EPFL to push quantum sensing in the mid infrared through MIRAQLS
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At the School of Engineering, professors Cristina Benea-Chelmus, head of the Hybrid Photonics Laboratory (HYLAB) and Hatice Althug, head of the Bionanophonics Systems Laboratory (BIOS) raised 1.15 MCHF to push quantum sensing in the mid infrared through MIRAQLS by horizon Europe.
MIRAQLS is an EU-Canada project that will support fundamental research in quantum technology. The international multidisciplinary consortium, set up to develop quantum sensing research in the mid-infrared field, will facilitate new collaboration between researchers in Canada and the EU. It gathers world-class researchers to address many technological and societal challenges.
In Switzerland, both EPFL’s laboratories are working closely with ETHZ and two Swiss partners: IRSWEEP and Menhir Photonics.
MIRAQLS is one of the three jointly funded projects in quantum research and innovation announced by the European Union and Canada which includes, in Europe, researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) in Switzerland, the Universität Paderborn in Germany, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain, the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca in Italy and the University of Glasgow and University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, and on the Canadian side, the Polytechnique Montréal and the University of Toronto, as well as various industrial partners.