Press Release
October 09, 2007
Kotura and CyOptics Win U.S. Commerce Department NIST-ATP Award for the Development of Next Generation Terabit Photonic Integrated Circuits (TERAPICS™)
Monterey Park, CA and Lehigh Valley, PA, October 09, 2007 -- Kotura Inc., a leading supplier of silicon photonics components, and CyOptics Inc., a leader in Indium Phosphide (InP) optical chip and component technologies, today announced that the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP) has awarded them $5.9 million in funding for a three-year project to develop next generation Terabit Photonic Integrated Circuits (TERAPICS™).
“In network centers and high performance computing clusters TERAPICS™ will reduce the number of transceivers, connectors and fibers by a factor of 100,” stated Arlon Martin, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Kotura. “We are exited that NIST-ATP sees the potential of our combined technologies to achieve this goal.”
Stefan Rochus, Vice President and of Marketing and Business Development at CyOptics stated, “The funding support being provided by NIST-ATP will help to push photonics integration technology frontiers to new limits. The TERAPICS™ development project will leverage CyOptics’ broad device portfolio of InP based lasers, receivers and integration processes as well as our highly automated assembly and packaging platforms.”
The project will use a combination of monolithic and hybrid integration to reduce hundreds of individual components to less than 10. While the first phase of the TERAPICS development will provide a platform for 100Gb Ethernet, the final project goal targets the demonstration of optical laser and receiver components for transmission speeds of up to 1Terabit-per-second (1,000Gbps). Kotura will develop the highly integrated silicon photonics chips, which serve as the mounting platforms for the laser and receiver arrays as well as providing the multiplex and de-multiplex functions. CyOptics will develop the monolithic arrays of high speed Indium Phosphide (InP) based lasers and detectors, the automated assembly processes and the laser and receiver components. The TERAPICS™ components will be assembled on CyOptics’ U.S. based highly automated assembly platform.
About CyOptics Inc. Found in 1999, CyOptics designs, develops and markets a full line of InP optical chips and components for integration into access, metro and long-haul communications systems. The company also provides complete contract design, foundry and packaging services. CyOptics is an industry leader in both hybrid integration using different elements in a single package and monolithic integration on a single chip. Manufacture is enabled by an automated “nano-tech” capable assembly and test process that delivers best performance, uniformity and cost. The Company's wafer/chip fabrication operations are located in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, and its planar automated packaging and testing operations are located both in Matamoros, Mexico and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. CyOptics is ISO 9001:2000 certified. For more information, please visit http://www.cyoptics.com or call 1-484-397-2061.
About Kotura, Inc. Kotura, Inc., a worldwide leader in silicon photonics designs, manufactures and markets a portfolio of application-specific silicon photonics products that are deployed in commercial applications within the fields of communications, computing, sensing, and detection. The company has been in mass production of silicon photonics components for more than three years and previously announced a two-year supply agreement with Alcatel-Lucent for its Ultra Fast Variable Optical Attenuator (VOA) Arrays. Kotura is also an active participant in the IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG), the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) and the Silicon Photonics Alliance, the first formal Community of Interest with the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA). For more information, please visit the company’s web site at www.kotura.com.
