Company Profile

Headquartered in Leeds, UK with offices in Bristol, Optalysys enables the future of secure computing by processing data at scale, without it needing to be decrypted. It does this by using the power of advanced silicon photonics to enable Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a cryptographic technology that allows organisations to explore new ways to unlock value from data.
Data has become one of the world’s most valuable commodities, but due to technical, regulatory or commercial barriers, it’s often siloed within organisations, delivering a fraction of its potential value. FHE is a significant breakthrough in data security, allowing computations to be performed on encrypted data. However, current electronic computing methods are too slow to run FHE.
Optalysys offers the only solution that overcomes the limitations of FHE – using light to power computation. Under certain conditions, light can process vast amounts of information at a very high speed. Harnessing that speed, with the semiconducting properties of silicon, Optalysys is creating the world’s first silicon photonic chip for FHE, enabling the future of secure computing at an unprecedented scale.