Vexlum wins €2.4M EIC Accelerator grant for laser tech advancements.

TLDR:

• Vexlum awarded €2.4 million grant from the European Innovation Council to advance semiconductor laser platform for quantum technology.
• Funding to be used for industrial-level scaling of quantum technology systems using trapped ions and neutral atoms.

Vexlum Ltd has recently been awarded a €2.4 million grant from the European Innovation Council as part of the EIC Accelerator Programme. The grant aims to advance Vexlum’s semiconductor laser platform for industrial-level scaling of quantum technology systems using trapped ions and neutral atoms. Vexlum’s laser platform has been validated in key quantum system experiments by early adopters and is a disruptive technology in the field. The new project, SEMIQLEAP, targets improved system performance with economic metrics for industrial scaling of quantum computers and ultra-high precision atomic clocks. The EIC Accelerator Programme aims to support critical technologies with disruptive innovations to scale up and drive the future of the Union, with a success rate of only 3.9%.