POET and Semtech announce customer sampling of 1.6T optical receivers
POET says the product, which targets AI and cloud networks, demonstrates how its Optical Interposer platform enables seamless integration of high-performance electronic and photonic components with Semtech's FiberEdge technology
POET Technologies and Semtech Corporation have announced the immediate availability for customer sampling of 1.6T receiver optical engines for AI and cloud networks.
The new products leverage POET's Optical Interposer platform to integrate Semtech’s FiberEdge 200G-per-lane receiver technologies. The companies say this combination creates highly integrated, chip-scale receive (Rx) engines that simplify module assembly while improving performance and manufacturability. The optical engines include DR8 for short-reach AI cluster links and 2×FR4 for longer-reach intra-datacentre connectivity and are available immediately for customer sampling.
“By integrating Semtech’s leading 200G-per-lane receiver technology with POET’s chip-scale optical interposer, we’ve achieved exceptional receiver performance that addresses the most demanding requirements for AI and cloud networks,” said Raju Kankipati, chief revenue officer at POET Technologies. “We expect customers will quickly understand the market impact these products can make on their transceiver offerings and the resulting benefit to their customers. This collaboration also further deepens POET’s presence in the global high-speed optical transceiver ecosystem.”
Amit Thakar, vice president of signal integrity product marketing at Semtech, commented: “Delivering 200G-per-lane performance with the power headroom system designers need is fundamentally a signal-integrity challenge. By co-optimising our FiberEdge receive path with the POET Optical Interposer at the architecture and assembly levels, we’re achieving exceptional sensitivity and power in 1.6T DR8 and 2×FR4 receiver engines now sampling to customers.”
