- POET (PTK) will work with Vanguard Automation on solutions for co-packaged optics and AI-ML applications
- The collaboration will enable the integration of Vanguard’s micro-lenses on the POET Optical Interposer to maximize coupling efficiency while maintaining POET’s wafer-level passive assembly process
- POET expects to start sampling the integrated products to customers in the second half of 2023
- POET Technologies is a design and development company facilitating the integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module
- POET Technologies (PTK) is up by 2.12 per cent, trading at $6.74 per share
POET (PTK) will work with Vanguard Automation on solutions for co-packaged optics and AI-ML applications.
Germany-based Vanguard Automation builds high-precision assembly machinery to propel photonic integration and packaging.
The collaboration will enable the integration of Vanguard’s micro-lenses on the POET Optical Interposer to maximize coupling efficiency while maintaining POET’s wafer-level passive assembly process.
POET and Vanguard will initially integrate the micro-lenses on POET’s LightBar products, which are aimed at AI-ML accelerators and bio-sensing applications to validate power efficiency improvements and the viability of chip-scale, wafer-level manufacturing.
POET expects to start sampling the LightBar products to customers in the second half of 2023.
“The number one requirement for the POET Optical Interposer is to maintain a passive, wafer-level assembly process for POET-designed optical engines and light source products. It is the key to our ability to offer significant scale and cost benefits to our customers,” stated Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, POET’s Chairman and CEO.
“Our optical interposer, together with Vanguard Automation’s facet-attached micro-lenses, create a powerful platform for electro-optical engines for transceivers, co-packaged optics, light engines and sensing devices. Incorporating micro-lenses improves the coupling efficiency of light as it passes from one photonic device to another, which in turn reduces the power consumption of the combined solution. The precise alignment and printing of the micro-lenses at wafer-level offer significant scalability and enhances our ability to address new markets with a uniquely powerful solution,” he added.
“We are excited to collaborate with POET Technologies to implement Vanguard Automation’s photonic integration and packaging solutions,” added Thorsten Mayer, CEO and Managing Director of Vanguard Automation. “The ability to print facet-attached micro-lenses at wafer level with POET’s Optical Interposer technology offers a unique electro-optical platform and combines the complementary strengths of both companies.”
POET Technologies is a design and development company facilitating the integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module.
POET Technologies (PTK) is up by 2.12 per cent, trading at $6.74 per share as of 9:35 am EST.
