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Top 21 Photonic computing companies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 39 photonic computing companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 741 professional contacts across them, including 210 with verified work emails. Glasgow is the largest hub.

This list covers photonic computing companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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The 21 largest photonic computing companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 21 of 39 photonic computing companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to photonic computing companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceLeeds, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20052 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Enabling a world of secure computing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2Indirect evidenceOxford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20044 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Salience Labs is transforming the networking layer of AI datacenter infrastructure.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20040 contacts →

Strong evidence

“ORCA Computing develops full-stack photonic quantum computers with the aim of unlocking new fields of applications and helping transform industries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4Strong evidenceSheffield, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5023 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Aegiq is a UK based full-stack photonic quantum computing company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5Indirect evidenceOxford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5022 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Lumai is enabling AI deployment at scale with the fastest, most energy-efficient AI processor for datacentres.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6Indirect evidenceSouthampton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20021 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“HiLightSemiconductor is a fabless chip company founded by veterans of multiple previous successful start-ups in the optical communications industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7Partial evidenceBegbroke, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5019 contacts →

Partial evidence

“DEVELOPING THE FUTURE OF LASER TECHNOLOGY AND PHOTONICS Opsydia develops and manufactures advanced laser processing systems for next-generation optical packaging and photonic…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8Indirect evidenceEdinburgh, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5018 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Skylark Lasers engineers ultra-stable single frequency CW DPSS lasers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9Partial evidenceGlasgow, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5018 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Kelvin Nanotechnology are an internationally recognised provider of Advanced Photonics and Quantum Components.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10Partial evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5016 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Wave Photonics is taking a computational approach to integrated photonics design.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11Strong evidenceBristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5013 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Duality is redefining computing for the 21st Century with low power photonic processors that run critical algorithms in nanoseconds.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12Partial evidenceGlasgow, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-1013 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Vector Photonics’ PCSELs are the first, major break-through in semiconductor laser technology for 30 years.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13Partial evidenceDidcot, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-508 contacts →

Partial evidence

“REDWAVE LABS LTD design and manufacture high quality custom electronics, specialising in photonics.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14Indirect evidenceBristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Detachable fibre-to-chip interconnects for CPO hardware engineering teams.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15Partial evidenceGlasgow, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-106 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Northern Light Microscopy is a Glasgow‑based precision photonics company developing advanced optical imaging solutions for the life sciences.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-105 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are the makers of Quantillion: a first-of-its-kind automated software platform for the development of optimised quantum photonic components and systems.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17Partial evidenceCossall, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-104 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Headquartered near Nottingham, UK, TerOpta is a British technology company, specialising in photonic communications R&D, optical device control for terrestrial and aerospace…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18Partial evidenceBasingstoke, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-503 contacts →

Partial evidence

“RayFos is a scientific software company specialising in high-performance, GPU-accelerated computing for real-time processing, sensing, and imaging.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19Partial evidenceEastbourne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-103 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ZiNIR Limited is your specialist outsourced photonics design consultancy with over 15 years of experience in the field.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20Partial evidenceWest Malling, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-102 contacts →

Partial evidence

“TOP Conference 2026 is a growing UK event dedicated to photonics and optical technologies, now entering its fifth year.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21Indirect evidenceLivingston, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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Photonic computing companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026
28.3%Verified-email coverage
19.0Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
10.3%Largest-city concentration · Glasgow
Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
13
11-50
17
51-200
7
201-500
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 39 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among photonic computing companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “photonic computing companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names photonic computing companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among photonic computing companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 210 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names photonic computing companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many photonic computing companies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 39 photonic computing companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Optalysys, headquartered in Leeds, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most photonic computing companies?

Glasgow leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Bristol (3) and Oxford (3).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 210 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 39 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.