Integrated photonics as frontier technology have been gradually deployed in the past decade in many emerging applications. Some of the applications rely on the low cost of integrated solutions with mass production. Others focus on the potential higher density and lower power consumption that integration with large scales can bring in. Nonetheless, there are significant technical challenges that hinder the way of scaling-up of integrated photonics to fully leverage their advantages. Those obstacles arise primarily due to the immaturity of integrated photonics manufacturing and the scarcity of advanced packaging solutions involving photonics. We believe that photonic computing, serving demands for computation-generated content and the commercialization of new computation paradigm, can be the latest frontier that perfectly implements the large-scale photonic integration and benefits from the development of integration, as new optical materials, new architectures, and novel strategies have been introduced into the technology.

Along with this talk, Lightelligence is announcing the launch of PACE2, our 2nd generation optoelectric accelerated computing card, designed to deliver high performance, programability, and versatility through adanced photonic packaging: https://lnkd.in/enaNeWhC