Luxtera Announces Production Status of Commercial Silicon CMOS Photonics Fabrication Process

By DE Editors

Luxtera is collaborating with Freescale Semiconductor as its foundry source to achieve production of the first commercial Silicon CMOS Photonics semiconductor manufacturing process.

The new photonically enabled CMOS fabrication process enables development and manufacturing of low-cost electro-photonic integrated circuits (EPIC) bringing CMOS Photonics to mainstream markets. Silicon CMOS photonics is recognized as the key enabler of the next-generation of data-networking, computer, multi-core processor, and consumer electronics products, according to the companies.

Silicon CMOS Photonics technology enables design and manufacturing of optics and electronics on a single CMOS die. This process combines standard transistors for digital and analogue electronic circuitry with passive nano-photonic optical structures, as well as monolithic integration of active photonic device elements and enables direct fiber-to-the-chip attachments. The new fabrication process allows the production of integrated single chip transceivers for many applications.

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