Hengtong Rockley demos 800G QSFP-DD800 DR8 pluggable

Hengtong Rockley Technology Co. announced an 800G QSFP-DD800 DR8 optical module based on EML technology.There are two main form factors for 800G MSA: OSFP and QSFP-DD800. Because of the tight space, QSFP-DD800 module design has been considered as the most challenging, in term of layout, signal integrity and thermal management. Hengtong Rockley is adapting 7nm DSP with built-in drivers, and COB structure to achieve this 800G QSFP-DD800 DR8 design,...

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Furukawa develops light sources for SUPER C-band and SUPER L-band

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. announced new laser light source products for SUPER C-band and SUPER L-band optical transmission, including a new wide tuning range micro-ITLA (Integrable Tunable Laser Assembly) and pump laser diode modules for Raman amplifiers with the expanded wavelength range.Furukawa Electric developed the micro-ITLAs and Raman pump laser diode modules for wider wavelength range using its lower loss waveguide technology by optimizing...

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Sumitomo announces Expanded Beam multi-fiber connector

Sumitomo Electric Industries unveiled its new "AirEB", a multi-fiber connector with an expanded beam that has optical performance tolerant to the contamination on the connector mating faces.The new AirEB connector has a lens structure at the end face of the connector, which expands the optical beam to be tolerant of foreign dust particles and keeps optical performance good with less frequent cleaning, or even without cleaning.The company cites the...

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Silicon Photonics integration of Indium phosphide distributed feedback lasers

Sivers Photonics, imec, and ASM AMICRA successfully completed a wafer-scale integration of indium phosphide (InP) distributed feedback (DFB) lasers from Sivers’ InP100 platform onto imec’s silicon photonics platform (iSiPP). Using ASM AMICRA’s latest NANO flip-chip bonder tool, the InP DFB laser diodes were bonded onto a 300mm silicon photonics wafer with an alignment precision within 500nm, enabling reproducible coupling of more than 10mW of...

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DT expands its Open Telekom Cloud with Amsterdam data center

Deutsche Telekom is expanding the reach of its Open Telekom Cloud with the opening of a huge data center campus in Amsterdam.  The facility covers a total area of 21,000 square meters.  DT said its servers and storage will operate under the highest security standards, with electricity exclusively from renewable energy sources. The two facilities in Amsterdam target PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) values of 1.32 and 1.25, which is approximately...

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES and GlobalWafers increase 300mm wafer supply

GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced an $800 million agreement with GlobalWafers to add 300mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer manufacturing and expand existing 200mm SOI wafer production at GWC’s MEMC facility in O’Fallon, Missouri. The 300mm pilot line is on track to be completed in Q4 this year.In particular, the 300mm wafers made at GWC’s MEMC site in Missouri will be used at GF’s most advanced manufacturing facility, Fab 8 in Malta, New York, and the 200mm...

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Credo announces 3.2Tbps retimer chiplet with 112Gbps lane rates

Credo announced the production availability of a low-power 3.2Tbps retimer XSR-enabled high-speed connectivity chiplet with 112Gbps lane rates. Credo's new Nutcracker new device, which is optimized for multi-chip-modules (MCM) ASICs,  has 32 low-power lanes of 112G XSR SerDes on the host side, which communicate with the in-module system-on-chip (SOC) core ASIC. The chiplet has 32 lanes of low-power 112G MR+ reach-optimized DSP to provide...

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Sivers Photonics lands SEK 14 million optical sensing order

Sivers Photonics announced a new order worth approximately SEK 14m for design, development and supply of semiconductor laser devices for use in advanced optical sensing applications. The order comes from one of the company's established Fortune 100 customers and will be delivered and billed during 2021.“This is the second order from this customer in 2021, at total value of some SEK 25m, which is already on the same level as during the full year 2020....

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