Users embrace OpenLight's silicon photonics platform

OpenLight, the open silicon photonics platform provider, can point to a successful 2024 signing up new customers. 

In 2023, OpenLight had three customers bringing photonic integrated circuit (PIC) designs to market. OpenLight has since added 14 more.  

OpenLight was formed in 2022 when Juniper Networks carved out its silicon photonics arm. Synopsys acquired a three-quarters stake in OpenLight, while Juniper retained a quarter.

“In the past, the company hadn’t really done any revenue, including when they were in Juniper,” says Adam Carter, OpenLight’s CEO (pictured). “We’ve seen a ten times increase and shown that we can be very profitable.”

The start-up has been creating industry partnerships to better serve its customers' circuit design, chip manufacturing, and packaging needs.

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OpenLight's CEO on its silicon photonics strategy

Adam Carter, recently appointed the CEO of OpenLight, discusses the company’s strategy and the market opportunities for silicon photonics.

Adam Carter, CEO of OpenLight

Adam Carter’s path to becoming OpenLight’s first CEO is a circuitous one.

OpenLight, a start-up, offers the marketplace an open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers and gain blocks.

Having worked at Cisco and Oclaro, which was acquired by Lumentum in 2018, Carter decided to take six months off. Covid then hit, prolonging his time out.

Carter returned as a consultant working with firms, including a venture capitalist (VC). The VC alerted him about OpenLight’s search for a CEO.

Carter’s interest in OpenLight was immediate. He already knew the technology and OpenLight’s engineering team and recognised the platform’s market potential.

“If it works in the way I think it can work, it [the platform] could be very interesting for many companies who don't have access to the [silicon photonics] technology,” says Carter.

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