Coherent Showcases Optical Innovations to Scale AI Infrastructure at ECOC 2026
Coherent Corp. is showcasing new optical technologies for scaling AI infrastructure at ECOC 2026 in Málaga, Spain, spanning co-packaged optics, next-generation pluggable transceivers, optical circuit switching, specialty fibers, and thermal management for rising power density. The company introduced PhotonLink, an integrated optics platform that combines its components and complete optical assemblies to support CPO, NPO and emerging chip-to-chip connectivity, with additional details to be announced separately.
Key figures
- Pols capacity
- up to 32 DWDM wavelengths over a single fiber pair, up to 25.6Tbps, links from 2km to 200km
- Transceiver demo
- 3.2T 2xDR4 in OSFP-size package with eight 425G PAM4 line-side lanes
- Npo optical engine
- 6.4T for AI scale-up and scale-out fabrics
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