Mach–Zehnder interferometer

Coherent Announces the World’s First 6-Inch Indium Phosphide Scalable Wafer Fabs Paving the Way for the Next Generation of Lasers for AI Transceivers and 6G Wireless Networks

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Montag, März 25, 2024

PITTSBURGH, March 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leading provider of compound semiconductors and high-performance optical networking solutions, announced today it has established the world’s first capability for 6-inch indium phosphide (InP) wafer fabrication, in the company’s Sherman, Texas, and Järfälla, Sweden, wafer fabs.

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  • PITTSBURGH, March 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leading provider of compound semiconductors and high-performance optical networking solutions, announced today it has established the world’s first capability for 6-inch indium phosphide (InP) wafer fabrication, in the company’s Sherman, Texas, and Järfälla, Sweden, wafer fabs.
  • This exciting milestone enables Coherent to increase production capacity and lower die costs for InP optoelectronic devices, widely used in applications such as coherent optical communications, datacom transceivers, AI interconnects, advanced sensing for consumer electronics and wearables, medical and automotive applications, and, in the future, in 6G wireless and satellite communications networks.
  • “We are very excited to announce our 6-inch indium phosphide wafer fabrication capability in both our Sherman and Järfälla fabs, which is a result of our continuous investment in innovation and technology development, and our years of investment and operating experience in high-volume VCSEL array manufacturing for mobile handsets,” said Dr. Giovanni Barbarossa, Chief Strategy Officer and President, Materials Segment.
  • The company expects to transition the bulk of its production from 3-inch InP to 6-inch InP in the next few years to fully leverage the benefits of larger wafer size, higher yield, and improved performance that will be required to provide a sustainable competitive advantage in its communications and sensing markets.

Coherent Wins ECOC 2023 Award for Most Innovative Product With 200G PAM4 Mach-Zehnder Modulated Semiconductor Laser

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Dienstag, Oktober 3, 2023

This PIC enables 200G per lane in both retimed and linear pluggable 800G and 1.6T transceivers.

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  • This PIC enables 200G per lane in both retimed and linear pluggable 800G and 1.6T transceivers.
  • The 200G PAM4 DFB-MZ was first demonstrated at OFC 2023 in March.
  • Coherent is again showing a live demonstration of the 200G PAM4 DFB-MZ at ECOC 2023, this week in Glasgow, Scotland, Stand #406.
  • This live demonstration showcases the DFB-MZ that transmits a 200G PAM4 signal over a 6 km fiber.

Semtech and Coherent Demonstrate 200G per Lane Differential Driver with 200G DFB-MZ Laser at ECOC 2023

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Montag, Oktober 2, 2023

Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a high-performance semiconductor, IoT systems and cloud connectivity service provider, today announced the demonstration of its latest FiberEdge® 200G PAM4 MZM driver driving the state-of-the-art 200G DFB-MZ laser from Coherent Corp (NYSE: COHR).

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  • Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a high-performance semiconductor, IoT systems and cloud connectivity service provider, today announced the demonstration of its latest FiberEdge® 200G PAM4 MZM driver driving the state-of-the-art 200G DFB-MZ laser from Coherent Corp (NYSE: COHR).
  • “We are very excited to continue our collaboration with Coherent as advanced lasers and optics get developed in the 200G per lane space,” said Nicola Bramante, senior product line manager for Semtech’s Signal Integrity Products Group.
  • “This demonstration confirms once again the interoperability of state-of-the-art 200G lasers with Semtech’s latest 200G per lane FiberEdge developments, ensuring superior linearity and signal integrity in 200G per lane Mach-Zehnder modulator-based applications, both in indium phosphide (InP) and silicon photonics.
  • The joint demonstration at ECOC 2023 will include a differentially driven DFB-MZ InP laser from Coherent and Semtech’s PAM4 driver, demonstrating a clear path toward 1.6T and 3.2T optical transceiver deployments in data centers.

Coherent to Demonstrate Next-Generation Transceiver and Semiconductor Laser Technology for 800G and 1.6T Transmission in AI Networks at ECOC 2023

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Montag, Oktober 2, 2023

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in optical communications components and subsystems, today announced that it will demonstrate next-generation transceivers and laser technology for 800G and 1.6T datacom transmission at ECOC 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland, October 2-4, stand #406. Such advances are critical to sustaining the accelerating growth of the cloud driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).

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  • Such advances are critical to sustaining the accelerating growth of the cloud driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).
  • This live demonstration will showcase an 800G transceiver in an OSFP form factor with four CWDM wavelengths, each operating at 200G PAM4, and an 8x100G PAM4 electrical interface.
  • This technology is expected to form the core of the second generation of 800G transceivers and the first generation of 1.6T transceivers.
  • Coherent works with optical industrial leaders and customers to provide interoperable LPO transceivers for the next generation of AI/ML applications.

Optical Compute: How the New Age of Computation Seems So Close, and Yet Still So Far Away, Reports IDTechEx

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Freitag, April 14, 2023

This law is named after the co-founder of Intel (and recently deceased) Gordon Moore, who posited this doubling in 1965.

