POET announces new 800G transceiver for AI networks

TORONTO and SAN DIEGO — POET Technologies Inc., the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center, telecommunication and AI markets, announced its first entry into the optical module market for artificial intelligence and cloud data center markets with an 800G pluggable transceiver. The Wavelight™ is an 800G 2xFR4 OSFP module that incorporates the Company’s POET Optical Interposer™ technology and related optical engine products.

Wavelight is the Company’s first POET-branded module and its initial entry into the pluggable optical module market, representing a milestone in its commercialization roadmap.

“The move to offer modules to end-users was a strategic imperative for the Company and the next logical step in our development of the POET Optical Interposer and the Optical Interposer-based leading-edge optical engines that we have produced over the past two years,” noted Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, the Company’s Chairman & CEO. “We are now able to showcase our technology to major end-users during a period of high demand for 800G transceivers, driven primarily by AI, and we are confident that it will lead to direct sales by POET to customers.” Dr. Venkatesan added, “This is the most significant commercial milestone that our Company has reached since its founding.”

Wavelight has 8 lanes of electrical input and output channels operating at 106.25Gbps per channel. It consists of two 400G silicon photonics transmitters and one integrated 800G receiver, operating on four ITU-defined CWDM wavelengths. The transceiver is designed for use in 800 gigabit ethernet links for up to 2km of reach over single mode fiber.

The Wavelight product line is complementary to POET’s optical engine sales. POET is committed to continue its optical engine sales both directly and through its joint venture, Super Photonics Xiamen (SPX), and serve pluggable transceiver customers for 100Gbps to 800Gbps speeds.