Coherent Corp., the global leader in photonics, today announced PhotonLink™, an integrated optics platform that brings together Coherent’s broad portfolio of critical photonics technologies, precision assembly and test capabilities to deliver complete optical solutions for next-generation AI datacenters. The platform supports co-packaged optics (CPO), near-packaged optics (NPO) and emerging chip to chip connectivity. As AI systems continue to scale, demand for higher bandwidth and lower power is driving optical connectivity closer to compute and switching s...

Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today announced industry-first 2nm optical interconnect demonstrations that advance the next generation of AI data center connectivity. The technologies will be showcased at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2026, September 20–24, 2026, in Málaga, Spain, underscoring how Marvell continually delivers new waves of advanced connectivity solutions to scale AI infrastructure. As AI data center architectures scale from 1.6T to 3.2...

Lumentum Holdings Inc. (“Lumentum”) today announced its plan to demonstrate an eight-wavelength dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) laser module in an External Laser Small Form Factor Pluggable (ELSFP) at ECOC 2026. The module incorporates an optical interface designed to meet the applicable requirements of the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA). It is intended for external laser source applications in co-packaged optics (CPO) and near-packaged optics (NPO) architectures. Attendees can see the demons...

ECOC 2026, the European Conference on Optical Communications, has been taking place this week in Málaga, Spain. Researchers from both industry and academia and professionals came together to discuss and explore advances in optical communications. The conference program covered all aspects in the field of optical communications and networks, including emerging fields such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and Quantum Technologies. optics.org has here gathered together a selection of notable launch announcements: Avicena, a developer of microL...