Luxtera
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| Luxtera Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Carlsbad, CA |
| Industry | Semiconductor |
| Products | Blazar |
| Website | [1] |
Luxtera Inc., founded in 2001, is based in Carlsbad, California. Luxtera is a fabless semiconductor company that is using silicon photonics [1] technology to build complex electro-optical systems in a production silicon CMOS process. This class of technology (also being aggressively developed by large companies such as Intel and IBM) is widely predicted to displace large portions of the existing photonics industry that rely on discrete assemblies of electronic and photonic devices[2]. Luxtera's partners include Freescale Semiconductor (fabricates Luxtera's chips) and Cadence (develops EDA tools with Luxtera for silicon photonics). Luxtera is a Caltech spin-out with funding from venture capital, its business partners, and DARPA.[3]
[edit] Blazar
In August 2007, Luxtera announced the availability of Blazar, a 40GB optical active cable for interconnect within high performance computer clusters using single-mode fiber. Blazar is compliant with the SFP+ interface, allowing for the cable to be used in several different applications. [4] Longer term the company is aiming to displace copper cabling in short reach video applications such as DisplayPort and HDMI.
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[edit] External links
- FIBER OPTICS: Optical transceiver goes where copper cannot. Laser Focus World (2007-09-01). Retrieved on [[2008-01-02]].
