OPTICA Meeting 24-25 October
Like to highlight some of the interesting aspects of this meeting for our gem Lightwave Logic.
The Optica meeting is one of the most anticipated photonics meetings of this year in Silicon Valley, bringing together many important company decision-makers who will shape the near future of photonic-enabled cloud computing ( Jose Pozo- Optica)
It puts innovative and new disruptive material companies like Lightwave and incumbent chip material companies ( e.g. DuPont, Corning and SABIC/ARAMCO) in the room together with incumbent chip companies ( Intel, NVIDIA, Broadcom) and old and new innovative companies for fast and efficient chip to chip interconnects, process chips to memory chips ( e.g Avicena) and device and system vendors ( Cisco,Dell,Arista) large foundries ( Global Foundries, Intel, Advanced Micro Foundry) whilst the most demanding data center and cloud customers ( Google, Meta) are watching and putting the photonics supply chain through its biggest stress test of success ( dixit Optica). Google and Meta’s requirements on speed, simplicity, cost, bandwidth and power efficiency, latency etc. are well defined and more urgent than ever given the data explosion through AI and now generative AI.
These internet giants are present and see what’s available for the years to come.
All current material configurations are present; silicon photonics, silicon nitride, Indium Phosphide and there is just one challenging new material Lightwave’s polymers ( if we discount glass substrates from Corning) present being able to check every box of their requirements as long as the industry up steam see the ‘ LIGHT’. The photonics start up community is not present, this is clearly a meeting where the big industry giants set the standards for the future and where only selected and promising prospects are invited.
