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CST Global extends its silicon photonics portfolio in collaboration with imec.

By Peter Dykes

Sivers IMA Holding AB, has announced that its photonics business unit, CST Global, in collaboration with its research and innovation partner, imec, is expanding its silicon photonics portfolio. The joint technology offering is expected to encourage the uptake of silicon photonics in cost-sensitive applications, including optical interconnects, optical sensing, cloud computing and beyond. Silicon photonics […]

Applications and Research

CST Global develops unhackable Quantum Key Distribution technology

By Peter Dykes

Scotland-based CST Global has developed Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) emitter and detector technologies as part of a UK-funded, government project. The company says these technologies can enable totally secure, network communications. QKD suits mission-critical, client server applications, where unbreakable security codes prevent hacking and malicious attack. QKD can be applied to existing IT infrastructures and […]

Technologies and Products

CST Global’s XG-PON 1270nm 2.5G Lasers show ‘outstanding’ eye diagram performance up to 85°C.

By Peter Dykes

Scotland-based CST Global has announced that samples of its UK-manufactured 1270nm 2.5Gb/s lasers have shown ‘outstanding’ Eye Diagram performance, with Eye Mask Margins of 34% and Extinction Ratios up to 9.3dB. The lasers significantly performed over and above XG-PON, ITU-G.987 specification requirements at temperatures up to 85°C and have exceeded 2000 hours in accelerated life […]

Applications and Research

CST Global targets Chinese market with new comms laser technology

By Peter Dykes

Glasgow-based CST Global is targeting expansion in the Far East following the development of a new range of telecommunications laser products, which could see the business tap into China’s burgeoning demand for cable television. The Scotland-based foundry service and manufacturer, which employs 66 staff, has developed a new high-quality, cost-effective communications wavelength laser that enables […]

Applications and Research

CST Global, CSC and Swansea University receive ACNM funding to commercialise semiconductor fabrication processes.

By Peter Dykes

A new project to scale-up novel compound semiconductor device fabrication processes has received European funding through the Avenues of Commercialisation for Nano and Micro Technologies (ACNM) initiative. The project, which should result in a number of new fabrication processes being developed, will be a collaboration between Swansea University, Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC) and Blantyre, Scotland-based […]

Technologies and Products

OFC: CST Global announces sample availability of its TO Can format, 1270nm lasers for next-generation, FTTH markets.

By Peter Dykes

CST Global has announced that samples of its 1270nm, 10Gbps and 2.5Gbps DFB lasers are now available in standard, TO-56 Can packaging. The lasers are for the worldwide, high-speed, Fibre-To-The Home (FTTH) market; valued at US$7.3 billion in 2019, with a CAGR exceeding 7%*. The announcement comes ahead of CST Global’s attendance at the OFC […]

Technologies and Products

CST Global gets £320,000 to develop 200G CWDM transceivers

By Matthew Peach

Pictured: Andrew McKee, Technical Director at CST Global. CST Global, a subsidiary of Sivers IMA Holdings and an independent, UK-based III-V opto-electronic, semiconductor foundry is a consortium member of the Innovate UK, government-funded, SUPER8 research project. The SUPER8 project is designed to develop scalable 200Gbps, super-thermal, 8-channel CWDM (Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing) architecture. This will […]

Applications and Research

‘Detuned’ DFB lasers increase modulation efficiency in fibre-optic transmission.

By Matthew Peach

Horacio Cantu of CST Global confirms finding at the AOP conference. CST Global, a UK-based independent III-V opto-electronic semiconductor foundry has announced that its research engineer Horacio Cantu was this month invited to speak at the Applications in Optics and Photonics (AOP) conference in Faro, Portugal. Cantu presented his recently published white paper entitled, “Performance […]