Tower Semiconductor and Scintil Photonics launch DWDM lasers
Tower Semiconductor and Scintil Photonics have announced the availability of what they describe as the world’s first heterogeneously integrated Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) laser sources designed for next-generation AI infrastructure.
The solution is based on Scintil’s SHIP™ (Scintil Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics) platform, which combines monolithic laser integration with Tower’s high-volume silicon photonics manufacturing capabilities.
The companies say the technology meets demanding DWDM requirements for Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) architectures aimed at delivering higher bandwidth density, lower energy per bit, and reduced latency in hyperscale AI data centres.
Scintil’s LEAF Light™ is positioned as the industry’s first DWDM-optimised external laser source fabricated using heterogeneous integration on a silicon photonics platform.
Validation on Tower’s production lines enables a pathway from customer evaluation to volume manufacturing, supported by Tower’s multi-site global manufacturing footprint.
As AI workloads scale and data centre interconnect demands increase, DWDM-based CPO is emerging as a key architecture to overcome copper bandwidth limitations and power constraints.
The companies state that the collaboration is intended to support hyperscale deployments requiring both manufacturing scale and supply continuity.
Customer evaluations for DWDM CPO programs are currently underway, with the partnership targeting high-volume production for AI networking applications.
