Akhetonics is developing the first all-optical RISC processor. They are a start-up based and founded in Germany in 2021 with members from all over the EU. With their in-house developed photonic design automation tools and all-optical logic gates Akhetonics is in a unique position to develop the first all-optical digital computation devices. One of the goals is to provide the next generation of extremely parallelizable digital hardware on the same platforms as photon-based quantum devices, to enable high-interoperability, digital control and classical post-processing.

Applications:
Akhetonics’ processors aim
to solve digital processing and digital control in the optical domain, enabling classical pre- or post-processing for:

• Optical QKD
• Quantum-Classical Hybrid Machine Learning
• Photonic Quantum Computing