NKT Photonics

NKT Photonics is a global leading manufacturer of photonic crystal fibers, supercontinuum lasers and singlefrequency lasers. NKT is headquartered in Denmark with production facilities in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. The Koheras product line of single-frequency lasers are typically installed in coherent sensing systems for long-range fence security, pipeline integrity monitoring, oil and gas exploration, down-the-well sensing, high-precision vibrometers, and wind LIDARs. Koheras lasers are also important tools in metrology for atomic clocks, quantum information, quantum computers and high-resolution spectroscopy, and they have contributed to and enabled important research results in different areas of fundamental science. They play a vital role in fusion energy, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) radio astronomy telescope, and ESA’s SWARM mission. The Future Technologies group at NKT is committed to research and collaboration with external partners from universities and industry. Previous and current international projects related to strontium clocks include the EU funded iqClock, MoSaiQC and AQuRA. Also, we are developing laser systems for trapping and cooling of barium ions for quantum computers in the Q-BID project funded by Innovation Fund Denmark.

NKT has commercial production facilities for single-frequency fiber lasers and laser systems at the headquarters in Denmark. The R&D facilities include several labs for prototype development, testing environmental stability and characterization of laser phase- and amplitude-noise at various wavelengths. For QuRIOUS, NKT’s fiber draw tower and Bragg grating writing station are of particular benefit.

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Patrick Montague is an Engineering Manager at NKT Photonics focused on next generation photonic technologies for future product integration. He gained a PhD in Physics from the University of Auckland and after working as an Optical Engineer at NKTP for 4 years, took on a leadership role managing a team of Engineers. His team studies lasers technology relevant to all of NKTP’s product lines ranging from supercontinuum and nonlinear optics to single-frequency lasers, amplifiers, and accessories. He has been involved in numerous EU-funded projects including as coordinator and participated in earlier efforts on cold atom research including AQuRA, iqClock, and MoSaiQC.

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