POET Technologies introduces 800G & 1.6T optical engines
by CM Staff
The company's DML technology is designed to enable high volume transceiver deployments at every generation of speeds in hyperscale data centres.
TORONTO — POET Technologies Inc. and Photonic Integrated Circuits have announced plans to use directly modulated lasers with integrated drivers in POET’s transmit optical engines and high-speed photodiodes.
The company says it will also use them in the integrated transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) and in receive optical engines, to enable low power, cost-efficient and highly scalable 800G and 1.6T pluggable transceivers for hyperscale data centres.
The company says its technology uses a small size and chip-on-board design to allow 800G and 1.6T designs to fit in an industry-standard 1.6T OSFP-XD form factor. DML technology is also designed to enable high volume transceiver deployments at every generation of speeds in hyperscale data centres.
The 100G PAM4 DML passively integrated on the POET optical engine reportedly addresses current 400G solutions at mass volume, and it enables future intra-data centre interconnects.
“Extending pluggables to these speeds with industry-standard form factors was previously thought to be impossible, but because of the small size and extent of integration of devices in our optical engines, data centre customers will have more flexibility in network design than ever before,” said Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, chairman & CEO of POET in a statement.
