Photonics - General Science

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Rick, Ayar Labs is in San Francisco along with Dr Lebby

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Six full-time employees and three consulting professors, who are co-founders, and two part-time PhD interns staff Ayar Labs, located south of Market Street in downtown San Francisco.

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Building upon that research, Ayar is developing its first commercial product, a transceiver that places both the optical diodes and the attendant electrical circuitry on the same silicon die. Optical components such as a photodetector are usually coupled to a separate chip with a photodetector driver circuit. In the Ayar chip, these two can be combined on one single silicon die.

Alex Wright-Gladstein, a third co-founder, and CEO of the company, explains to me that unlike Acacia, which makes 100-gig and 400-gig transceivers, mostly serving a long-haul market, Ayar aims to be in data center switches, serving distances of 2 kilometers or shorter. The company in May received a $2.5 million round of seed funding, from FF Science, part of Founders Fund, and TechU Angels.

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/09/15/ayar/

Rick, do you think Ayar Labs is a possible partner for us?