Ariane 6 launch program chooses ID Quantique single-photon-counting technology

Dec. 17, 2017

The technologies developed under this Ariane 6 program require the highest level of performance and reliability.

ID Quantique will supply single-photon technologies to the next-generation space launch vehicle Ariane 6.

Under a program of and funded by the European Space Agency (ESA; http://www.esa.int/ESA), ID Quantique (Geneva, Switzerland) will supply high-reliability single-photon technologies to Ariane 6, the next generation of space launch vehicles built by ArianeGroup on behalf of the ESA. ArianeGroup is the prime contractor and design authority for Ariane 6.

The technologies developed under this Ariane 6 program require the highest level of performance and reliability, for which ID Quantique's single-photon systems have been selected: the ID280 single-photon detector, ID900 Time Controller with its OTDR package and ID300 Laser. ID Quantique says this collaboration reinforces its experience in the space sector and guarantees the long-term support of its products.

SOURCE: ID Quantique; https://www.idquantique.com/idq-single-photon-technologies-arianegroup/

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Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.