Optical

DustPhotonics introduced two new additions to its silicon photonics portfolio—Tamar200 and Tamar. These Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) support 2xFR4 optical modules and are designed for high-performance, power-efficient operation across 1.6T and 800G...

POET Technologies has announced a partnership with South Korea-based Lessengers to co-develop a next-generation 800G DR8 optical transceiver targeted at AI and hyperscale data center applications. The solution will integrate...

Lessengers unveiled a 1.6T OSFP 2×SR4 multimode optical transceiver at OFC 2025, designed to meet the escalating bandwidth and energy demands of hyperscale AI/ML data centers. The new transceiver supports...

by James E. Carroll San Francisco, March 31, 2025 — At the Optica Executive Forum during OFC 2025, an all-star panel of infrastructure leaders from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Meta, and Arista Networks...

San Francisco – April 1, 2025- As AI clusters balloon toward the million-GPU mark, the optical and electrical interconnect industry faces immense pressure to keep up with surging bandwidth, power,...

Ciena, HyperLight, and McGill University have achieved the industry’s first 3.2Tbps O-band IMDD transmission using eight 448Gbps lanes over a 2km distance—setting a new benchmark for intra-data center connectivity. The...

Marvell is advancing short-reach interconnects for AI infrastructure with the launch of its 1.6T and 800G Alaska® A PAM4 DSPs for Active Electrical Cables (AECs), showcased at OFC 2025 in...

Semtech introduced 200G per channel PMD (Physical Medium Dependent) ICs for 1.6T modules and developing 400G per channel solutions for upcoming 3.2T connectivity. These advancements respond to the growing demand...

At OFC 2025, members of the Open ROADM Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) demonstrated the first multi-vendor 800G pluggable ROADM link and a fully interoperable optical transport network reaching data rates up...

Eoptolink Technology is showcasing its 1.6T Linear Receive Optics (LRO) transceiver at OFC 2025, marking a step forward in power-efficient optical module design. The transceiver operates at 212Gbps per lambda...

San Francisco, March 31, 2025 — In a keynote at the Optica Executive Forum, Amin Vahdat, VP and Fellow at Google, delivered an urgent message for this week’s OFC 2025...

At the 2025 Optica Executive Forum in San Francisco, industry leaders from MACOM, Marvell, Broadcom, and Astera Labs gathered to tackle one of the defining challenges of next-generation data centers:...

Marvell Technology has unveiled a 1.6T silicon photonics light engine designed for low-power, rack-scale optical interconnects in AI networks. Demonstrated at OFC 2025 in a 1.6T OSFP linear pluggable optics...