
Communications and Compute
Integrated nanomaterial devices enable broadband, silicon-compatible photonic chips for data, telecom, and networking
Project Breakdown
Description: Photonics is redefining how data moves — from datacenters to edge devices. Iris Light’s photonic manufacturing platform enables high-sensitivity detectors and on-chip light sources with tight integration. Built using tunable nanomaterial films, these devices support scalable, high-bandwidth connectivity solutions.
- AI Photonic Chips: Photonic chip solutions are the only way to achieve the bandwidth density and energy efficiency required for AI chip-to-chip communication. Beyond these traditional roles of optics in the cluster compute stack, PICs breakthrough potential in neural network and photonics-enhanced training acceleration for next-generation AI architectures.
- Optical Communications: Iris Light’s broadband photodetectors and lasers aim to deliver ultrafast optical I/O with low energy per bit. Integration with silicon photonics enables optical interconnects for next-generation datacenters, computing architectures, and long-haul transit. The CMOS-compatible manufacturing process supports high-volume, reliable component manufacturing for the optical backbone of modern data systems.




