
🎡 OFC 2026 News Rodeo: AI Infrastructure Drives Record Week of Optical Innovation
OFC 2026 drew nearly 18,000 attendees from 91 countries to the Los Angeles Convention Center, marking one of the largest and most commercially significant…
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OFC 2026 drew nearly 18,000 attendees from 91 countries to the Los Angeles Convention Center, marking one of the largest and most commercially significant…

Tower Semiconductor and Coherent reported a 400Gbps-per-lane data transmission demonstration using a silicon-based Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) fabricated in a production-ready silicon photonics (SiPho) process.…

HyperLight introduced a new family of 400G-per-lane photonic integrated circuits based on thin-film lithium niobate, targeting the next wave of AI networking infrastructure. The…

Teradyne introduced its Photon 100 platform, a new opto-electric automated test system aimed at high-volume manufacturing for silicon photonics and co-packaged optics. Announced on…

Lightmatter introduced its Passage L20 optical engine, targeting high-density optical interconnects for AI data centers as bandwidth requirements push beyond the limits of electrical…

Marvell introduced the Structera S 60260, which it says is the industry’s first 260-lane PCIe 6.0 switch, aimed at AI data center scale-up infrastructure.…

Semtech said it is showcasing live demonstrations at OFC 2026 spanning 224G and 448G solutions for AI and data center interconnect applications, including live…

LightSpeed Photonics is unveiling a new near-packaged optical interconnect architecture designed to simplify the integration of optical connectivity within AI systems. The company describes…

Lightmatter introduced its Passage L20 optical engine, targeting high-density optical interconnects for AI data centers as bandwidth requirements push beyond the limits of electrical…

A new Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) focused on multicore fiber (MCF) has emerged as hyperscale operators push toward higher fiber density and more efficient scale-out…

The Advanced Photonics Coalition (APC) reported membership growth to more than 50 companies, adding 10 new organizations in 2026 as the industry accelerates efforts…

Richard Ho, Head of Hardware at OpenAI, opened his keynote at the Optica Executive Forum in Los Angeles with a clear message: the future…

At the Optica Executive Forum in Los Angeles, Meta’s Drew Alduino laid out the sheer scale and complexity of building AI infrastructure at hyperscale,…