PICs for Quantum Advantage
Electronic Chips Underlie Everything Digital.
Photonic Chips Will Make Quantum Just as Ubiquitous.
We envision a world where quantum innovators can shrink their entire optical setup into a single chip. Our goal is to make photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design and development as simple and efficient as creating an electronic printed circuit board (PCB) is today.
The arc of technological progress shows us how science and engineering come together to operationalize ornate devices and complex processes. We’re writing the next chapter.
This is the quantum moment. Just as GPUs sit at the heart of the AI boom, QPICs will be the foundation of the quantum revolution.
Photonic Integrated Circuits for Colorado’s Quantum Industry
We founded our company with a clear mandate. The Mountain West’s quantum community needed reliable access to a fast-turn PIC fab.
They needed the flexibility to customize their designs. They needed to speed up their iteration cycles. They needed to reduce size, weight, and power (SWaP) in order to create robust products that meet end-user demands.
That’s why we joined forces with Elevate Quantum to establish our first PIC fab at the Quantum Commons in Arvada, Colorado.
Now, QPICs is dedicated to serving the needs of our first customers in Boulder, Denver, Golden, Albuquerque, and the whole region. As we scale our operations, we will serve the entire global allied quantum industry.
Meet Our Team
Chris Myatt, Ph.D.
CEO & Founder
Chris Wood, Ph.D.
CTO & Co-Founder
Bo Xu, Ph.D.
Process Scientist
Zahra Taghipour, Ph.D.
Senior Photonics Engineer
Brad Moores, Ph.D.
Chief Architect
Layton Baker, Ph.D.
Director of Fabrication Facilities
Helen Montoya Rae
Office Manager
Advisory
Chris Monroe
Chair of Scientific Advisory Board
About Chris Myatt
About Chris Myatt
Our Founder & CEO, Dr. Chris Myatt, is a lifelong entrepreneur with a passion for scaling up complex photonic devices.
After two successful exits at photonics companies he founded—LightDeck Diagnostics and Precision Photonics—Chris’s career has a clear throughline. He loves solving this kind of puzzle and believes in the world-changing potential of PICs for quantum applications.
Chris graduated from University of Colorado (CU) Boulder with a PhD in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) Physics, and he went on to complete his postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder under two Nobel laureates.
He currently serves as an advisor to the board at Vescent Technologies, a quantum photonics company in Golden, Colorado, and he is a member of the CU Boulder Physics Department Advancement Advisory Committee.
About Chris Wood
About Chris Wood
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