CMOS Photonics
As network traffic continues to grow at a high rate, network system vendors are looking for new, innovative ways to dramatically improve bandwidth density of switches and routers, while keeping power dissipation low. Lightwire’s CMOS Photonics technology is ideally suited for meeting this challenge, due to its inherent advantages.
The CMOS Advantage
Lightwire’s OASIS (Opto-electronic Application Specific Integrated Subsystem) platform leverages the advantages of CMOS manufacturing — the predictability of tools, mature processes, and low cost. And it enables high degree of integration and density, while maintaining power dissipation to very low levels.
By lowering power dissipation, CMOS Photonics enables optical transceiver functions to fit into smaller form-factor modules. This improves bandwidth density of network equipment.
Lightwire’s patented modulation and optical-coupling building blocks, combined with integration capability of CMOS Photonics, enable advanced modulation schemes. This makes possible telecom-grade performance — at lower costs to ensure success in datacomm networks.