About
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.
Expertise
The team
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.
What the expertise is for
Every capability on this site rests on the same short list of hard problems: making an atomic reference small, making it survive being carried, making two of them behave identically, and being able to prove it. That work is experimental, and it is done by people at benches.
We publish the distillation rather than the biographies. What matters to somebody deciding whether to design us in is the aggregate: the disciplines represented, the volume of prior production experience, and the fact that the characterization equipment was built here because it could not be bought.
Locations
Where we work
Three sites, in two countries, chosen for what is around them rather than for where anyone happened to be.
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. Two disciplines sit underneath everything below: the manufacturing and characterization of quantum sensor components, and the volume qualification of quantum sensor components at production quantities.
Precise photonic characterization
A purpose-built lab in Boulder for characterizing photonic components at the precision quantum sensing demands.
Automated VCSEL test
An automated test and scan setup that takes VCSEL characterization from a bench process to a repeatable one.
Volume qualification
Qualification of quantum sensor components at volume, run out of New Mexico.
A fabless model
A distributed manufacturing network that lets us scale without owning a fab.