SPhotonix is building the Active-Archival Storage Tier for AI Data Centres

Founded by the inventor of 5D optical data storage to turn three decades of research into shipping technology – durable fused-silica data storage for hyperscalers, data centres and the industries that depend on them.

Our Mission

To make data storage durable, scalable and sustainable for the next generations growing data storage needs.

Our Values

Physics over Promises

We make claims a laboratory can verify. Durability measured in accelerated aging, capacity measured on real platters — never marketing projections.

Build for Deep Time

Every engineering decision assumes the reader may arrive a century from now. Formats stay open, media stays passive, knowledge stays recoverable.

Precision as Culture

A company that positions voxels to 20 nanometres cannot be sloppy anywhere else. Rigour in the lab extends to rigour in every commitment.

Open Science Roots

Three decades of peer-reviewed research underpin the product. We publish, collaborate with universities, and stand on reproducible results.

Foundational Science

The technology behind SPhotonix has been demonstrated, stress-tested and refined since 2003.

2003

Nano-gratings discovered

Prof. Peter Kazansky, our Chief Science Officer, discovers how to write nano-gratings into glass with ultrashort laser pulses.

Peer-reviewed paper

2013

The idea of storing data

A conversation between Peter and his son Ilya, an electronic engineer, sparks the idea of using the technology for data storage.

Peer-reviewed paper

2024

SPhotonix founded

After years of refining the technology, SPhotonix was founded by Peter and Ilya to bring these innovations to the world. This is the start of data storage for the AI generation.

2025

Funded and Swiss R&D lab built

SPhotonix completes a successful capital raise and builds a cutting-edge R&D photonics facility in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

2026

Key breakthroughs

2026 has seen write speeds up 10× and read speeds up 100×, and the team has created the world's first single-platter, multi-storage device.

Aerial view of the Neuchâtel lakeside campus — Neuchâtel Lab, Switzerland

Leadership Team

Three decades of science. Built to ship.

SPhotonix brings together pioneers in photonics, laser processing and storage engineering to turn 30 years of 5D optical-storage research into an industrial data-storage platform.