OpenLight Unveils Brand Identity and Technology Portfolio to Usher in World's First Open Silicon Photonics Platform with Integrated Lasers
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--
--New Era of Laser Integration and Scalability Delivers Unparalleled
Performance, Power Efficiency and Reliability
Addressing the growing silicon photonics market requirements for improved
performance, power efficiency and reliability, OpenLight, a newly launched
company, today introduced the world's first open silicon photonics platform
with integrated lasers.
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OpenLight's platform provides a new level of laser integration and scalability
to accelerate the development of high-performance photonic integrated circuits
(PICs) in applications such as datacom, telecom, LiDAR, healthcare, HPC, AI,
and optical computing. The technology has passed qualification and reliability
tests on Tower's PH18DA production process. OpenLight expects the first open
Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) shuttle run on the PH18DA process as well as 400G and
800G reference designs with integrated lasers to be available in Summer 2022.
"We strongly believe that OpenLight's technology will transform the silicon
photonics industry," said Dr. Marco Racanelli, Senior Vice President and
General Manager of Tower Semiconductor's Analog Business Unit. "Providing an
open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers that has been qualified
on Tower's process will help mutual customers innovate and fuel the next
generation of silicon photonics designs at scale. We are excited to partner
with OpenLight in this journey."
As the optics industry advances, a major challenge for silicon photonics has
been laser integration and the high cost associated with adding discrete
lasers, including the manufacturing, assembly, and alignment of those lasers.
This becomes more important as the number of laser channels and the overall
bandwidth increases. By processing the Indium Phosphide (InP) materials
directly on the silicon photonics wafer, the PH18DA platform reduces the cost
and time of adding lasers, enabling volume scalability and improved power
efficiency. In addition, monolithically integrated lasers improve overall
reliability and simplify packaging.
"OpenLight is paving the way for the new generation of silicon photonics by
enabling the scalable integration of lasers in pluggable and co-packaged
optics," said Aveek Sarkar, Vice President of Engineering at Synopsys. "The
combination of Synopsys' unified electronic and photonic design solution (
https://www.synopsys.com/photonic-solutions.html ) and OpenLight's innovative
silicon photonics platform will significantly accelerate the development of
photonics ICs."
OpenLight operates under the tagline, "Open. Integrated. Scalable." The open
platform includes integrated lasers, optical amplifiers, modulators,
photodetectors, and other key photonic components to form a complete solution
for low-power, high-performance photonics ICs. In addition, OpenLight offers
select PIC designs and design services to accelerate time-to-market.
OpenLight's executive team brings decades of hands-on photonics design
experience and is led by Dr. Thomas Mader, Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Daniel
Sparacin, VP of Business Development and Strategy, and Dr. Volkan Kaman, VP of
Engineering.
"The rapidly growing silicon photonics market is being driven by the relentless
demand for higher bandwidth needed to analyze, store and move complex data,"
said Dr. Thomas Mader, Chief Operating Officer at OpenLight. "OpenLight's open
silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers enables scaling from one
laser to hundreds, or even thousands of lasers per PIC, all monolithically
integrated at the wafer level. With our platform, companies can enter emerging
markets faster, accelerate new applications and completely change the way their
teams build photonic systems of tomorrow."
About OpenLight
OpenLight has decades of experience in photonics design. Our executive and
engineering teams are delivering the world's first open silicon photonics
platform with integrated lasers to improve the performance, power efficiency,
and reliability of designs for telecom, datacom, LiDAR, healthcare, HPC, AI,
and optical computing applications. With over 200 patents, OpenLight is
bringing optical solutions to places it has never been before and enabling
technologies and innovation that weren't previously possible. Headquartered in
Santa Barbara, CA with offices in Silicon Valley, the company has approximately
40 employees. Read more on www.openlightphotonics.com
SOURCE: OpenLight
Contact: Roshin Mathew
The Hoffman Agency
+1- 213-374-6113
rmatthew@hoffman.com
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