What's New
(September 2008)
We have officially merged with Blue Angel Optics of Durham, North
Carolina. Our name will and place of business will stay the same.
Our MEMS device development expertise is complemented by Blue
Angel's Computational Imaging Technology and we are excited
about the future prospects of the new team.
(May 2008)
Since January, we have signed a Phase I SBIR with the Army
Aviation and Missile Command
(AMCOM) and a Phase II SBIR with the AFRL. We have also
acquired new office and laboratory space
in Durham. We anticipate moving in the month of June. Our new
address is :
Applied Quantum Technologies
Cedar Terrace Office Suites
3333 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd., Ste. E-100
Durham, NC 27707
(Jan. 2008)
We have a Phase II STTR from the ARO, and are in final
negotiations for a Phase I SBIR from the Army
Aviation and missile command. We will also be moving to a new
facility in a the next few months.
History of Applied Quantum Technologies
AQT was started in 2006 as a spin-off out of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. AQT
merged with Blue Angel Optics in 2008 to complement our MEMS
technology with computational imaging technology. We are based in
Durham, North Carolina and provide research and development
services and products to government and private sector customers.
What We Do
We are a high-tech startup commercializing technology in two
areas- micro-systems for beam steering and computational
imaging. We currently provide research and development services
to government and private sector customers in the areas of
high-speed beam steering, spectral imaging, and optical system
design and analysis.
We are experienced in the design, fabrication, characterization and
production of custom Micro ElectroMechanical based Systems
(MEMS) for a wide spectrum of applications. Our collective
backgrounds are in Quantum Information Science, MEMs design, Si
and III-V materials and optoelectronic device design, optical system
design, fabrication and characterization, electromagnetic modeling
and signal processing. Our core MEMS technology is a patent
pending multi-color, multiple beam, 2-D laser beam steering
system. The multiple beams are simultaneously and independently
controlled and has a system bandwidth approaching 1 MHz (settling
times approaching 1 microsecond). Immediate applications include
topics in Quantum Information Science, Biotechnology, LADAR,
telecommunications and spectroscopy.
Our computational imaging technology exploits the convergence
between digital signal processing and optical measurement. Our
technology allows for imaging systems with a set of capabilities
(multi-spectral, wide field-of-view, polarization, 3D, real-time) that is
currently unavailable in the marketplace. We are experienced in
complete system design and prototype development in the VIS-IR
spectral ranges.
Our future vision is to revolutionize imaging systems by merging
these two core technologies into Integrated Computational Imaging
Systems- allowing imaging systems to shrink without the traditional
performance degradation (for starters, imagine digital SLR
performance in the package of a cell-phone camera).


Applied Quantum Technologies
NOTE: There is another company with a similar name located in
Santa Clara, CA, Applied Quantum Technology. They seem to work
exclusively in photovoltaics and we are not affiliated with them, nor
do we have their contact information.