POET Technologies Creates Platform for 1.6T Transceivers Using 200G per lane Technology
August 15 2023 - 7:00AM
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.
- Adaptations to support the
integration of conventional surface mount device (SMD) components,
which improve RF performance that is crucial at such high
speeds.
- New, proprietary demux
architectures and assembly techniques to allow passive, wafer-level
assembly of the next generation of high-speed photodiodes.
- 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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