As is identified in the POET’s white paper submission to VLSI-IEEE Symposium.

VLSI-IEEE Symposium Accepted Paper on Wafer-Scale Hybrid Integration – June 2022

Multiple waveguide layers are monolithically integrated on the wafer. These waveguides are configured to perform the various optical functions required such as multiplexers, de-multiplexers, vertical and in-plane couplers, interferometers and directional coupler-based power taps.

So what’s the next great hope for a meditech wearable. A company called POET has the capabilities to produce a small form factor and highly efficient (low power draw)  optical engine that is needed to fit on a wrist.

Rockley has spent hundreds of millions trying to build a product with conventional silicon photonics. Makes you wonder just how Apple could even look at Rockley without knowing how limited their platform is. Suresh knew how much more capable the POET platform is over Rockley’s and he told us so early on.

Let me recall a moment in time when I knew Suresh was onto a very significant invention. On March 6, 2018 Tombot, Ms Tombot and myself had the pleasure of speaking with Suresh and TM at the Empire Club in Toronto. The presenter at the event was D Wave Systems.  

It was early days for the development of the optical interposer but it was very obvious the excitement in Suresh an Tom’s voices when they spoke of the ability of the optical interposer to bring electronic and photonics together. It was the level closeology that Suresh was describing that allowed him to state that industry executives will want to know more. This capability to combine the two domains without interference was special and something that would open doors for POET. My question was “would it open doors because who you are Suresh?” The answer was (paraphrase) it will doors because it is unique and has great value.

That was when I knew that Suresh was going to turn this optical interposer technology into something that would be far reaching.