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Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 8:20AM 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
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 3:40PM 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
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 8:05AM Teraxion has become a silicon photonics player with the launch of its compact 40 and 100 Gigabit coherent receivers.
The Canadian optical component company has long been known for its fibre Bragg gratings and tunable dispersion compensation products. But for the last three years it has been developing expertise in silicon photonics and at the recent European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) exhibition it announced its first products based on the technology.
"You don't have this [fabless] model for indium phosphide or silica, while an ecosystem is developing around silicon photonics"
Martin Guy, Teraxion
Sunday, July 29, 2012 at 4:31PM Heavy Reading has published a report Photonic Integration, Super Channels & the March to Terabit Networks. In this 60-second interview, Sterling Perrin, senior analyst at the market research company, talks about the report's findings and the technology's importance for telecom and datacom.
"PICs will be an important part of an ensemble cast, but will not have the starring role. Some may dismiss PICs for this reason, but that would be a mistake – we still need them."
Sterling Perrin, Heavy Reading
Friday, May 4, 2012 at 3:41PM Gazettabyte asked ADVA Optical Networking, Ciena, Cisco Systems and Ovum about their impressions following the recent OFC/NFOEC 2012 exhibition and conference.
OFC/NFOEC reflections: Part 2
"As the economy continues to navigate its way through yet another very difficult period, it was good to see so many companies innovating and introducing solutions."
Massimo Prati, Cisco Systems
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 10:34AM 
Source: The Optical Society
Novel technologies, operators' experiences with state-of-the-art optical deployments and technical papers on topics such as next-generation PON and 400 Gigabit and 1 Terabit optical transmission are some of the highlights of the upcoming OFC/NFOEC conference and exhibition, to be held in Los Angeles from March 4-8, 2012. Here is a taste of some of the technical paper highlights.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 4:27PM Luxtera has detailed a 4x28 Gigabit optical transceiver chip. The silicon photonics company is aiming the device at embedded applications such as system backplanes and high-performance computing (HPC). The chip is also being used by Molex for 100 Gigabit active optical cables. Molex bought Luxtera's active optical cable business in January 2011.
“Do I want to invest in a copper backplane for a single generation or do I switch over now to optics and have a future-proof three-generation chassis?”
Marek Tlalka, Luxtera
