Noor Photonics
Programmable photonics · Stockholm

Programmable quantum photonics.
The full stack, without compromise.

High-performance photonic processors, electronics, and software — delivered as one instrument, at a fraction of the cost.

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12×12universal interferometer mesh — 66 MZIs, 264 on-chip elements, shipping as Noor‑Q 12
0.97mean compilation fidelity with five failed phase shifters — recovered entirely in software*
2,500separately compiled unitaries executed in a single published experiment*
64 chprecision current drive per Koi controller — 16‑bit setting, 24‑bit readback per channel

* measured, peer-reviewed results — see Publications

Why Noor

Every layer of the stack. One vendor.

Others sell you a chip. We deliver the instrument.

Silicon processors

Universal interferometer meshes — packaged, fiber-coupled, thermally stabilized.

Noor‑Q series →

Control electronics

Koi: 64 channels of precision current drive and readback. Open firmware, open hardware.

Koi drivers →

Software & digital twin

Calibration, compilation, and a twin of your specific chip that keeps damaged hardware computing.

MZIC · Noor Twin →

Validated protocols

Application kits with protocols, notebooks, and expected results — HOM interference to neural layers.

Application kits →
The Noor Twin

Hardware faults become a programming problem.

At scale, a phase shifter always fails — and sequential calibration dies with it. The Noor Twin re-solves compilation globally across the surviving elements: published fidelity above 0.97 with any five phase shifters disabled.

Your processor doesn't retire on its first fault. It gets reprogrammed.

How the twin works
1.00 0.81 0 28 failed phase shifters 0.97 with 5 failed
Mean compilation fidelity to 100 Haar-random target unitaries on an 8×8 mesh vs. number of permanently disabled phase shifters. Recovery is software-only — no photon re-routing, no hardware repair.
Product lines

From a single driver board to a complete quantum photonics lab.

Macro photograph of a packaged Noor-Q programmable photonic processor: wire-bonded silicon die between edge-coupled fiber arrays

Noor‑Q processors

8×8 and 12×12 shipping, 24×24 in development — packaged, twin included.

Explore Noor‑Q → Render of a Koi 8-channel analog daughterboard with DAC, precision current sources, and card-edge connector

Koi control electronics

64 channels of precision drive and readback — priced for every bench.

Explore Koi → Concept diagram: light rerouted around a failed phase shifter in a programmable interferometer mesh

Software & the Noor Twin

MZIC Studio, the Noor SDK, and the damage-resilient twin at the heart of the platform.

Explore software → Rendered 12-mode programmable photonics stack: laser, optical switches, gold interferometer mesh, current drivers, host software

Application kits

Quantum, neuromorphic, non-Hermitian, and teaching — each with validated protocols.

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Applications

One mesh. Many sciences.

Quantum

Multi-photon interference, postselected gates, W states, boson sampling.

Neuromorphic

The mesh as a programmable linear layer — train through the twin, around imperfections.

Simulation

Non-Hermitian and topological dynamics — loss as a feature, not a flaw.

Education

A teaching lab with classical light and experiments that fit a two-hour session.

About

Born at KTH. Built for your bench.

Noor — نور — is Arabic for light.

Founded by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The instrument you receive is the one our own research runs on.

Meet the founders
Ali W. ElshaariCo-founder · Assoc. Professor, KTH
Andrea CataldoCo-founder · Researcher, KTH
Rohan YadgirkarCo-founder · Researcher, KTH

KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

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