POET Technologies creates a platform for transceivers using 200G per lane technology
by CM Staff
The newly-designed Optical Interposer architecture reportedly enables seamless wafer-scale passive assembly of externally modulated lasers from multiple suppliers.
TORONTO — POET Technologies Inc., the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center, telecommunication and artificial intelligence markets, announced its development of an optical interposer platform for 1.6T transceivers and beyond using 200G per lane technology for 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 newly-designed Optical Interposer architecture reportedly enables seamless wafer-scale passive assembly of externally modulated lasers from multiple suppliers, providing maximum flexibility for customer requirements.
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.
