Building the Fabric of Photonic Intelligence
Together, Artilux’s fundational breakthroughs — spanning Halcyon™ photodetectors, Phoenix™ APDs, Nova™ SPADs, Metalens, and Ge EAM modulators — form a unified photonic foundation that merges sensitivity, speed, and scalability. These components are not isolated technologies but building blocks of an integrated photonic ecosystem, designed to communicate, sense, and compute using light.
By vertically integrating device, circuit, and system design within CMOS-compatible processes, Artilux transforms fundamental semiconductor innovation into system-level architectures that redefine how information is transmitted, processed, and understood — paving the way for the next era of photon-based intelligence.
“Narrow and Fast” Waveguide-based Optical Interconnect
Building on the maturity and scalability of the silicon photonics platform, Artilux’s “narrow and fast” optical interconnect architecture introduces two key innovations:
- A 2D vertical grating coupler array with only 1–1.5 dB coupling loss, enabling highly efficient, compact, and alignment-tolerant optical input/output at scale.
- A high-speed germanium electro-absorption modulator (Ge EAM) operating in the O-band with improved temperature stability, delivering ultra-fast and energy-efficient signal modulation within a compact footprint.
Together, these innovations establish a new foundation for energy-efficient, high-bandwidth optical links that seamlessly connect processors, memory, and accelerators. Designed for AI systems, data centers, and co-packaged optics (CPO), this architecture drives the transition from electrical to photonic interconnects—paving the way for a faster, greener, and more scalable computing future.
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“Wide and Slow” Array-Based Optical Interconnect Fabrics
Artilux’s “wide and slow” optical interconnect architecture is engineered for scale-up application with a focus on parallelism, energy efficiency, latency and scalability. Instead of pushing individual channels to extreme speeds, this design distributes data across a dense micro-LED or VCSEL emitter array paired with a GeSi photodiode (PD) or avalanche photodiode (APD) array receiver directly integrated with ASIC for a compact optical I/O chiplet.
Operating in the green light spectrum and above, the system achieves ultra-low power consumption while maintaining high aggregate bandwidth. At its core, Artilux’s GeSi PD/APD technology delivers ultra-high sensitivity and wide operational bandwidth in a large-scale array format with the capability for direct ASIC integration, ensuring reliable, high-fidelity signal reception even at minimal optical power levels.
Optimized for scale-up applications such as processor-to-memory, chiplet-to-chiplet, and in-package optical interconnects, this architecture bridges the gap between electrical and photonic domains with compact form factors, minimal heat dissipation, and CMOS-compatible manufacturability. By embracing optical parallelism at the component level, Artilux is enabling the next generation of high-density, energy-aware computing modules.
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Photonic Computing — Ultra Low Power Analog Computing Reinvented
At Artilux, we are exploring the next frontier where light itself becomes the medium of computation. Building on our proprietary GeSi photonic platform, we are developing breakthrough architectures that harness the analog richness and parallelism of photons to perform computation with unprecedented speed and energy efficiency. While details remain under wraps, this initiative represents a bold step toward a future where sensing, communication, and computing converge into a unified photonic fabric — transforming how intelligence is generated, transmitted, and perceived.
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