News: Optoelectronics
15 April 2025
POET broadens customer engagements following product showcase at OFC
POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada — designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and light sources for the hyperscale data-center, telecom and artificial intelligence (AI) markets — has announced significant new customer engagement in response to live demonstrations of the Teralight line of 1.6T transmit and receive optical engines at the 2025 Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference in San Francisco, CA, USA (1–3 April).
POET also debuted Blazar, an external light source (ELS) that promises to shrink costs by an order of magnitude, with the potential to disrupt the AI connectivity ecosystem, it is reckoned, at a time when the industry is in need of viable new solutions.
“Blazar represents a new class of laser and is designed to drive AI connectivity to the next level. It can transform the economics of AI connectivity with an architecture that reduces costs and increases scale and manufacturing efficiency,” says chairman & CEO Dr Suresh Venkatesan. “With the massive amount of compute power that AI demands, we believe that Blazar offers an economically superior solution for co-packaged optics (CPO) applications and, more importantly, for chip-to-chip, light-based connectivity in AI clusters,”he adds.
“The period immediately following OFC is a crucial one for POET and we are seeing robust engagement with existing and new customers alike,” says chief revenue officer Raju Kankipati. “We are laser focused on driving revenue this year and preparing for substantial revenue growth in 2026.”
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