Team

The people who built the instrument.

Noor Photonics is founded by the KTH researchers who designed, drove, and published the technology — the processors, the electronics, and the twin.

portrait · Ali W. Elshaari

Ali W. Elshaari

Co-founder · Associate Professor, KTH

Docent in Applied Physics and Marie Curie Fellow. Leads the Q‑PHOTON group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, with fifteen years of published work spanning silicon photonics, deterministic integration of quantum light sources, single-photon detection, and programmable quantum circuits. Previously head of KTH's Quantum and Nanophysics unit.

portrait · Andrea Cataldo

Andrea Cataldo

Co-founder · Researcher, KTH

Quantum photonics researcher in the Q‑PHOTON group. Co-first author of the damage-resilient digital-twin processor work and first author on interferometric readout of momentum-space topology in programmable dissipative circuits. Leads processor programming, twin training, and compilation at Noor.

portrait · Rohan Yadgirkar

Rohan Yadgirkar

Co-founder · Researcher, KTH

Photonics engineer in the Q‑PHOTON group. Leads Noor's control-electronics program — including the Koi 64-channel precision current-drive platform, from analog design through firmware to the measurement campaigns that validate it.

Origins

Out of the lab, deliberately.

Our products began as instruments we built because nothing on the market did the job — and they were validated the hard way: in peer-reviewed experiments, across years of operation, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

photo · the team in the KTH quantum photonics lab

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