Why Google needs POET

Aiming to become the global leader in chip-scale photonic solutions by deploying Optical Interposer technology to enable the seamless integration of electronics and photonics for a broad range of vertical market applications

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Why Google needs POET

posted on Dec 08, 2022 10:59AM

Google's patents on opto-electronic hybrid integration platform, optical sub-module, opto-electronic hybrid integration circuit, and process for fabricating platform are expired. There are competitors with somewhat newer, active patents, however their issues preclude them from being usable.

Right around the year 2000, photonics was supposed to takeoff, but size, power and heat were the primary issues making the technology not ready for prime time. POET has resolved those issues and then some.

Google: Fabrication of a hybrid integrated circuit device including an optoelectronic chip: