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Quantenkoffer: Quantum Physics Science Kit

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It’s like the iPod of portable quantum physics labs. Elegant and beautiful!

So what in the world does someone study to learn to design something like that? Computer Engineering with a PhD in experimental physics?

Not to diminish what is an excellent piece of engineering, because this is (seemingly) a very well designed product.

But none of this is that innovative — anyone familiar with optical tables would be able to conceive of “optical table, but safe plug and play”. [1]

To actually productize that vision:

- product/mechanical engineer for the case + fittings

- someone with a undergrad in optics, preferably familiar with laser tables

- an SDE familiar with embedded systems

- an EE familiar with embedded systems

[1] For people who may not be familiar with optical systems, many labs use plates like these onto which standard components are placed:

https://eksmaoptics.com/opto-mechanical-components/optical-t...

And in use:

https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/731030

I think this is much more than an optical breadboard. The trick with the periscope is IMHO neat and allows for clean separation of the user's experiment from the invariant photon generator/detector part. Turning on the guide beam with a touch of a button is magic to anyone who had to labor on an optical table.

This might allow for set-up, alignment and conduction of an experiment within the short time allotted in educational settings, which would be quite a challenge using less smart constituents.

Maybe it's better to think of it as a team product. That being said, I'm sure there are people who could build something like that on their own by combining the right classes in a good engineering school.

Its nice but no call to action button anywhere on any of their sites. How do I sign up for the launch? How do I buy it? Can you buy it? Etc..

The price seems to be around 30,000 €. You’ll probably have to contact them or a distributor for a quote.

https://www.qdusa.com/products/qutools_quantum_education_kit... Seems to be the us distributors listing for this kit

Too good for my pocket, without knowing how much costs. Obviously aimed at institutions.

$10k? $20k?

I was looking for something exactly this a while back but I'm guessing it's Not Cheap.

This article (behind paywall) about the quantenkoffer says that the price is EUR 30k.

Edit: Here is the link => https://www.schwaebische.de/landkreis/landkreis-ravensburg/r...

AdBlock blocker unfortunately

Ah, sorry. Found it as .pdf as well => https://www.spohngymnasium.de/images/stories/presse/SZ_2018_...

Here is the article as a pdf-file => https://www.spohngymnasium.de/images/stories/presse/SZ_2018_...

Is it in production? Or just a demo?

Seems like they sell it to schools and universities. Plan is to build in series with a price under EUR 10k

Source (in German): https://www.google.de/url?q=https://www.spohngymnasium.de/im...

I don't understand most of it, but boy, so gorgeously built!

Looks very interesting... Are they selling this?

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