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SEE ANYTHING NEW IN BRUSSELS THIS WEEK? Our Optica outreach team certainly did. PIC Magazine & PIC International Conference dates are carefully chosen so we can have a follow-up discussion after the OFC Conference. This year, it was very important because many of you saw my previous video reporting on how NVIDIA made very strong claims that copper will still be the solution of choice for the GPU interconnect. In Brussels, we had a useful exchange of views from Joost van Kerkhof, PHIX Photonics Assembly, Michael Lebby Lightwave Logic, Inc., Peter O'Brien Tyndall (PIXAPP Pilot Line ) and Raju Kankipati from POET Technologies. The conclusion from the PIC panel discussion was that even though copper will still be the solution for the next 2-3 years, there is no other way for the industry to keep going with bandwidth demands without silicon photonics.

And it was great to find out what's going on in Portugal as we wandered through the PIC exhibition. There are new facilities offering packaging of photonic integrated circuits, as we learned in the interview with Francisco Manuel Ruivo Rodrigues, CEO of PICadvanced.

After Brussels my next stop is the Hague, the Netherlands where we'll be joining the Inside Quantum Technology conference. I want to ask the participants about the next challenges for the quantum industry. This will act as input for further discussion on the 19th and 20th of November in Bristol, UK  during the 3rd Optica quantum industry summit. Here’s the link for more info. https://lnkd.in/dFDBQ9ia