suppress both sensor noise and background light. Our immediate goal is to recover an image of the object without interference from any thermal background or other light sources that might otherwise obscure or confuse what we are seeing. This work in the optical regime has strong parallels with proposals around quantum radar and it is an interesting exercise to consider what one might inform with respect to the other.
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