Noor Photonics
Programmable photonics · Stockholm

Noor means light.
We make it programmable.

Packaged silicon photonic processors for quantum and neuromorphic computing — shipped with the control electronics, the software, and the physics-informed digital twin to put them to work on day one.

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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 — electronics, software, and protocols included.

Silicon processors

Universal Mach–Zehnder meshes on a mature silicon platform — packaged, fiber-coupled, thermally stabilized, at a fraction of the cost of incumbent platforms.

Noor‑Q series →

Control electronics

Koi: 64 channels of precision current drive with per-channel voltage readback, purpose-built for thermo-optic phase shifters. Open firmware, open hardware.

Koi drivers →

Software & digital twin

Automated calibration, unitary compilation, and a physics-informed twin of your specific chip — the software layer that keeps damaged hardware computing.

MZIC · Noor Twin →

Validated protocols

Application kits with protocols, notebooks, and expected-result datasets — from Hong–Ou–Mandel interference to photonic neural layers.

Application kits →
The Noor Twin

Hardware faults become a programming problem.

Sequential calibration breaks the moment one phase shifter fails — and at scale, one always does. Every Noor‑Q ships with a physics-informed digital twin of your specific chip: when hardware degrades, compilation is re-solved globally across the surviving elements. Published result: 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

Universal programmable interferometer meshes — 8×8 and 12×12 shipping, 24×24 in development. Packaged, fiber-array coupled, 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 current drive and readback, hot-pluggable in banks of eight. Built for photonics; priced for every lab bench.

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

Software & the Noor Twin

MZIC Studio for control and calibration, the Noor SDK for programmatic access, and the damage-resilient digital 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 information, photonic neural networks, non-Hermitian physics, and a classroom-ready teaching edition — each with validated protocols.

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Applications

One mesh. Many sciences.

Quantum

Linear-optical quantum information: multi-photon interference, postselected two-qubit gates, W-state generation, boson-sampling experiments.

Neuromorphic

The mesh as a programmable photonic linear layer — train networks through the digital twin, around fabrication imperfections rather than against them.

Simulation

Programmable non-Hermitian and topological dynamics: engineered loss, synthetic lattices, exceptional points — loss as a feature, not a flaw.

Education

A complete programmable-photonics teaching lab with classical light, course-ready manuals, and experiments that fit in a two-hour session.

About

Born at KTH. Built for your bench.

Noor — نور — is Arabic for light.

Founded by researchers from the quantum photonics labs at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where every product was developed and validated in peer-reviewed experiments. The instrument you receive is the one our own research runs on.

Meet the founders
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Ali W. Elshaari

Co-founder
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Andrea Cataldo

Co-founder
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Rohan Yadgirkar

Co-founder

KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

Put a programmable interferometer on your bench.

Tell us about your experiment — quantum, neuromorphic, or something no one has tried yet. We'll tell you exactly what the platform can do for it.

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