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About Mesa Quantum

Mesa Quantum builds chip-scale quantum sensors — and the manufacturing that makes them real. Our mission is the mass adoption of quantum devices, which means solving the manufacturing and characterization problems that have kept them in the lab.

The team

Expertise, not résumés

Our team spans atomic physics, photonics, RF and embedded systems, high-reliability hardware and volume manufacturing. Collectively they bring decades of experience from national laboratories, defense primes and semiconductor manufacturing, with peer-reviewed publications across quantum sensing and photonic devices.

More than twenty scientists and engineers, and 100+ years of combined experience, are behind the manufacturing and characterization of quantum sensor components described on this site. We publish the distillation rather than the individuals.

Two engineers at an optics bench crowded with mounts, mirrors and cabling, one pointing at the setup while the other adjusts a mount
Bench workThe work this page describes happens two people at a bench, not on a slide. The figures here were generated; they are not Mesa Quantum staff, and neither is the bench.Generated illustration · gpt-image-2
20+scientists and engineers
3research and manufacturing sites
100+years of combined experience

Where we work

Three places, one programme

Boulder, Colorado

A quantum hub, alongside CU Boulder, NIST and Elevate Quantum. Home to our precise photonic characterization lab.

New Mexico

The land of atomic technology, and a state investing hard in quantum manufacturing — alongside CHTM at UNM, Sandia/CINT and the Roadrunner Quantum Lab.

United Kingdom

We believe the UK is well positioned to lead the commercialization of quantum technology, and we work there with NPL and the University of Cambridge.

Vision

The problems we solved to get here

Mass adoption of quantum sensors required tackling manufacturing and characterization challenges nobody had solved. We solved them for ourselves, because there was no supplier to buy them from.

Each of the four below started as something we needed and could not buy. Volume qualification of quantum sensor components is the one that decides whether any of the rest of this reaches a customer.

A researcher in cleanroom coverall and gloves working at a microscope station, seen from behind and to the side
CleanroomCharacterization is a cleanroom discipline before it is a data problem. The figure here was generated and does not exist; this is not Mesa Quantum's cleanroom or its staff.Generated illustration · gpt-image-2
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    Precise photonic characterization

    A purpose-built lab in Boulder for characterizing photonic components at the precision quantum sensing demands.

  2. 02

    Automated VCSEL test

    An automated test and scan setup that takes VCSEL characterization from a bench process to a repeatable one.

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    Volume qualification

    Volume qualification of quantum sensor components, run out of New Mexico.

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    A fabless model

    A distributed manufacturing network that lets us scale without owning a fab.