Lumiphase designs and manufactures optical communication chips using Barium Titanate (BTO) and silicon photonics to enable efficient light control for high-speed data transmission. These chips provide compact, low-power solutions that meet the growing demand for cost-effective performance in optical networking applications.
Funding
$5.4M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
The increasing demand for high-speed data transmission in datacenters, telecom infrastructure, and advanced computing applications requires optical communication solutions that offer compact size, low power consumption, and cost-effectiveness. Existing solutions often struggle to simultaneously meet these requirements, hindering the scalability and sustainability of modern IT systems.
Solution
Lumiphase designs and manufactures optical engines based on Barium Titanate (BTO) enhanced silicon photonics (SiPh) to enable efficient light control for high-speed data transmission. By integrating BTO, a material with a strong electro-optical effect, into a silicon photonics platform, Lumiphase's products deliver leading-edge efficiency and scalability. These optical engines are tailored to customer needs, providing compact, low-power, and cost-efficient solutions for various applications, including high-speed transceivers, co-packaged optics, coherent transponders, and optical switches. Lumiphase's technology facilitates the convergence of computing, networking, and sensing by enabling the seamless integration of electronic and photonic functions.
Target Audience
Lumiphase's primary customers are companies in the datacom, telecom, computing, and sensing industries that require ultra-compact, low-power, and cost-efficient light control engines for applications such as high-speed transceivers, co-packaged optics, optical switches, coherent transponders, ROADMs, RF over fiber, inter-satellite communication, new computing architectures, autonomous driving, and 3D scene imaging.
Features
- BTO-enhanced Silicon Photonics (SiPh) Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs)
- Unique thin-film BTO production technology
- High-speed and compact electro-optic modulation
- High-density and low-power BTO+SiPh chips
- Tailored data rates to 200G/lane and beyond
- CMOS compatibility for scalability and reliability
- Integration of BTO into an established SiPh platform