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OpenLight’s CEO Adam Carter intros their PDK Sampler
In the following dialogue, Adam Carter chats about OpenLight’s new process design kit (PDK) - a tool to help accelerate designing...

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Apr 3, 20231 min read


In The Need For Speed, Chipmaker Broadcom Leads The Push For Silicon Photonics
"Top Gun" pilots aren't the only ones feeling the need for speed. So are data centers. And that has spurred the drive for silicon...

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Mar 30, 20231 min read


Tower Announces First Heterogeneous Integration of QD Lasers on SiPho Foundry Platform
Specialty analog foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd of Migdal Haemek, Israel, in collaboration with Quintessent Inc of Santa Barbara, CA,...

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Mar 28, 20231 min read


Researchers Develop Silicon Photonic MEMS compatible with Semiconductor Manufacturing
A team of researchers led by the University of Sydney’s Associate Professor Niels Quack has developed a new technology to combine optics...

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Mar 27, 20231 min read


iPronics Commercializes Easily Programmable Photonic Processors
The Spanish company has created programmable photonic chips for wireless signal processing, data centers, machine learning, and other...

Latitude Design Systems
Mar 27, 20231 min read


Optical switching at record speeds opens door for ultrafast, light-based electronics and computers
Imagine a home computer operating 1 million times faster than the most expensive hardware on the market. Now imagine that level of...

Latitude Design Systems
Mar 22, 20231 min read


Silicon photonics: Is it witchcraft?
It’s no secret silicon photonics faces wide-ranging challenges, including hybrid integration, finding new materials with added...

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Mar 20, 20231 min read


Optical I/O Technology Needed for Zettascale, Say Top Chipmakers
Optical I/O is being singled out by top companies to push computing beyond exascale and into zettascale. The technology was singled out...

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Mar 20, 20231 min read


Coherent Optics In Space
When it started, the space race was a competition between two superpowers, but now there are 90 countries with missions in space. The...

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Mar 16, 20231 min read


OpenLight Announces Availability of First Process Design Kit Sampler to Accelerate Component Testing
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire To enhance familiarity with process technologies and increase the accessibility of...

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Mar 15, 20231 min read


New York State Photonics Board Approves $27.5M investment in AIM Photonics’ Test, Assembly and Packaging Facility
The New York State Photonics Board of Officers met recently to discuss the state’s continued commitment to AIM Photonics’ Test, Assembly,...

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Mar 14, 20231 min read


Commercialization Accelerates for POET Technologies’ Platform Technology
POET Technologies has spent five years striving to deliver a game-changing platform technology to the market. Now, the POET Optical...

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Mar 13, 20231 min read


February 2023 Photonics Technology Roundup
Electro Optics examines some of the latest photonics technologies to hit the market this month: Imec integrates high-quality SiN...

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Mar 13, 20231 min read


Supermode Optical Resonator Moves Beyond Conventional Cavities
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 21, 2023 — Researchers in the lab of Federico Capasso at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied...

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Mar 6, 20231 min read


iPronics: Making Photonics Viable with Programmable Chips
Spanish photonics pioneer iPronics Programmable Photonics is making photonic computing and telecommunications applications commercially...

Latitude Design Systems
Feb 26, 20231 min read
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