The markets for photonic integrated circuits in 2030

What will be the leading markets for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) by the decade's end? And what are the challenges facing the PIC industry?

SiLC Technologies' Lidar PIC. Source: SiLC Technologies.

A panel session at the recent PIC Summit Europe event held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, looked at what would be the markets for photonic integrated circuits by 2030.

The market for PICs is dominated by datacom and telecom. However, emerging applications include medical and wearable devices, optical computing, autonomous vehicles, and sensing applications for the oil, gas, water, and agriculture industries.

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Mellanox to acquire silicon photonics player Kotura

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Mellanox Technologies has announced its intention to acquire silicon photonics player, Kotura for $82 million.

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Q&A with Kotura's CTO: Integration styles and I/O limits

The second, and final part, of the Q&A with Mehdi Asghari, CTO of silicon photonics start-up, Kotura. 

Part 2 of 2

"When do the big players adopt a new technology and go from an electrical to an optical solution? In my experience, usually when they absolutely have to."

Mehdi Asghari, CTO, Kotura

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Silicon photonics: Q&A with Kotura's CTO

A Q&A with Mehdi Asghari, CTO of silicon photonics start-up, Kotura.  In part one, Asghari talks about a recent IEEE conference that included silicon photonics, the next Ethernet standard, and the merits of silicon photonics for system design.

Part 1

 

"Photons and electrons are like cats and dogs. Electrons are dogs: they behave, they stick by you, they are loyal, they do exactly as you tell them, whereas cats are their own animals and they do what they like. And that is what photons are like."

Mehdi Asghari, CTO of Kotura

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