Toronto,
Ontario, Canada -- August 15, 2023 -- InvestorsHub NewsWire
-- POET Technologies
Inc. ("POET" or
the "Company")
(TSXV:
PTK;
NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical
Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data
center, telecommunication and artificial intelligence markets,
today announced its development of an optical
interposer platform for 1.6T transceivers and beyond using 200G per
lane technology for next generation data center and AI
networks.
Migrating from 100G per lane to 200G per lane
doubles the bandwidth with the same face plate density as 100G per
lane, lowers the overall system power consumption and reduces the
solution cost. Cloud and other service providers can continue to
reap the benefits of pluggable transceivers in their networks and
deploy pluggable solutions at bandwidths of 1.6T (and beyond) with
200G per lane technology utilizing POET's enhanced
interposer-powered optical engines.
"Moving to 200Gbps per lane is a critical
step for the industry to sustain the bandwidth demands of the cloud
and AI networks," said Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, Chairman & CEO of
POET. "An integration platform like the POET Optical
Interposer™
is an absolute requirement at such high
speeds to connect optical and electrical components and at the same
time meet performance and power requirements. We have augmented the
Optical Interposer platform in several important ways to extract
the native bandwidth of components without inducing the losses and
interferences that are common in other integration
schemes. We are working
with several industry leaders and integrating their high bandwidth
components on our platform to demonstrate 200G
performance."
Enhancements to the Optical Interposer now
support 200Gbps per lane speed for both the transmitter and the
receiver. The transmit optical engine has been modified for
externally modulated lasers (EML), EML drivers and monolithically
integrated multiplexers for single mode fiber applications for up
to 10km reach. The receive optical engine can now incorporate the
next generation higher speed photodiodes, trans-impedance
amplifiers and monolithically integrated low-loss
polarization-insensitive demultiplexers for 1.6T transceivers and
beyond.
The newly-designed Optical Interposer
architecture enables seamless wafer-scale passive assembly of
externally modulated lasers from multiple suppliers, providing
maximum flexibility for customer requirements. Among the new
features of the Optical Interposer, the most important
include:
-
Novel transmission
line designs to supply low-loss, high-speed electrical
interconnects with bandwidth greater than 75GHz, a requirement of
next generation of high-speed lasers and drivers.
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Adaptations to support the
integration of conventional surface mount device (SMD) components,
which improve RF performance that is crucial at such high
speeds.
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New, proprietary demux
architectures and assembly techniques to allow passive, wafer-level
assembly of the next generation of high-speed
photodiodes.
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Through-Silicon-Vias
(TSVs) on the Optical Interposer platform for integration of
high-speed electrical and optical components while eliminating wire
bonds – one of the primary sources of signal noise and interference
in transceivers.
The overall effect of these improvements to
the Optical Interposer platform is to achieve superior performance
in a power-optimized solution at 200G per lane that can be included
in 1.6T pluggable transceivers. The small form factor of POET
Optical Engines makes the solution scalable to 3.2T pluggable
transceivers in current industry standard form factors.
POET expects to complete the design of 1.6T
Transmit and Receive optical engines with 200Gbps per lane
technology based on the new generation of Optical Interposer
designs by early 2024. It plans to demonstrate these products at
major tradeshows and start customer sampling by first half of
2024.
Additional information about POET's
developments in 200G per lane 1.6T optical engines will be featured
at the ECOC'23 conference on Monday, October 2, 2023 in Glasgow,
Scotland where POET's Senior Vice President, Raju Kankipati, will
discuss the "Semiconductorization of
Photonics using Silicon Optical
Interposers".
About POET
Technologies Inc.
POET Technologies
is a design and development company offering integration solutions
based on the POET Optical Interposer™ a novel platform that allows
the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a
single chip using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing
techniques and packaging methods. POET's Optical
Interposer eliminates costly components and labor-intensive
assembly, alignment, and testing methods employed in conventional
photonics. The cost-efficient integration scheme and scalability of
the POET Optical Interposer brings value to any device or system
that integrates electronics and photonics, including some of the
highest growth areas of computing, such as Artificial Intelligence
(AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles and
high-speed networking for cloud service providers and data centers.
POET is headquartered in Toronto, with operations in Allentown, PA,
Shenzhen, China and
Singapore. More information may be obtained at
www.poet-technologies.com.
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