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Molex invests in Elenion to ‘accelerate innovation in silicon photonics’

By Matthew Peach

Investment 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 […]

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Rockley Photonics and Heng Tong Optic-Electric for joint venture

By Matthew Peach

Products 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 […]

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Mellanox to discontinue its 1550nm silicon photonics development

By Matthew Peach

Mellanox 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 […]

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Need for speed and cloud drive new silicon photonics industry says analyst

By Optical Connections News Team

By 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 Research

VTT acquires a new test system for the production of silicon photonics

By Matthew Peach

Finnish 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 […]

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Israeli start-up targets silicon photonics packaging

By Roy Rubenstein

Teramount 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 Research

Luxtera to offer high-performance silicon photonics platform with TSMC

By Matthew Peach

Luxtera, 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 Products

OFC 2017: Luxtera debuts duplex 100G-CWDM2 optical transceiver module

By Matthew Peach

Luxtera 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 […]

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Macom boosts bandwidth density in optical networks for 100G and 400G

By Matthew Peach

Visitors 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 […]

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Silicon photonics ready for take-off towards ‘multibillion-dollar’ market

By Matthew Peach

Datacenters 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 Products

50 Gbit/s NRZ modulator driver for Silicon Photonics

By Per Danielsen

VI 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 […]