Technology hub: Quantum sensing and metrology
Function: Imaging, microscopy and ranging
Forming images, microscopy maps or range and target information with quantum light or quantum probes, beyond what classical imaging resolves.
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- Proposed — not yet validated by an expert
- Sources
- Quantum Flagship: Strategic Research and Industry Agenda (SRIA) for quantum technologies, draft for the second phase of the public consultation; chapter 3, Quantum Sensing & Metrology Roadmap Update 2026 (pp. 75 to 100), p. 76 (quantum imaging, TRL 3 to 7); p. 77 (NV-based imaging) (read 2026-10-29)
- CEN/CENELEC JTC 22 Quantum Technologies: Standardization Roadmap on Quantum Technologies, Release 1.1 (June 2025), JTC22 Q06; chapter 9, Quantum metrology, quantum sensing and quantum imaging, p. 92 (d: sub-shot-noise imaging, quantum enhanced microscopy, quantum illumination and quantum radar/LiDAR, quantum ghost imaging) (read 2026-10-29)
- Publications Office of the European Union: 0c67e976-ff93-4ca9-8ec7-ac06876e3e41 microscopy (broader match) (read 2026-10-29)
- Maturity as stated by the draft SRIA 2026 (p. 76)
- TRL 3 to 7
Classification rules of this value
families: quantum-imaging; keywords: imaging, imager*, microscop*, ghost imaging, quantum lidar, lidar, quantum radar, quantum illumination, super-resolution, tomograph*
72 confirmed items have this value.
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- Exploring nanoscale magnetic phenomena using a quantum microscope
- Quantum Sensing with Spectrometers Based on Advanced Time-Stamping Single-Photon Imaging Sensors
- Integrated Quantum LIDAR
- Quantum Enhanced Imaging
- Electrochemical force microscopy and quantum sensing of the solid-liquid interface: improving batteries through nanoscale electrochemical imaging
- Electrochemical force microscopy and quantum sensing of the solid-liquid interface: improving batteries through nanoscale electrochemical imaging
- QuantoLiSense: Quantum LiDAR Sensing for Intelligent Non-Destructive Evaluation of Transport Infrastructure
- Technical and Commercial Feasibility of Quantum Radar and Lidar
- Space Debris Quantum Imaging Service
- Full-field Coherent Quantum Imaging
- Full-field Coherent Quantum Imaging
- Full-field Coherent Quantum Imaging
- Quantum Imaging
- Spatially multimode squeezed light for quantum imaging and one-way quantum computing
- UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Enhanced Imaging
- Space Debris Quantum Imaging Service
- QuantIC - The UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Imaging
- Quantum Imaging for Monitoring of Wellbeing & Disease in Communities
- Large Baseline Quantum-Enhanced Imaging Networks
- Event-driven Imaging For Quantum Sensing of Low-Mass Dark Matter & Neutrinos (EDIQuS)
- Mathematical Tools for Practical Quantum Imaging Protocols
- Quantum Radar
- Single Photon and Quantum Enhanced Imaging
- Quantum sensing and imaging.
- Theoretical Quantum Imaging and Tomography
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