Replies to post #87575 on Lightwave Logic Inc (LWLG)

[oddone33320]

Wow, interesting indeed Steve! Seems like something we'd want to be involved with if we aren't.



"The new platform co-integrates III-V lasers, semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA), electro-absorption modulators (EAM) and photodetectors with silicon photonics devices, all monolithically on a single chip. This enables smaller, higher-channel count and more power-efficient optical architectures and solutions. Foundry availability will enable a broad array of product developers to create highly integrated photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for diverse markets.

Process design kits (PDK) are expected to be available by year end and the first open multi-project wafer (MPW) run are expected to be offered early next year. First samples of full 400Gb/s and 800Gb/s PICs reference designs with integrated laser are expected to be available in the second quarter of 2022.
“Our mutual development work with Tower has been extraordinarily successful in qualifying this innovative silicon photonics technology in a high-volume manufacturing facility,” said Rami Rahim, CEO of Juniper Networks. “By offering this capability to the entire industry, Juniper offers the potential to radically reduce the cost of optics while lowering the barrier to entry for customers”."

[Pickle Power]

Steve, great find. Juniper is all-in on silicon photonics. LWLG solves these problems.

https://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/nxtwork/silicon-photonics.pdf

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/juniper-networks-to-acquire-silicon-photonics-firm-aurrion/

Juniper founder Pradeep Sindhu said in a blog post: “Over the past almost two decades, Juniper has dramatically reduced the cost per bit-per-second of the electronics portion of networking systems. Unfortunately, the optoelectronics portion—the one that converts electricity to light and vice-versa—has not followed a similar cost curve.

“Historically, the optoelectronic portion represented significantly less than half the cost of a networking system, especially for optoelectronics designed for short to medium distances. If we fast forward to today, we see that things have completely reversed: the optoelectronics portion now represents significantly more than half the cost.

“And here’s the real problem—the explosive growth of video streaming, social networking and other bandwidth intensive applications such as data center to data center traffic means that there is no letup in the hunger for greater bandwidth at ever decreasing cost and ever increasing flexibility.”

[StevenDice]

Per the Article:

The new platform co-integrates III-V lasers, semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA), electro-absorption modulators (EAM) and photodetectors with silicon photonics devices, all monolithically on a single chip.

I had not been familiar with an EAM.

From Wikipedia:
Compared with an Electro-optic modulator (EOM), an EAM can operate with much lower voltages (a few volts instead of ten volts or more). They can be operated at very high speed; a modulation bandwidth of tens of gigahertz can be achieved, which makes these devices useful for optical fiber communication.

Anybody anything about this?