CCTV host Dong Qian interviewed Xia Haiyun, chairman of Guangzai Technology, an incubatee of the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics, on the program Trust in China, discussing the path of independent innovation in domestic LiDAR.
Six companies incubated by the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics - Kaisis Technology, Guangzhiyun, Guangzai Technology, Aijie Photonics, Bangqizhou, and Gaoxi Thermal - were selected for the proposed first batch of Hangzhou's "Promising Seedlings" enterprises. Kaisis Technology was also selected for the proposed 2025 Hangzhou "New Eaglet" enterprise list. The selected companies cover areas including cold atom clocks, optical intelligent algorithms, LiDAR, silicon-based optoelectronic chips, and metasurface optical devices.
Guangzai Technology, an incubated company of the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics, collaborated with the University of Cambridge, Southeast University and others to publish a paper in Sustainable Cities and Society, proposing SCE-Model, a spatiotemporal carbon emission model optimized by machine learning and validated by LiDAR. The model output is highly consistent with coherent differential absorption LiDAR observations (R² = 0.79; ±5 ppm), enabling hourly, block-level carbon emission mapping.
The research project "Study of High-Precision, High-Sensitivity Wind Field Measurement Technology Based on Optical Frequency Comb Calibration," completed by Professor Xia Haiyun, chief scientist and founder of Guangzai Technology, won second prize in the 2024 National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award, marking a major breakthrough for Guangzai Technology in national defense science and technology honors. The award, announced by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, is the highest distinction in the national defense science and technology field. Guangzai Technology is a high-tech LiDAR company focused on the R&D and manufacturing of intelligent LiDAR systems for ground-based, airborne, shipborne, and spaceborne platforms.
In the five years since it began operations, the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics has incubated more than 60 optoelectronic 'hard tech' companies, over 20 of which have secured follow-on financing, drawing more than 2.5 billion yuan in external capital in total. Its full-chain 'equipment + funding + talent' model, backed by a modular and standardized service system, helps scientists cross the 'valley of death' in technology commercialization. The incubated companies span atmospheric laser remote sensing, gallium oxide single crystals, cold atom clocks and other fields. The operating model was reported by Daily Business News and reposted and endorsed by the Hangzhou Municipal Government and several other government new media platforms.
The Atmospheric Multi-Parameter Doppler LiDAR developed by a team led by Professor Xia Haiyun, founder of Hangzhou Guangzai Technology Co., Ltd., an incubated company of the Hangzhou Institute of Optics and Mechanics, and dean of the School of Atmospheric Physics at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, won the Gold Award on the China Optoelectronic Instrument Brand List at the third Jin Sui Awards. The final review selected 49 winning projects, including 14 gold, 20 silver and 15 bronze awards. Guangzai Technology focuses on single-photon, coherent, femtosecond, superconducting and microwave photonics technologies, developing intelligent remote sensing LiDAR for ground-based, airborne and spaceborne platforms.