POET Readies Optical Interposer for Production in Alignment with Product Roadmap
29 Oktober 2020 - 1:00PM
POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK;
OTCQX: POETF) a leading designer of Photonic Integrated Circuits
(PICs) for the data center and tele-communication markets,
announced today that it has added several new features to its
proprietary POET Optical Interposer™ platform and completed the
design for products identified on its roadmap.
New Optical Interposer features include:
- waveguide designs and process
integration methods that minimize reflections of laser light within
the Optical Interposer platform;
- fiducials that better enable the
sub-micron accuracy of automated pick-and-place assembly of lasers
and other components mechanically placed on the platform;
- vertical mirrors that extend the
platform applicability to top- and bottom-surface-access optical
devices, such as top-entry photodetectors and vertical cavity
surface emitting lasers (VCSELs);
- improved spot-size converters that
provide efficient coupling of lasers and modulators to waveguides
(important for 400G and 800G optical engines);
- the latest generation of low-loss
Mach-Zehnder Interferometry (“MZI”)-based multiplexers embedded in
the waveguides; and
- newly developed IP to efficiently
align fiber-attach-units (FAUs) to POET’s optical engines.
“We have determined that the Optical Interposer
platform is now production-ready,” said Vivek Rajgarhia, POET’s
President & General Manager. “We have proven out all of the
features and production methods for the platform itself, including
the flip-chip assembly and bonding steps for lasers, which has
historically been the “Achilles’ Heel” for other approaches to
optoelectronic integration. The basic platform features, now
completed, apply to all of the products that we are engaged with
customers to develop. The pre-Alpha and Alpha prototypes that are
now being assembled differ primarily in the particular components
included, and in most cases, those designs have been
validated.”
Mr. Rajgarhia continued: “The POET Optical
Interposer platform is fully compatible with standard CMOS
semiconductor processing methods and equipment. It seamlessly
incorporates the best features of a Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC),
Silicon Optical Benches (SiOB) and Interposer functionality and is
fabricated solely within the production limits of silicon-based
semiconductor processing. In addition to being fundamental to
lower-cost and the higher-performance value proposition of the
Optical Interposer, the processing compatibility with CMOS opens up
a variety of applications to POET that are simply not available
using other integration approaches seen in the market today.”
POET’s product roadmap, presented in its Annual
General Meeting of Shareholders conducted in late August, revealed
four products under development, each associated with an individual
customer or potential groups of customers. The Company reported
that the 100/200G CWDM4 Optical Engine, the 400G LightBar™, 400G
FR4 Receiver, and the 400G FR4/DR Optical Engines all remain on
schedule.
About POET Technologies
Inc.POET Technologies is a design and development company
offering integration solutions based on the POET Optical
Interposer™ a novel platform that allows the seamless integration
of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module
using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques
and packaging methods. POET’s Optical Interposer eliminates costly
components and labor-intensive assembly, alignment, burn-in and
testing methods employed in conventional photonics. The
cost-efficient integration scheme and scalability of the POET
Optical Interposer brings value to any device or system that
integrates electronics and photonics, including some of the highest
growth areas of computing, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI),
the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles and high-speed
networking for cloud service providers and data centers. POET is
headquartered in Toronto, with operations in Allentown, PA and
Singapore. More information may be obtained at
www.poet-technologies.com.
Shareholder Contact for
POET:Shelton GroupBrett L.
Perrysheltonir@sheltongroup.com |
Company Contact for
POET:Thomas R. Mika, EVP &
CFOtm@poet-technologies.com |
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