Optical

Lightmatter introduced vClick Optics, a detachable fiber array unit for co-packaged optics that targets one of the toughest manufacturing problems in advanced AI packages: how to connect fiber to photonic...

Coherent announced enhancements to its multi-rail optical transport platform designed to support the growing bandwidth demands of AI-driven networks. The update combines the company’s compact multi-rail architecture with its Datacenter...

Avicena unveiled the LightBundle™ eKit, an evaluation platform designed to demonstrate microLED-based optical connectivity for next-generation AI infrastructure. The platform integrates ASIC-based transceivers with embedded LEDs, photodetectors, and micro-lens arrays...

Austin-based La Luce Cristallina announced the beta availability of a 200-mm (8-inch) barium titanate (BaTiO₃) wafer platform designed for next-generation electro-optic modulators used in telecommunications and data communications systems. The...

Lightmatter introduced the Passage L20 optical engine, a 6.4 Tbps (per direction) photonic module designed to accelerate deployment of high-bandwidth optical interconnects for next-generation AI data centers. The new platform...

Broadcom introduced the Taurus BCM83640, the industry’s first optical DSP supporting 400Gbps per lane PAM4 signaling, targeting next-generation AI data center interconnects. Fabricated on a 3nm process, the new DSP...

Lightmatter announced the successful sampling of its Passage™ co-packaged optics (CPO) chiplet, demonstrating a record 1.6 Tbps throughput per fiber for AI interconnects. The result combines Lightmatter’s photonic engine with...

Ayar Labs announced a partnership with Wiwynn to integrate optical I/O technology into rack-scale AI infrastructure platforms. The companies said the collaboration will combine Ayar Labs’ silicon photonics-based optical interconnect...

Eridu, a Saratoga, California–based startup focused on next-generation AI networking infrastructure, emerged from stealth with more than $200 million in funding to develop a new class of high-performance switching architecture...

Adtran unveiled its LiteWave800 800Gbit/s DR8 linear pluggable optics (LPO) module, targeting the growing power and thermal constraints of AI data center fabrics. The new module is designed for short-reach...

Salience Labs unveiled a 32-port all-optical silicon photonic switch designed to improve performance and efficiency in AI data center networks. The Oxford-based company said the device represents the first commercial...

Ciena outlined a broad set of demonstrations and speaking sessions for the upcoming OFC 2026 in Los Angeles, highlighting technologies aimed at scaling optical and electrical networks for AI-driven data...

Go!Foton introduced enhancements to its EKO optical sensing platform designed to provide continuous monitoring of fiber connectivity and optical signal levels across telecom and data center networks. Demonstrated at OFC...