Infinera to scale next generation´s Photonic Integrated Chips with AIXTRON system

One of AIXTRON´s local support teams will commission the system at the Infinera InP Photonic Integrated Circuit fabrication facility in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Dr. Fred Kish, Senior Vice President, Optical Integrated Circuit Group, comments, “We were looking for the world’s foremost MOCVD system to provide a foundation for the fabrication and scaling of our next generation PICs. The AIXTRON MOCVD system will be of significant importance not only in development but also in production of these challenging Indium Phosphide (InP) circuits.

Our decision was based on several distinguishing factors and not the least being that AIXTRON is considered to be the industry’s best in-class vendor. Their systems have the highest reputation and capabilities and include precise epitaxy control, excellent run uniformity as well as scalability for guaranteed future proofing. Couple that with the excellent support service and we were certain the AIX 2600G3 IC deposition system uniquely suited our needs.”

Infinera is a developer and provider of Digital Optical Networking systems to telecommunications carriers worldwide.  The Sunnyvale based company has developed a proprietary breakthrough semiconductor technology: the photonic integrated circuit (PIC) which integrates over sixty functions on two chips ensuring Infinera’s position as a key player in the Long Haul (LH) Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed (DWDM) Optical Transport Networks market. Today, Infinera's systems and PIC technology provide customers with simpler and more flexible engineering and operations, faster time-to-service, and the ability to rapidly deliver differentiated services. Most recently, Infinera has demonstrated next-generation PICs capable of both 500 Gb/s and 1 Tb/s implemented on two monolithic InP chips which integrate over 600 functions.

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