About us


We’re solving the datacenter power crisis with silicon nitride photonics.

The AI revolution is hitting a wall. Modern datacenters consume megawatts of power for optical interconnects alone. Traditional solutions, which are built on decades old technology, can’t keep pace with the bandwidth demands of AI training clusters and next-generation telecommunications networks. 

Solinide Photonics is changing that equation. 

A 10x Efficiency Breakthrough

Our silicon nitride photonic molecules achieves >60% optical conversion efficiency from CW laser light to optical combs  this is a fundamental leap beyond the industry standard of 5-10%. By replacing multiple discrete lasers with a single micro-comb photonics chip, we’re enabling co-packaged optics (CPO) architectures that dramatically reduce power consumption, footprint, and cost at datacenter scale. 

This isn’t incremental improvement. It’s a new physics-based approach to optical interconnects.

Built on World-Class Research

Solinide was founded by photonics researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, one of Europe’s leading institutions in integrated photonics. Our team combines deep academic expertise with proven industry experience. We’ve achieved sub-0.03 dB/cm propagation loss, Q-factors around 5 million, and 28 wavelength channels above 0dBm in our current SiN Processes.

From Lab to Datacenter

We’re a Pre-Seed company building the next generation of optical interconnect technology for AI datacenters, telecommunications networks, and quantum communications.

Our approach combines breakthrough academic research with deep industry validation—de-risking the path from prototype to production deployment. 

  • Headquarters: Partille, Sweden
  • Founded: 2021

Meet our team


Dr. Marcello Girardi

CEO & Co-founder

Expert in multilayer silicon nitride photonic circuits 

Dr. Oskar B. Helgason

CTO & Co-founder

Specialist in nonlinear photonics and frequency comb optics 

Prof. Victor Torres-Company

CSO & Co-founder

Leading authority on ultrafast photonics and coherent optical communications 

Håkan zadiK

COO

Veteran leader with multi-country operational experience and deep expertise in innovation and business strategy

Dr. Mark Holm

VP of Technology

20+ years bringing photonic systems to market at Huawei, Selex Galileo, and Agilent 

Dr. Pradheebha Surendiran

Fabrication Engineer

Specialist in nanodevice fabrication and SiN-based microcomb technology 

Dr. Symeon Sideris

Photonics Engineer

Expert in nonlinear light-matter interactions and integrated photonic circuit design

Dr. Alexander Grabowski

Design Engineering & Co-founder

Expert in GaAs vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for datacom