News: Suppliers
6 August 2026
Veeco receives LUMINA+ MOCVD system order for manufacturing InP lasers
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that a global leader in optical and photonic technologies has selected its LUMINA+ metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) system to fabricate indium phosphide (InP) lasers for innovative communication solutions in the datacom industry. The firm adds that its LUMINA+ system has now been adopted across all major applications in the arsenide and phosphide (As/P) epitaxial space, including the fast-growing InP laser market.
“Following a series of recent orders and qualifications, this order extends the strong position of our LUMINA+ system for high-volume As/P production,” says Anil Vijayendran, VP of MOCVD products at Veeco. “Offering the same great process performance as the original LUMINA system, the LUMINA+ system achieves breakthrough productivity, bringing much-needed scale to the optical transceiver industry.”
Picture: Veeco’s LUMINA+ MOCVD system.
The fully automated LUMINA+ system has the largest As/P batch size in the MOCVD market, best-in-class throughput and lowest cost per wafer supported by Veeco’s TurboDisc technology, it is claimed, making it suitable for expanding InP laser production capacity. With a seamless wafer-size transition, LUMINA+ can deposit high-quality epitaxial layers on InP wafers of any size, Veeco adds.
According to market research firm LightCounting, sales of optical transceivers and related products are expected to grow by 53% in 2026 to $39bn, then continue this rapid growth over the next several years, driven by record capital deployment by the world’s leading hyperscalers and the shift in demand from training toward inference and agentic AI workloads. As major optical component manufacturers continue to build out InP laser capacity to meet this increasing demand, Veeco reckons that the LUMINA+ system positions it as a key MOCVD epitaxy supplier to support this expansion.
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