POET Technologies Highlights Breakthrough Light Source and 1.6T Optical Engines at CIOE 2025

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POET Technologies, a leader in the design and implementation of highly integrated optical engines and light sources for artificial intelligence networks, showcased its latest optical products at the 2025 China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE), which took place September 10–12 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center.

At CIOE 2025, POET highlighted two breakthrough demonstrations designed for AI scale-up networks and hyperscale data centers:

  • Groundbreaking light source for Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) and high-bandwidth chip-to-chip communications, the POET BlazarTM, addressing the urgent bandwidth and latency challenges of AI scale-up networks. Blazar utilizes POET’s wafer-level chip-scale packaging technology to create a high-power, multi-channel light source as an alternative to traditional DFB laser-based solutions.
  • A line of 1.6T transmit and receive optical engines, called POET TeralightTM, that delivers performance and cost-optimized solutions for high-volume 1.6T pluggable transceivers, enabling scalable, next-generation interconnect solutions for data center and AI infrastructure.

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In addition to these demonstrations, Dr. Mo Jinyu, POET’s Senior Vice President of Global Product Development, was a featured speaker at the International Forum on Optical Communications (IFOC 2025) on September 9, 2025, in Shenzhen. Her talk, titled “An Advanced Photonic Integration Platform for Next-Generation AI Computing and High-Speed Data Center Interconnects”, highlighted how the POET Optical Interposer™ technology is uniquely positioned to address the growing demands of AI and cloud-scale connectivity.

POET’s senior executive team presented at CIOE 2025 and scheduled numerous customer and partner meetings in Shenzhen, reflecting strong global interest in POET’s Optical Interposer platform for cost efficiency, scalability, and performance advantages.

“CIOE is a cornerstone event for POET,” said Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, POET Executive Chairman and CEO. “Our live demonstrations this year, combined with Dr. Mo’s presentation at IFOC, underscore the breadth of POET’s innovation in photonic integration. Whether through our light-source advancements for CPO or our high-volume 1.6T optical engines, we are enabling customers to deploy cost-effective, high-bandwidth solutions that scale with the demands of Artificial Intelligence systems and networks.”
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