We put out a call for tenders to find support for our QCOptSens | Instrument Design sensor project. Wave Cube Innovations has now been awarded the contract. The Berlin-based start-up is supporting us in the further development of optical imaging sensor systems through the use of innovative quantum technology methods.
The DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems has been developing highly complex camera systems and spectrometers for applications in aerospace, security and transport for many years. The high-precision coordination of optical, mechanical, thermal, electronic and software-supported subsystems represents a considerable challenge in instrument design. Conventional design and calibration methods are increasingly reaching their limits due to the large number of interdependent parameters that need to be taken into account in the development process and the calibration required after production. An integrated approach to instrument design and calibration could significantly improve the imaging quality of optical sensor systems.
Together with the Berlin start-up Wave Cube Innovations, which has extensive experience in the optimisation of diffractive structures using classical and quantum-based methods, our QCOptSens project at the DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems is researching new approaches to the geometric calibration of optical systems, taking real manufacturing restrictions into account.
Combination of classical and quantum-based theory
The QCOptSens | Instrument Design call aims to develop such new methods for improving optical instruments for aerospace applications. The focus is on the calibration of diffraction-based components, the design of which leads to complex optimisation tasks under real production conditions – tasks that hybrid quantum algorithms may be able to solve more globally than with conventional methods.
For QCOptSens, Wave Cube Innovations combines classical physical models with quantum-based simulation methods to develop an algorithm that captures the underlying problem as precisely as possible. This algorithm could later be implemented and executed on our quantum computers via QCI Connect. In this way, QCOptSens and Wave Cube Innovations are not only creating innovative scientific results, but also a basis for future industrial applications.
Wave Cube Innovations
Wave Cube Innovations develops intelligent high-technology solutions at the interface of photonics, high-performance computing and quantum computing for the geometric calibration of optical systems through the use of diffractive structures and systems in the aerospace sector.
