Rafik Ward, Chief Strategy Officer & CMO at Lumentum, provides insights on the evolving co-packaged optics (CPO) landscape from the Photonic Enabled Cloud Computing (PECC) Summit by Optica + Advanced Photonics Coalition at the Juniper Networks Aspiration Dome in Silicon Valley. Ward discusses the industry’s renewed momentum around CPO technology and highlights significant validation data, including Meta’s presentation of 15 million device hours of CPO operation. He reveals Lumentum’s breakthrough ultra-high power laser solution specifically designed for CPO applications, leveraging the company’s decades of expertise in pump laser manufacturing for telecommunications. Ward explains how this 1310 nanometer, 400-milliwatt laser addresses critical CPO architecture challenges and integrates into ELSFP modules for next-generation optical networks.
– Current state of CPO industry traction and market validation
– Key data points from major hyperscale deployments
– Technical specifications of Lumentum’s ultra-high power CPO laser
– How heritage pump laser technology translates to CPO applications
– Critical CPO architecture challenges and power distribution solutions
– Integration approaches for high-power lasers in CPO modules
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