by Acacia
Silicon photonics has transformed coherent transmission by continually delivering significant reductions in the power, size, and cost of optical modules. An increasing number of optics vendors today are leveraging this technology for their pluggable coherent solutions. However, this was not always the case. Only nine years ago, many companies were challenging whether silicon photonics was even going to work at 100Gcoherent optics.
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