Avago to acquire CyOptics

• Avago to become the second largest optical component player
• Company gains laser and photonic integration technologies
• The goal is to grow data centre and enterprise market share
• CyOptics achieved revenues of $210M in 2012 

How the acquisition of CyOptics will expand Avago's market opportunities. SAM is the serviceable addressable market and TAM is the total addressable market. Source: Avago

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CyOptics gets $50m worth of new investors and funding

Optical component firm CyOptics has received a US $50million investment. Gazettabyte discussed the company’s activities and plans with CEO, Ed Coringrato, and Stefan Rochus, the company’s vice president of marketing and business development. 

“Volume production scale is very important to having a successful business”

Ed Coringrato, CyOptics

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UNIC silicon modulator

Kotura has detailed a compact, low-power silicon-based optical modulator; an important building block to enable dense on-chip optical interconnects. The modulator operates at up to 11Gbit/s, consumes 0.5mW and has an area of 1000µm².

This is the silicon photonic start-up’s first announced modulator. The design has been developed in conjunction with Sun Microsystems as part of the DAPRA Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communications (UNIC) programme.

An image of the modulator and a cross-section diagram of the ring waveguide. Source: Kotura

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