News and BusinessGlobal foundry services provider CompoundTek and test solutions company STAr Technologies have formed a strategic collaboration to develop standards and solutions for cost-effective high-volume SiPh Wafer Test. Addressing the growing need for consistency and reliability across all applications of SiPh technology, the SiPh Wafer Test aims to spearhead the development of more standard processes and […]
News and BusinessUK-based Rockley Photonics has announced that Ahren Innovation Capital as an investor. Ahren is an investment fund that focuses on transformational companies at the intersection of deep tech and deep science. Its four broad fields of activity include the brain and artificial intelligence; genetics and platform technologies; space and robotics; and efficient energy. Ahren’s goal […]
News and BusinessSivers 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 […]
News and BusinessNokia is acquiring Elenion Technologies, a US-based company focusing on silicon photonics technology, to boost its optical capabilities in new markets. Elenion’s technology expertise and unique design platform and services will enable Nokia to expand its market footprint by addressing the critical and rapidly evolving optical connectivity requirements of 5G, cloud and enterprise networking, Nokia […]
News and BusinessMacom and GlobalFoundries (GF) have announced a strategic collaboration to ramp up Macom’s Laser Photonic Integrated Circuit (L-PIC) platform using GF’s current-generation silicon photonics offering, 90WG, to meet data centre and 5G telecom industry demands. Macom says the collaboration will leverage GF’s 300mm silicon manufacturing process to deliver requisite cost, scale and capacity that is […]
Technologies and ProductsRockley Photonics, a vendor of integrated optics for high-density digital systems, has announced the completion of its fully integrated silicon photonics platform running in a large-scale foundry environment. The company says it has successfully overcome significant technological challenges that have, until now, held back the broad adoption and implementation of integrated photonics in high-volume applications. […]
Technologies and ProductsAt its Imec Technology Forum USA in San Francisco, earlier in July, imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nano-electronics and digital technology, announced that it has demonstrated ultra-low power, high-bandwidth optical transceivers through hybrid integration of silicon photonics and FinFET CMOS technologies. With a dynamic power consumption of only 230fJ/bit and a footprint […]
Applications and ResearchEU Scientists are harnessing next generation lasers to create light-speed broadband connections and remove the data bottlenecks that could cause the Internet to grind to a halt as demand increases. A group of EU-funded researchers are incorporating VCSEL laser sources with silicon photonics to develop long wavelength, high capacity communications for the very first time, […]
Applications and Research• Project RAPSI: “Ramping up Silicon Photonics business in Finland” • Turning silicon photonics into a new competitive asset for the electronics industry • Optical microcircuits enhance health, security and computation capacity VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, together with Tampere University of Technology, are accelerating the development and commercialisation of silicon photonics products – […]
Technologies and ProductsInvestment in Elenion Technologies further addresses “explosive” market demand for hyperscale bandwidth with silicon photonic-based interconnect solutions. Molex Ventures has announced a strategic investment and collaboration between the Molex Optical Solutions Group and Elenion Technologies, a semiconductor company driving innovation around silicon photonics technology. The partners will jointly develop, manufacture and promote silicon photonic-based product […]
News and BusinessProducts to serve worldwide networks with optics/electronics requiring low-power and better economics. Rockley Photonics, a silicon photonics innovator for next-gen networks, has announced a joint venture with China’s Hengtong Optic-Electric to manufacture high performance optical transceiver modules based on Rockley’s silicon photonics technology. The joint venture was established based on a $42m co-investment led by […]
News and BusinessMellanox Technologies, a developer of smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, has announced that it is to discontinue its 1550nm silicon photonics development activities, effective immediately. Eyal Waldman, president and CEO of Mellanox Technologies, commented, “The Mellanox Board of Directors and management team continually review our strategic priorities and investments to […]
News and BusinessBy Tony Savvas, Contributing Editor The need for high-speed data transmission, increased data traffic in cloud computing and the rapid roll-out of the Internet of Things have created a potentially thriving photonic integrated circuit industry, according to research from analyst house Frost & Sullivan. The analyst says the need for speed and wider cloud use […]
Applications and ResearchFinnish research centre VTT has acquired a system from SemiProbe to perform automatic and simultaneous electro-optical tests at the wafer level. The new and improved system will support both research and the SiPh production activities at VTT Memsfab. The system, installed and operational at Micronova facility is able to handle 6in and 8in wafers and […]
News and BusinessTeramount has developed a technique to simplify the packaging of silicon photonics chips. Instead of using active alignment whereby an external laser is required to accurately connect a fibre to the chip, the Israeli start-up has developed a passive alignment technique. “If we want silicon photonics to ramp up to volume, it has to meet […]
Applications and ResearchLuxtera, a pioneer in silicon photonics developments, has partnered with TSMC for next-generation silicon photonics manufacturing. This cooperation enables key technologies for future cloud, mobile infrastructure, enterprise, and high-performance computing platforms. The companies are together developing what they are calling “an innovative silicon photonics technology platform” intended to more than double optical link performance while […]
Technologies and ProductsLuxtera at OFC 2017 announced the sampling of its 100G-CWDM2 QSFP optical transceiver module. Leveraging the company’s latest silicon photonics chipset, the LUX45202 optical transceiver has been developed to target 100G build outs for cloud, enterprise, and high performance computing end users. The LUX45202 offers customers superior performance and reliability, at a price point that […]
News and BusinessVisitors to OFC 2017 have the opportunity to meet with Macom Technology Solutions and learn how the company’s portfolio of products is addressing the high-performance analog interfaces between electrical and optical domains. Macom is providing solutions to meet the demanding size, power and signal integrity requirements of high-speed networks that are expanding to meet the […]
News and BusinessDatacenters with few other emerging applications will become a multibillion-dollar market for silicon photonics by 2025, according to market analyst company Yole Développement. The principal reasons for this expected boost for silicon technologies are that transporting increasing levels of data with existing technologies will soon reach its limit and photons will continue replacing step-by-step electrons […]
Technologies and ProductsVI Systems offers a driver IC for optical modulators which are designed for data rates of up to 56 Gbit/s non-return-to zero (NRZ) at 3 V modulation voltage. The IC is the first generation of ultrahigh-speed driver IC in SiGe BiCMOS technology. The target applications are in silicon photonic and integrated optoelectronic solutions for short […]