about us

After the huge success of electronic integrated circuits many believed that optical integrated circuits are next. It hasn't happened. While the electric current easily follows wiring bends, light tends to propagate straight, making interconnection of optical elements difficult. Yet large investments in optical communications in the last two decades resulted in development of promising integrating technologies, including arrayed waveguide gratings and planar waveguides.

Vladimir Yankov formed the NanoOptic Devices in 2007 to unleash the potential of Digital Planar Holography, realizing a variety of complex photonic functions and devices on compact planar chips compatible with modern microlithographic manufacturing processes.

Since then, the team of highly qualified and accomplished physicists supported by their investors has proven and tested the technology in a variety of applications, which include record-bright laser diodes, mux/demuxes, on-chip spectrometers and quantum computing.