About Swave
Swave Photonics is a fabless semiconductor company based in Leuven, Belgium and Silicon Valley, CA
Spin-out from imec in Belgium
Designs and markets Holographic eXtended Reality chips, based on proprietary diffractive photonics technology
Disrupt the visualization market with immersive, ultra-high-resolution, true holographic displays
- Swave Photonics is a fabless semiconductor company based in Leuven, Belgium and Silicon Valley, CA
- Spin-out from imec in Belgium
- Designs and markets Holographic eXtended Reality chips, based on proprietary diffractive photonics technology
- Disrupt the visualization market with immersive, ultra-high-resolution, true holographic displays
Swave Photonics Management Team
100+ Years of Experience Bringing Semiconductor & Imaging Products to the Market
Mike Noonen
CEO
Dmitri Choutov PhD
Founder Chief Operating Officer
Theo Marescaux PhD MBA
Founder Chief Product Officer
Edward Buckley PhD
VP AR Systems
Andrew Repton
VP IC Design
Richard Stahl PhD
VP Systems Integration
Andrzej Kaczorowski PhD
Digital Holography Fellow
Board and Advisors
Pieter Vorenkamp
Chairman & Independent Director
John LeMoncheck
Independent Director
Ward Pitkin
Advisor
Gordon Wetzstein PhD
Advisor
World-Class team of 20 (13 PhDs) with experts in semiconductors, photonics/physics, IC design, optical systems and computer-generated holography.
Swave is Funded for Success
Swave's Investors
This operation benefits from support from the European Union under the InvestEU Fund.
Swave is Being Recognized as a Holographic Leader
CES Innovation Awards 2025 Honoree
Las Vegas
Jan 2025
The Photonics 100: Edward Buckley
Electro Optics Magazine
Oct 2024
Silicon 100: Startup to Watch
EE Times July 2023
€2.1M Non-Dilutive Investment
Flanders April 2023
Finalist Global Challenge
Paris March 2023
€2.5M Grant + Follow-on Equity
EIC Award October 2023
Startup to Watch
California June 2023
Finalist Luminate Investment
New York March 2023
1st Place SPIE Startup Challenge
Photonics West February 2023
