News: Optoelectronics
12 October 2023
POET collaborates with Yuanjie for laser supply as optical engines enter volume production
POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada — designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and light sources for the data-center, telecom and artificial intelligence (AI) markets — is enabling its joint venture Super Photonics Xiamen (SPX) to ramp optical engines to high-volume production by utilizing the high-speed indium phosphide (InP) lasers of Yuanjie Semiconductor Technology Inc (YST), which was founded on 28 January.
“As we start ramping production of our optical engines, securing an additional reliable laser source that is well established in the industry with known good quality is of utmost importance to our business,” says POET’s chairman & CEO Dr Suresh Venkatesan. “Our partnership with YST has enabled POET and SPX to deliver reliable, high-performance optical engines to customers. SPX will start production of 100G CWDM4, POET ONE (a 100G single-chip TxRx engine), 100G LR4 and 200G FR4 optical engines using YST’s directly modulated lasers (DMLs) this month and we expect to extend the collaboration to other products in the future,” he adds.
“Our superior quality lasers and reputation for reliability will complement POET’s Optical Interposer technology, which offers a unique and highly adaptable platform to module makers,” comments YST’s CEO & chairman Peter Zhang. “We will continue to collaborate with POET on high-speed optical engines while supporting SPX to ramp current products to high-volume production.”
POET, SPX and YST will initially collaborate on 100G CWDM4, POET ONE, 100G LR4 and 200G FR4 transmitter products. All the design verifications and reliability testing of the optical engines is complete and all will be released to production during October. Current module customers for these products include ADVA, Beijing FeiYunYi (BFYY) and Fibertop, along with others whose names have not yet been disclosed.
POET receives first volume purchase order for optical engines
