Tower Semiconductor, Alcyon collaborate to accelerate photonics integration

Tower Semiconductor (TSEM) and Alcyon Photonics announced their collaboration to accelerate photonics integration. Through this partnership, Alcyon Photonics will provide customers with silicon-validated, high-performance photonic building blocks, BBs, and circuits to accelerate the development of next-generation optical applications. This collaboration enabled the development of silicon-proven photonic IP, facilitating a seamless transition from concept to production while ensuring exceptional performance, reliability, and manufacturability. Alcyon’s proprietary design techniques, provide significant competitive advantages, including outstanding stability that maintains channel drifts below 3 nm even with fabrication variations of up to 30 nm. This partnership provides customers with consistent, high-yield results, enabling efficient and cost-effective photonic integration.