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  • This law is named after the co-founder of Intel (and recently deceased) Gordon Moore, who posited this doubling in 1965.
  • An end to Moore's law is not inherently a bad thing or, at least, it wouldn't be if it existed in a vacuum.
  • While this area of silicon photonics is now well-developed, optical compute has been a trickier riddle to solve.
  • IDTechEx's latest report, " Semiconductor Photonic Integrated Circuits 2023-2033 ", answers the major questions, challenges and opportunities faced by photonic integrated circuit technologies.

Optical Compute: How the New Age of Computation Seems So Close, and Yet Still So Far Away, Reports IDTechEx

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Freitag, April 14, 2023

This law is named after the co-founder of Intel (and recently deceased) Gordon Moore, who posited this doubling in 1965.

Key Points: 
  • This law is named after the co-founder of Intel (and recently deceased) Gordon Moore, who posited this doubling in 1965.
  • An end to Moore's law is not inherently a bad thing or, at least, it wouldn't be if it existed in a vacuum.
  • While this area of silicon photonics is now well-developed, optical compute has been a trickier riddle to solve.
  • IDTechEx's latest report, " Semiconductor Photonic Integrated Circuits 2023-2033 ", answers the major questions, challenges and opportunities faced by photonic integrated circuit technologies.

Coherent to Hold Industry-First Live Demonstration of 200G PAM4 Mach-Zehnder Modulated Laser Technology at OFC 2023

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Dienstag, März 7, 2023

PITTSBURGH, March 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in optical communications components and subsystems, today announced that it will hold a live demonstration of its 200G four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) Mach-Zehnder modulated laser technology at OFC 2023 in San Diego, March 7-9, booth #3815.

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  • PITTSBURGH, March 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in optical communications components and subsystems, today announced that it will hold a live demonstration of its 200G four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) Mach-Zehnder modulated laser technology at OFC 2023 in San Diego, March 7-9, booth #3815.
  • This live demonstration will showcase a distributed feedback laser (DFB) and Mach-Zehnder modulator combined monolithically in a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that enables 200G PAM4 for 1.6T transceivers with up to 10 km reach.
  • “This is to our knowledge the industry’s first such laser technology demonstration.
  • It will enable higher-performance longer-reach PAM4 optical links.”
    The differential drive of the DFB-MZ laser achieves superior signal integrity, particularly in higher-density multichannel designs.

MACOM Introduces 128GBaud Products for Coherent Applications

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Dienstag, März 8, 2022

MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (MACOM) today announced availability of its 128 GBaud Transimpedance Amplifiers (TIAs) and Modulator Drivers for coherent optical networking applications.

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  • MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (MACOM) today announced availability of its 128 GBaud Transimpedance Amplifiers (TIAs) and Modulator Drivers for coherent optical networking applications.
  • MACOMs new products support long-haul, metropolitan and Data Center Interconnect (DCI) optical module applications.
  • These devices enable Integrated Coherent Receivers (ICRs), High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulators (HB-CDMs) and Integrated Coherent Transmit-Receive Optical Sub-Assemblies (ICTROSAs) operating from 800 Gbps up to1.6 Tbps in Telecom and DCI applications.
  • MACOM designs and manufactures high-performance semiconductor products for the Telecommunications, Industrial and Defense and Datacenter industries.

Marvell Announces Production Availability of 400G Silicon Photonics Platform for Inside Cloud Data Centers

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Dienstag, März 1, 2022

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced the production availability of its 400G DR4 silicon photonics platform solution for data centers.

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced the production availability of its 400G DR4 silicon photonics platform solution for data centers.
  • The Marvell 400G DR4 platform, based on silicon photonics technology, is helping scale cloud data center architectures to address the accelerating bandwidth requirements of emerging artificial intelligence and machine-learning applications.
  • As part of Marvell's unique electro-optics portfolio, the 400G DR4 silicon photonics platform enables lower cost per bit, faster time to market, and paves the way for higher integration for cloud-optimized electro-optical solutions.
  • "The Marvell 400G DR4 silicon photonics platform offers a compelling cost per bit solution and is aligned with our efforts to deliver innovative, high-quality optical modules in a rapidly evolving global market."

POET Technologies Launches Its Products and Optical Interposer Platform in China to Critical Acclaim

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Mittwoch, September 29, 2021

Notably, Shenzhen Fibertop Technology Co., Ltd., (Fibertop) a transceiver module supplier, committed during the week to incorporate POET Optical Engines in its line of optical modules as soon as production Optical Engines are available.

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  • Notably, Shenzhen Fibertop Technology Co., Ltd., (Fibertop) a transceiver module supplier, committed during the week to incorporate POET Optical Engines in its line of optical modules as soon as production Optical Engines are available.
  • Live demos of six different applications of the POET Optical Interposer encompassing both standard and custom products developed by POET were conducted over five full days (September 14 18) in conjunction with the ICCSZ and CIOE Conferences.
  • The live demos were held in meeting rooms located at both of the conference venues and in POETs lab in Shenzhen, China.
  • Other companies requested samples of our demonstrated products, and several more want to either engage in development contracts that would incorporate POET Optical Engines in their products or have POET incorporate their components into POETs Optical Engines.