Clients

Bookham Technology
Founded in 1988 as a UK company based originally based at Rutherford Appleton Labs, Bookham made history as the first company in the world to manufacture components that integrated optical processing functions on a silicon chip using high-volume production methods. In 2004, Bookham redomiciled to the US and is now a publicly traded company on NASDAQ. Bookham designs, manufactures and markets optical components and subsystems that enable broadband communications.
Most recently, Bookham acquired Avalon Photonics based in Zurich, Switzerland. Avalon is a leading provider of single-mode and multi-mode Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSEL) chips, arrays and subassemblies for sensing and datacom applications.
www.bookham.com

Read about our collaboration with Bookham here

Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) is the leading developer of technologies based on polymer light emitting diodes (PLEDs).
PLEDs are the fast growing new generation of display technology and are set to replace liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and cathode ray tubes (CRTs) in many existing applications, as well as opening up exciting possibilities for new product forms such as flexible or even wearable displays.
CDT is based in Cambridge, UK, with a state of the art Technology Development Centre a few miles away at Godmanchester.
www.cdtltd.co.uk

Read about our collaboration with CDT here

Mesophotonics Ltd was launched, as a University of Southampton spin-out company in 2001, to design and develop photonic crystal nano devices and take them to market.

In January 2005 Mesophotonics launched an innovative nanostructured surface material which allows the existing installed base of Raman spectrometers to be more than 1,000,000 times more sensitive.

Mesophotonics have used the Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) as a major analytical chemistry technique across a number of applications and industry sectors, including pharmaceuticals, oil production, chemical processes and life sciences.
www.mesophotonics.com

To read about how Qudos have worked with Mesophotonics click here

VLSI Vision
VLSI Vision (VVL) was started in 1990 as a spin-off from the University of Edinburgh and operated as a Fab-less company based in Edinburgh. As Vision Group in 1992 the company pioneered CMOS imaging sensors.

VVL was established to create the world's first image processing system on a single chip. At he time the cost of digital camera chips was hughely expensive, they claimed that it would be possible to build a digital camera for a few dollars using a CCD chip. Now they are produced in their thousands by a variety of companies.

The first colour camera chips for VVL were developed and produced at Qudos.