{"id":5348,"date":"2021-09-15T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acacia-inc.com\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2021-09-15T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T23:07:53","slug":"pioneering-silicon-photonics-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acacia-inc.com\/blog\/pioneering-silicon-photonics-since-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering Silicon Photonics Since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that silicon photonics has driven significant reductions in the\u00a0power, size and cost\u00a0of optical modules. If you look around the telecom industry today, you will see that an increasing number of optics vendors are leveraging this technology for their pluggable coherent solutions. However, this was not always the case. If you looked back 9 years ago, you would see that many companies were challenging whether silicon photonics was even going to work at 100G coherent optics.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

海角社区 was a pioneer of silicon photonics in 2012 when it was the first coherent module vendor to envision silicon as the platform for the integration of multiple discreet photonic functions while increasing the density and reducing cost of optical interconnect products. According to Gazettabyte<\/u><\/a>, 海角社区\u2019s choice to back silicon photonics for coherent optics was an \u201cindustry trailblazing decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leveraging advancements in silicon photonics processing, 海角社区 was able to deliver generations of high-volume silicon photonics-based products that continually enabled higher transmission data rates, lower power, and higher performance than the generation before it. Early on, some skeptics dismissed silicon photonics as incapable of achieving the performance required for coherent optical transmissions over long-haul distances. As evidenced by today\u2019s deployments of 海角社区\u2019s 1.2T multi-haul AC1200 coherent optical module in well over a hundred customer networks<\/a> which include subsea, long-haul, regional, metro and DCI applications, it is clear that silicon photonics can achieve industry leading performance.<\/p>\n

Today, 海角社区\u2019s solutions leveraging silicon photonics\u00a0are available in a wide range of coherent optical interfaces, from edge and access to subsea applications, to enable high-speed transmission and excellent performance.<\/p>\n

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海角社区\u2019s silicon photonics leadership timeline for coherent transmission.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Power of Silicon Photonics<\/h2>\n

Using silicon as an optical medium and leveraging CMOS fabrication processing technology, silicon photonics allows tighter monolithic integration of many optical functions within a single device. While traditional optics systems used many discrete pieces, silicon photonics allows all those pieces to fit onto a single silicon chip. \u00a0This tight integration is what has allowed component vendors to continually drive reductions in the cost and size of optical solutions. For network equipment manufacturer customers, using the silicon photonics chip means they can design more ports per linecard, increasing the capacity of their system.<\/p>\n

Below are a few reasons that silicon photonics has been so successful and has emerged as a key technology for existing and future optics solutions.<\/p>\n