Scottish Companies to Help Develop Satellite Communication System

Wide Blue 08 September 2023

Wideblue and A2E, two leading Scottish product design companies, are helping the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP) based in Glasgow with an ambitious project to develop an optical communications system with very low size, weight and power requirements for use with high-altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPS).

The project uses the latest breakthroughs in micro-LED light sources and single photon detectors pioneered by the University of Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics over the past two decades.

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