Openlight design enablement

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Customers design PASICs using OpenLight's Process Design Kit.

OpenLight is focused on design enablement to provide customers with everything they need to design their own, bespoke PASIC - Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit.

OpenLight licenses customers with an open-platform, Process Design Kit (PDK). The PDK takes engineers through all the steps necessary to design a world-leading PASIC. It provides access to a comprehensive library of active photonics components, such as tuneable DFB lasers, EA modulators, optical amplifiers, and photo detectors.

OpenLight’s Heterogeneous Integration technology means that all these active components can be fabricated as part of the same silicon photonics PASIC, removing the need to source and assemble separate lasers on silicon die. In addition, optical performance is improved, due to very low loss between active components and waveguides.

OpenLight – making photonics simple.

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More Press releases

Silicon Photonics enables fast, energy-efficient data processing.
Nov 2023

Silicon Photonics enables fast, energy-efficient data processing.

The EE Times Europe, Q and A interview with Adam Carter, CEO of OpenLight, looks at the company’s vision to bring silicon photonics to the masses.

Silicon Photonics enables fast, energy-efficient data processing.
What does open PDK really mean?
May 2024

What does open PDK really mean?

OpenLight’s open PDK (product development kit) allows customers to design their own, next-generation PASIC, for existing, new and emerging…

What does open PDK really mean?
OpenLight Announces Sample Availability of its First 1.6Tb DR8 DFB-based Photonic Integrated Circuit
Mar 2025

OpenLight Announces Sample Availability of its First 1.6Tb DR8 DFB-based Photonic Integrated Circuit

Technology alleviates system complexity and cost pressures and is capable of handling 1.6Tb data rates at 200G per lane, making it ideal for…

OpenLight Announces Sample Availability of its First 1.6Tb DR8 DFB-based Photonic Integrated Circuit