A recent, unpublicized, corporate-wide reorganization by Lumentum Holdings might look like an admission of the company’s inability and/or unwillingness to efficiently run its internal factories…
Category: Passive Devices
OFC 2019: Nine Additional Odds and Ends
Before getting to the subject of this article, I need to point out the most significant and outstanding event at OFC: Mitch Fields at the…
Arris + CommScope = Another M&A Decoy
An industry observer is expected to believe that CommScope, which was on the record at Investor Day, several months before the announcement of the merger…
Microsoft/Facebook Will Never Deploy Co-Packaged Optics as Defined
Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) is a serious risk to the well-being of the photonics industry, which can ill-afford the expenditure of such valuable resources. The concept…
Additional Upshots at Dublin Optics Show
As a complementary piece to our last article, “Throwing Down the Gauntlet at ECOC 2019,” we provide some other final thoughts on the conference, including…
Silicon Photonics: Widespread Usage on Active Components Doubtful
While the amount of industry chatter about silicon photonics rose substantially in 2014, partially because of certain market research firms looking to sell more reports,…
Finisar Getting a Raw Deal with Silicon Photonics
When it comes to technology development, some of the leading analysts in the financial community have a tendency to blindly follow a template of conventional…
Bullish on 850nm VCSELs; Avago Selling VCSEL Components
As we will demonstrate on an OFC 2015 panel, the data center VCSEL market will remain healthy for an extremely long time, especially in terms…
Another Savior of Data Center MM Fiber?
In addition to the development of longer-distance and higher-speed VCSELs, there is a possibility that in the long term, polymer waveguide material embedded in electronics…
Optical Hardware Innovation Permanently
At the OFC 2015 show next month, the Rump Session is entitled, “Is it ‘Game Over’ for Hardware?” The discussion will be about “[s]ome industry trends…