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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OpenLight Partners with TFC to Fast-track the Silicon Photonics Back-end Process for Semiconductor Production and Optical Communication Systems
Mar 2025

OpenLight Partners with TFC to Fast-track the Silicon Photonics Back-end Process for Semiconductor Production and Optical Communication Systems

Partnership provides a solution, combining OSAT (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test) services with advanced Tx engine designs for optical…

OpenLight Partners with TFC to Fast-track the Silicon Photonics Back-end Process for Semiconductor Production and Optical Communication Systems
OpenLight will attend the Tower, Technical Global Symposium, 2025.
Sep 2025

OpenLight will attend the Tower, Technical Global Symposium, 2025.

OpenLight will be attending Tower Semiconductor’s 2025 TGS (Technical Global Symposium) on 16th September 2025, in Shanghai, China.

OpenLight will attend the Tower, Technical Global Symposium, 2025.
OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Expand PH18DA Photonics Ecosystem to Accelerate Photonic IC Development
Aug 2026

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Expand PH18DA Photonics Ecosystem to Accelerate Photonic IC Development

OpenLight’s PDK is now available on Cadence’s EDA tools, enabling PIC development on Tower’s PH18DA InP-on-silicon photonics platform

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Expand PH18DA Photonics Ecosystem to Accelerate Photonic IC Development