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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

-- Fully validated design provides customers with a shortcut to create 800G DR8

transceivers and accelerate customer time to market for data center applications

Delivering new levels of performance and scalability to accelerate the design

of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for datacom applications, OpenLight(

https://openlightphotonics.com/ ) today announced the availability of its first

800G DR8 PIC design targeted at datacenter interconnects. OpenLight has

fabricated and tested these wafers using the world's first open silicon

photonics foundry platform with integrated lasers offered by Tower

Semiconductor( https://www.towersemi.com/ ).

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The 800G DR8 PIC design provides customers with an easy-to-use, validated

approach to jump-start their transceiver production design. OpenLight's

achievement with on-chip laser integration and high-speed InP-based modulators

removes the need for the procurement and attachment of additional lasers into a

PIC, offering scalability with high-speed performance and cost at scale to

tackle complex designs. Built on Tower Semiconductor's silicon photonics

production process (PH18DA), the 800G DR8 PIC design is a fully validated PIC

design with an associated circuit model and available test datasets.

"As the number of users and devices per user continue to increase, the demand

for bandwidth and higher data rates will only grow multifold. We are seeing an

uptake in the adoption of silicon photonics and believe our first-of-its-kind

800G DR8 PIC design and available tested samples will help customers quickly

design optical transceiver modules and enable faster time to market for

emerging datacom needs," said Dr. Thomas Mader, Chief Operating Officer at

OpenLight. "Together with Tower, we are able to consistently offer scalable

design solutions and support the industry's move to 800G and beyond for

datacenters with integrated lasers."

"Our partnership with OpenLight continues to add new, silicon-proven IP to

Tower's existing open foundry offering, enabling customers to accelerate

development of next generation silicon photonics products with fully integrated

lasers," said Dr. Marco Racanelli, Senior Vice President and General Manager of

Tower Semiconductor's Analog Business Unit. "The process technology and PDK are

available to Tower customers along with regularly scheduled shuttle runs while

higher order IP such as the 800G reference design announced here, is available

through our partner OpenLight."

The 800G DR8 PIC sample kits are now available, and they come with design files

to enable customization ,if desired. High-speed test data is also available. To

learn more information on pricing and availability, contact OpenLight at

www.openlightphotonics.com.

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. The company is

headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with offices in Silicon Valley.

SOURCE: OpenLight

CONTACT: Roshin Mathew, The Hoffman Agency, 213-374-6113, rmatthew@hoffman.com