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Latitude Design Systems
Apr 13, 20231 min read
Silicon Photonics Platform Enables Next-Generation Quantum Devices
GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 11, 2023 — Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have greatly improved the...
Latitude Design Systems
Apr 11, 20231 min read
Building an open platform for photonic integrated circuit design
OpenLight, which launched as an independent company in June last year, is developing an open silicon photonics platform with integrated...
Latitude Design Systems
Apr 10, 20231 min read
Integrated Photonic Quantum Sensing Takes Aim at Climate Research
AUSTIN, Texas, March 28, 2023 — A NASA-funded collaboration will focus on advancing quantum sensing technology to enable new...
Latitude Design Systems
Apr 5, 20231 min read
Enabling a 100ZR Ecosystem
Given the success of 400ZR pluggable coherent solutions in the market, discussions in the telecom sector about a future beyond 400G...
Latitude Design Systems
Apr 3, 20231 min read
OpenLight’s CEO Adam Carter intros their PDK Sampler
In the following dialogue, Adam Carter chats about OpenLight’s new process design kit (PDK) - a tool to help accelerate designing...
Latitude Design Systems
Mar 28, 20231 min read
Tower Announces First Heterogeneous Integration of QD Lasers on SiPho Foundry Platform
Specialty analog foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd of Migdal Haemek, Israel, in collaboration with Quintessent Inc of Santa Barbara, CA,...
Latitude Design Systems
Mar 27, 20231 min read
Researchers Develop Silicon Photonic MEMS compatible with Semiconductor Manufacturing
A team of researchers led by the University of Sydney’s Associate Professor Niels Quack has developed a new technology to combine optics...
Latitude Design Systems
Mar 27, 20231 min read
iPronics Commercializes Easily Programmable Photonic Processors
The Spanish company has created programmable photonic chips for wireless signal processing, data centers, machine learning, and other...
Latitude Design Systems
Mar 22, 20231 min read
Optical switching at record speeds opens door for ultrafast, light-based electronics and computers
Imagine a home computer operating 1 million times faster than the most expensive hardware on the market. Now imagine that level of...
Latitude Design Systems
Mar 20, 20231 min read
Silicon photonics: Is it witchcraft?
It’s no secret silicon photonics faces wide-ranging challenges, including hybrid integration, finding new materials with added...
Latitude Design Systems
Mar 20, 20231 min read
Optical I/O Technology Needed for Zettascale, Say Top Chipmakers
Optical I/O is being singled out by top companies to push computing beyond exascale and into zettascale. The technology was singled out...
Latitude Design Systems
Mar 16, 20231 min read
Coherent Optics In Space
When it started, the space race was a competition between two superpowers, but now there are 90 countries with missions in space. The...
Latitude Design Systems
Mar 13, 20231 min read
Commercialization Accelerates for POET Technologies’ Platform Technology
POET Technologies has spent five years striving to deliver a game-changing platform technology to the market. Now, the POET Optical...
Latitude Design Systems
Mar 13, 20231 min read
February 2023 Photonics Technology Roundup
Electro Optics examines some of the latest photonics technologies to hit the market this month: Imec integrates high-quality SiN...
Latitude Design Systems
Mar 6, 20231 min read
Supermode Optical Resonator Moves Beyond Conventional Cavities
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 21, 2023 — Researchers in the lab of Federico Capasso at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied...
Latitude Design Systems
Feb 26, 20231 min read
iPronics: Making Photonics Viable with Programmable Chips
Spanish photonics pioneer iPronics Programmable Photonics is making photonic computing and telecommunications applications commercially...
Latitude Design Systems
Feb 22, 20231 min read
New Hardware Paradigms Needed to Run AI
Regardless of the accuracy of the dollar amounts, there is an urgent need for new hardware paradigms to run AI (Generative AI, self...
Latitude Design Systems
Feb 6, 20234 min read
A High-Speed, Energy-Efficient Coherent Optical Receiver IC in 5nm CMOS
Introduction The ever-increasing demand for higher data rates in optical communications has driven the evolution of coherent detection...
Latitude Design Systems
Jun 24, 20221 min read
What is an Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA)?
An Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) is a device that amplifies weak input optical signals without converting them into electrical...
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