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Germany’s Sicoya builds Chinese photonics factory

By Antony Savvas

Sicoya GmbH, a player in monolithically integrated silicon photonics, is building a new factory in China for assembling and testing optical transceivers and engines. The factory installation includes anti-vibration foundations and clean room facilities that will allow the factory to perform CMOS wafer level post processing steps and downstream packaging processes. Sicoya develops integrated silicon […]

Technical Features

High-Performance Coherent in CMOS: Foundational technology for WDM Optical Networking

By Patricia Bower

Highlights • Optical networks continue to evolve with greater performance and flexibility based on a foundation of CMOS chip designs as fourth generation designs are under way • Techniques to advance performance in spectral efficiency pave the way for a fourth generation of coherent optical DSP chips • Optimisation of low-level circuits optimises designs for […]