Silicon photonics-based chip-to-chip optical connectivity firm Ayar Labs of Santa Clara, CA, USA has announced public demonstration of what it says is the industry’s first 4 terabit-per-second (Tbps) bidirectional wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical solution at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2023) in San Diego (5–9 March). The firm adds that it is currently working with high-volume manufacturing and supply partners including GlobalFoundries, Lumentum, Macom, Sivers Photonics and others to deliver the optical interconnects needed for data-intensive applications. Also at OFC, partner Quantifi Photonics is launching a CW-WDM-compliant test platform that integrates Ayar’s SuperNova light source...
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