Through this partnership, Alcyon Photonics will provide customers with silicon-validated, high-performance photonic building blocks (BBs) and circuits to accelerate the development of next-generation optical applications.
Leveraging Tower Semiconductor’s advanced, high-volume SiPho platform, this collaboration is intended to enable the development of robust, silicon-proven photonic IP, facilitating the transition from product concept to production.
Alcyon’s proprietary design techniques, which are optimised for Tower’s SiPho technology, provide significant competitive advantages, including improved stability that maintains channel drifts below 3 nm even with fabrication variations of up to 30 nm.
Together with Tower’s high-volume SiPho manufacturing capabilities, this partnership will provide customers with consistent, high-yield results, enabling efficient and cost-effective photonic integration.
Commenting on the collaboration Jimena García-Romeu, CEO of Alcyon Photonics, said, “By combining our advanced photonics design expertise with Tower’s industry-leading foundry SiPho technology, we are enabling customers to create compelling new applications with a faster and more predictable development cycle.”
This collaboration brings specific advancements to market, including CWDM solutions optimised for data centre networking in the O band, which support high-capacity and high-performance optical interconnects. Additionally, the partnership is driving advancements in coherent communications across the C+L bands, expanding bandwidth, enhancing scalability, and future-proofing optical networks.
“Tower Semiconductor is committed to fostering a strong ecosystem that supports our customers in accelerating their photonic innovation,” said Dr. Samir Chaudhry, Vice President of Customer Design Enablement, Tower Semiconductor. “Collaborating with Alcyon Photonics as an IP partner further reinforces Tower Semiconductor’s leadership in silicon photonics, strengthening our offering by providing validated, high-performance photonic components that will help drive the next wave of integrated photonics applications.”
