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Photonic Processor Boosts Multifunctionality for Next-Gen Networks and AI
VALENCIA, Spain, May 6, 2024 — A team from the Photonics Research Laboratory (PRL)-iTEAM of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the company iPRONICS have developed a multifunctional, programmable photonic processor for applications in the telecommunications sector, data centers and infrastructure for AI computing systems. The device leverages properties found in photonic systems such as high bandwidth and speed, while working synergistically with electronic processors. Ultrahigh speed 5G and
Photonic Chip Enables 160 TOPS/W Artificial General Intelligence
BEIJING, April 22, 2024 — Researchers from Tsinghua University have reported the development of a photonic AI chiplet called “Taichi” which empowers 160 TOPS/W artificial general intelligence. Developments in the field of artificial general intelligence (AGI)...
PhotonDelta and MIT Update Roadmap for Integrated Photonics Progress
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, March 26, 2024 — An updated roadmap developed by PhotonDelta and MIT’s Microphotonics Center envelopes insights from more than 400 organizations to provide a clear path forward for the global integrated photonics industry. The roadmap was launched today during the...
Has Silicon Photonics Finally Found Its Killer Application?
Mar 5, 2024 — During the last decade, the exponential growth of data center traffic has been largely fueled by general-purpose cloud- and internet-based applications, such as video streaming, social networks, internet search engines, and e-commerce platforms....
Scintil, Tower Semiconductor Poised to Boost PIC Production
GRENOBLE, France, Feb. 29, 2024 — Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) supplier Scintil Photonics has integrated III-V distributed feedback (DFB) lasers and amplifiers with standard silicon photonics technology in production at Tower Semiconductor. The integration technology grants...
Integration Method Efficiently Couples III-V with Silicon
HONG KONG, Feb. 26, 2024 — In the past decades, data traffic has grown exponentially driven by emerging technologies. The field of integrated circuits has enabled that growth, making electronic devices smaller and faster. But the start of the Zettabyte Era in 2016 has pushed...
$20M Grant Funds Portable Eye-Scanning Tech
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 19, 2024 — The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded $20 million to develop a portable OCT system that could offer advanced eye screenings to many more patients at lower costs. The technology could also be used in other...
Team Develops Laser Printer for PICs
SEATTLE, Feb. 12, 2024 — The development of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is an expensive and time-consuming process. Nanofabrication facilities cost millions of dollars to construct and are well beyond the reach of many colleges, universities, and research labs. For...
SMART Photonics Doubles Production Capacity
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Jan. 31, 2024 — SMART Photonics, a foundry for photonic integrated circuits, has scaled up its production of photonic chips by transferring its entire production capability from 3-inch 4-inch wafer substrates. According to the company, SMART Photonics is among the...
Enlightra, DESY Hamburg Develop Improved, Scalable Comb Lasers
RENENS, Switzerland, Jan. 25, 2024 — Laser technology startup Enlightra has collaborated with DESY Hamburg to develop comb lasers that are more stable and efficient by design. The work demonstrated microresonators with programmable synthetic reflection providing tailored injection...
Team Deepens Understanding of IC-PIC Integration's Thermal Penalty
LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium, Dec. 21, 2023 — Co-packaged optics for high performance computing and other data center applications require dense integration of silicon PICs with electronic integrated circuits (EICs). Stacking an electronic chip on top of a photonic chip allows for a tight...
Optical Computing Leader Lightmatter Adds $155M in Funding
BOSTON, Dec. 20, 2023 — Photonic chip developer Lightmatter raised $155 million in a series C-2 funding round led by Google Ventures and Viking Global Investors. The company intends to use the financing to expand its workforce and office footprint, as well as to increase...
Neurophos Raises $7.2M in Seed Round
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 15, 2023 — Neurophos, a spinout of Duke University and Metacept Inc. and incubator focused on creating metamaterials-based companies, raised $7.2 million in seed round funding to commercialize metamaterial and optical AI inference chips targeting data center...
CEOs Call for $4.6 billion to Bolster Europe’s PIC Supply Chain
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Nov. 15, 2023 — Leaders from eight of Europe’s largest integrated photonics companies have presented plans to the European Commission to build a resilient European supply chain for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The plan, presented to Thomas Skordas,...
Modified Photodiode Enables Multifunctional, High-Performance PICs
CHENGDU, China, Oct. 19, 2023 — Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) shows strong potential as a platform for integrated photonics, due to its robust electro-optic coefficient, large optical nonlinearity, and wide transparency window. TFLN is used in the development of various...
Electro-Optic Modulators Improve Signal Quality and Cancel Noise
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 12, 2023 — Delays in optical data transmission cause inconvenient lag times in communications and interfere with immersive experiences like gaming. Two factors that adversely affect the speed and reliability of optical communication are signal distortion over...
Telecom Leader Vodafone Partners with Silicon Photonics Companies
MÁLAGA, Spain, Sept. 25, 2023 — In a push to develop and deploy silicon photonics technology, telecommunications leader Vodafone detailed plans to expand its workforce and announced partnerships with European photonic chip developers iPronics and Salience Labs. Vodafone seeks to...
Spectrometer Aims to Further Refine Lithography
ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, Sept. 19, 2023 — To improve the quality of microchips and make the chipmaking process more efficient, researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology developed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) broadband imaging spectrometer. The new...
Imec Spinout Axithra Raises $10M for Chip-based Raman Tech
LEUVEN, Belgium, Sept. 7, 2023 — Axithra, a spinout of imec and Ghent University, has raised €10 million ($10.7 million) in a seed round to develop a chip-based Raman spectroscopy platform to monitor drug concentration in the blood. The seed round, which saw backing from...
Five Common Design Mistakes Can Send PIC Packaging Costs Skyrocketing
Sep 1, 2023 — We have all heard that photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can pack a ton of functionality into high-performance, energy-efficient, and low-cost microchips, as well as the promise that they will enable a revolution of powerful optoelectronic devices...
Viewpointsystem, Printoptix Receive €2.5M: Week in Brief: 08/25/23
WALTHAM, Mass. — Thermo Fisher Scientific completed the acquisition of CorEvitas LLC, a provider of regulatory-grade, real-world evidence for approved medical treatments and therapies, for $912.5 million in cash. CorEvitas will become part of Thermo Fisher’s...
Dutch Foundry SMART Photonics Secures $111M in Financing
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, July 13, 2023 — SMART Photonics, a foundry for photonic integrated circuits (PIC), has secured an additional round of funding of €100 million ($111 million) from a group of Dutch industry and finance investors. The scale-up company, which started as a spinoff...
Coherent Names Deputy CTO, Appoints VP: People in the News: 07/12/23
PITTSBURGH, July 12, 2023 — Coherent Corp. named Young-Kai Chen deputy chief technology officer, and appointed Paul Silverstein vice president for investor relations and corporate communications. Chen previously served as chief scientist in Coherent’s New Ventures and...
Photonic Chip Drives Scalable Data Transfer
NEW YORK, July 11, 2023 — Systems that run artificial intelligence programs, such as large language models, face a “bandwidth bottleneck” that can limit the amount of data they transfer between nodes. Using light to send information between the nodes of data...
Photonic Chip Transforms Single Light Beam into Multiple
GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 6, 2023 — Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a photonic circuit on a chip that transforms a single incoming beam of laser light into a panoply of new beams, each with a host of different optical properties....
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