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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

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