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Poet to collaborate with Vanguard for microlenses tech

2023-03-06 10:43 ET - News Release

Dr. Suresh Venkatesan reports

POET TECHNOLOGIES AND VANGUARD AUTOMATION COLLABORATE ON SOLUTIONS FOR CO-PACKAGED OPTICS AND AI-ML APPLICATIONS

Poet Technologies Inc. and Vanguard Automation GmbH will collaborate to enable the integration of microlenses on the Poet Optical Interposer to maximize coupling efficiency while maintaining Poet's wafer-level passive assembly process. Vanguard is the developer of 3-D-nanoprinted photonic wire bond and micro-lens technology, and manufacturer of software-defined equipment for photonic integration and packaging.

"The No. 1 requirement for the Poet Optical Interposer is to maintain a passive, wafer-level assembly process for Poet-designed optical engines and light source products. It is the key to our ability to offer significant scale and cost benefits to our customers," said Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, chairman and chief executive officer of Poet. "Our optical interposer together with Vanguard Automation's facet-attached-microlenses creates a powerful platform for electro-optical engines for transceivers, co-packaged optics, light engines and sensing devices. Incorporating microlenses improves the coupling efficiency of light as it passes from one photonic device to another, which in turn reduces power consumption of the combined solution. The precise alignment and printing of the microlenses at wafer-level offers significant scalability and enhances our ability to address new markets with a uniquely powerful solution."

"We are excited to collaborate with Poet Technologies to implement Vanguard Automation's photonic integration and packaging solutions," said Thorsten Mayer, CEO and managing director of Vanguard Automation. "The ability to print facet-attached-microlenses at wafer level with Poet's Optical Interposer technology offers a unique electro-optical platform and combines the complementary strengths of both companies."

Poet Technologies and Vanguard Automation will initially collaborate to integrate the microlenses on Poet's LightBar products, aimed at AI (artificial intelligence)-ML (machine learning) accelerators and bio-sensing applications to validate power efficiency improvements and the viability of chip-scale, wafer-level manufacturing using microlenses. Poet expects to start sampling LightBar products incorporating Vanguard Automation's microlenses to customers in the second half of 2023.

About Poet Technologies Inc.

Poet Technologies is a design and development company offering integration solutions based on the Poet Optical Interposer, a novel platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multichip module using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques and packaging methods. Poet's Optical Interposer eliminates costly components and labour-intensive assembly, alignment, burn-in and testing methods employed in conventional photonics. The cost-efficient integration scheme and scalability of the Poet Optical Interposer brings value to any device or system that integrates electronics and photonics, including some of the highest-growth areas of computing, such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, and high-speed networking for cloud service providers and data centres. Poet is headquartered in Toronto, with operations in Allentown, Pa., Shenzhen, China, and Singapore.

About Vanguard Automation GmbH

Vanguard Automation combines a decade of research in integrated photonics with 20 years of experience in building high-precision assembly machinery to propel photonic integration and packaging. Headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, Vanguard Automation develops process technology and machines for creating low-loss photonic connections between passive and active optical components leveraging its unique IP (intellectual property) portfolio for photonic wire bonding and facet-attached micro-optics. Augmenting nano-print technology, Vanguard Automation's solutions enable high packaging density, increased design flexibility and fabrication throughput.

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