News: Optoelectronics
6 October 2025
POET wins ‘Most Innovative’ Award at ECOC 2025
POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada — designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and light sources for the hyperscale data-center, telecom and artificial intelligence (AI) markets — has won for the ‘Most Innovative Chip-scale Packaging/Optical Sub Assembly Product’ at the ECOC Awards.
Chief revenue officer Raju Kankipati accepted the award during ceremonies held at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2025) in Copenhagen, Denmark (29 September–1 October). It is the seventh notable award POET has earned in the past 15 months for its applications that are positioned to serve the demand for more compute power from artificial intelligence developers and datacom hyperscalers.
Picture: POET's Raju Kankipati accepts the ECOC Award from Optica board member Michael Lebby.
“Such recognition builds on the momentum we are seeing from technology experts and our growing customer base,” says executive chairman & CEO Dr Suresh Venkatesan. “Being recognized for having the most innovative chip-scale packaging at a time when the industry is searching for solutions to satisfy AI systems networks and data-center hyperscalers will only result in more interest in POET and our commercial-ready products.”
Launched in 2020, the ECOC Awards honor the “most innovative and influential achievements in optical communications”. The awards highlight “ground-breaking advancements in optical transport, networking, fiber-based products, photonic integrated circuits, and related technologies”.
The firm was recognized for its highly integrated platform technology, the POET Optical Interposer, and its applications that include 200G/lane receive and transmit optical engines. The company’s 1.6T line of optical engines, POET Teralight, was the topic of a Product Focus discussion at the ECOC Exhibition.
POET to demo light source and 1.6T optical engines for AI applications at OFC
