applications

Six measurements, one core.

Five government mission classes and one commercial market, served by one static, field-widened optical core. Heritage cites the open literature; the company's own architecture is described under agreement.

  1. 01

    Satellite-QKD ground receivers

    Single-photon collection from a turbulence-broadened downlink under daylight solar background.

    Community
    Navy / ONR; ground-segment integrators; optical terminal builders
    Heritage
    Satellite quantum key distribution demonstrated in orbit (Micius, 2017); daylight operation as the recognised limit on key rate.
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  2. 02

    Quantum test and measurement

    High-étendue collection of weak nonclassical light that preserves photon statistics and entanglement visibility.

    Community
    ARO; NSF; DEVCOM ARL; instrument makers and laboratories
    Heritage
    Static interferometry's loss and phase-stability advantages apply directly to nonclassical light; instruments for this class are in design.
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  3. 03

    Doppler lidar and remote sensing

    Weak velocity-shifted returns collected over large solid angles and resolved at the sub-picometre level.

    Community
    ONR; DEVCOM ARL; NASA (PICASSO, MATISSE); DOE
    Heritage
    MIGHTI aboard NASA's ICON spacecraft (launched 2019); WINDII on UARS (1991–2003); Brillouin asymmetric receivers for ocean lidar in development at NASA.
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  4. 04

    Standoff Raman, CBRNE and process

    Large search volumes at high sensitivity, and Raman through packaging: a field-widened receiver collects the whole illuminated volume rather than a slit's worth of it.

    Community
    DEVCOM CBC; ONR; DHS (CBP, TSA)
    Heritage
    The founder's standoff spatial heterodyne Raman instruments, 2017–2021: time-resolved measurement with no entrance slit; remote Raman at 18 m. See the provenance timeline.
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  5. 05

    Missile tracking by Doppler emission

    Wide field-of-regard emission collection with a simultaneous Doppler history at high resolving power.

    Community
    MDA; Space Systems Command
    Heritage
    Doppler asymmetric heritage as above; the technique's original application was emission-line spectroscopy at ultraviolet wavelengths (1992).
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  6. 06

    Process-analytical Raman

    Throughput-limited measurements inside regulated process lines: faster line clearance at the same sensitivity, or deeper sensitivity in the same acquisition window.

    Community
    Analyzer OEMs; pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturers through them
    Heritage
    In-line Raman analyzers are established in pharmaceutical and chemical process control; a higher-étendue core raises their throughput without changing their form. Instruments for this class are in design.
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