Raymax is excited to be an exhibiting partner at the Quantum Australia Conference in Brisbane, 25-26 March 2025, which will draw quantum researchers, businesses, government decision-makers, startups, and big tech to share developments in a packed speakers program. Topics include quantum’s intersection with policy, security and ethics, scaling and adoption, economic impact, opportunities and investment, and the future workforce.
At the conference Chris Lay, Raymax Product Specialist for OEwaves, will be ready to discuss its scalable lasers that are ideal for quantum tech. Raymax Technical Director, Dr Cédric Chaminade, will be there to explain KWANTEACH, the hands-on quantum lab on a table designed for teachers and all students – from undergraduate, professional engineer to PhD level.
OEwaves fulfils quantum needs
OEwaves’ patented approach to injection-locking semiconductor lasers to crystalline, whispering gallery-mode resonators specifically addresses the needs of quantum applications.
OEwaves makes scalable Hi-Q lasers with exceptionally low phase and amplitude noise at specific wavelengths, with high free-running stability, high frequency tunability, and high actuation bandwidth allowing for efficient phase and frequency locks without electro-optical modulators.
Chris Lay says scalability is paramount for future quantum technology systems where multiples of units will be required.
“So OEwaves lasers are particularly suitable because, unlike other large, expensive lasers, OEwaves lasers’ smaller size, their lower weight, power consumption and cost (SWaP-C) are compatible with up-scaling for future systems,” says Chris.
As well as Hi-Q lasers, OEwaves manufactures laser noise analysers to measure the stringent parameters to be met in quantum technologies such as quantum communications, quantum computing, and quantum sensors, which take advantage of quantum phenomena such as superposition, quantum coherence, and entanglement, for increased performance.
“Quantum sensors, such as atomic clocks, quantum magnetometers, radar and lidar provide much higher performance for metrology than their classical counterparts,” says Chris.
OEwaves manufactures lasers in the UV and visible regions of the spectrum, where most atomic and ion transitions occur. With sub-Hertz linewidth, OEwaves’ lasers can increase the overlap with those narrow transitions, thus reducing the power needed to excite them.
OEwaves’ stand-alone whisper gallery mode resonator, millimeters in diameter
The lab on table, KWANTEACH
The KWANTEACH lab exploits the simplicity of the nitrogen vacancy colour centre of a diamond – a remarkable quantum system in itself – to demonstrate quantum sensing, quantum communication, and quantum computing and simulation.
This training model can be directly manipulated and experimented upon so students can watch and understand the processes in real time and at room temperature, without complex laser or vacuum systems. Both the lab and its teaching manual are modular and customisable to train people at all levels.
Dr Cédric Chaminade says KWANTEACH is totally unlike simulators.
KWANTEACH pulsed module
“KWANTEACH is a practical tool for teaching, learning and research in universities, graduate schools and any organisations offering professional development for corporate engineers who need to stay on top of quantum engineering and the opportunities it presents,” says Cédric.
“The KWANTEACH lab offers more than a dozen experimental activities, all detailed in the teacher’s manual, to guide academics from theoretical principles to experimental protocols and measurements in a fun, educational way so students grasp the concepts of quantum sciences,” he says.
The model lab is a set of building blocks or enabling technologies such as lasers, photodetectors, electronics, vacuum technologies, cryogenics, optical fibre, and nanofabrication. The building blocks can be assembled to experiment on concepts in the manual or as adapted by a teacher to train the next generation of quantum physicists and engineers.
To find out more, visit Raymax at the Quantum Australia Conference at Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, 25-26 March … or phone us on (61 2) 9979 7646
