Xanadu Quantum Technologies has opened a CA$10 million (US$7.3m) advanced photonic packaging facility in Toronto, Canada.

It is the only end-to-end, ultra-low-loss photonic packaging facility of its kind in the country, the company said.

The advanced packaging line integrates custom tooling and proprietary processes that have been developed in-house with capabilities including ultra-low loss coupling for photonic integrated circuits (PICs), high-precision alignment, and hybrid bonding for R&D, prototyping, and pre-production volumes.

In addition to supporting Xanadu’s internal hardware roadmap, the company is also opening up the facility to external customers, including academic institutions, startups, and industry leaders developing next-generation photonic and quantum devices.

“This facility isn’t just a big technical achievement—it’s also a strategic one,” said Christian Weedbrook, CEO of Xanadu. “By building domestic capacity for high-performance photonic packaging, we’re strengthening Canada’s position as a global hub for quantum technology innovation.”

Founded in 2016, in January 2023, Xanadu raised C$40 million (US$27m) from the Canadian government’s Strategic Innovation Fund to build and commercialize photonic-based, fault-tolerant quantum computers. Prior to that, the company closed a US$100m Series C funding round in November 2022.

In February 2025, Xanadu built a prototype of the what it said was the world’s first universal photonic quantum computer, dubbed Aurora.

The 12-qubit machine consists of four photonically interconnected modular and independent server racks, containing 35 photonic chips and 13km of fiber optics. The system operates at room temperature and is fully automated, which Xanadu says makes it capable of running “for hours without any human intervention.”