Coherent Announces the World’s First 6-Inch Indium Phosphide Scalable Wafer Fabs Paving the Way for the Next Generation of Lasers for AI Transceivers and 6G Wireless Networks
25 Mars 2024 - 2:00PM
Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leading provider of compound
semiconductors and high-performance optical networking solutions,
announced today it has established the world’s first capability for
6-inch indium phosphide (InP) wafer fabrication, in the company’s
Sherman, Texas, and Järfälla, Sweden, wafer fabs. This exciting
milestone enables Coherent to increase production capacity and
lower die costs for InP optoelectronic devices, widely used in
applications such as coherent optical communications, datacom
transceivers, AI interconnects, advanced sensing for consumer
electronics and wearables, medical and automotive applications,
and, in the future, in 6G wireless and satellite communications
networks.
“We are very excited to announce our 6-inch indium phosphide
wafer fabrication capability in both our Sherman and Järfälla fabs,
which is a result of our continuous investment in innovation and
technology development, and our years of investment and operating
experience in high-volume VCSEL array manufacturing for mobile
handsets,” said Dr. Giovanni Barbarossa, Chief Strategy Officer and
President, Materials Segment. “Vertical integration at scale is a
core strategy that we have been relying upon in several of our
markets, and it has enabled our optoelectronics products to win in
the marketplace by delivering world-class quality, performance,
time-to-market, and cost advantage.”
“Moving to 6-inch wafers will enable us to continue to deliver
massive productivity improvements, including manufacturing 4x the
number of devices per wafer, achieve a greater than 60% reduction
in die cost, and allow us to transition our fabs to
higher-capacity, more-efficient automated process tools,” said Dr.
Beck Mason, Executive Vice President, Telecommunications. “This
capability will allow us to meet the growing demand for our indium
phosphide products in several of our core markets, while enhancing
our competitiveness and profitability.”
Coherent is in the process of qualifying several existing
products on its 6-inch InP platform, including a 200G
electro-absorption modulated laser (EML), 200G distributed-feedback
laser and Mach-Zehnder modulator (DFB-MZ), 100G EML, high-speed
photodetectors, and high-power CW lasers for silicon photonics
applications. The company expects to transition the bulk of its
production from 3-inch InP to 6-inch InP in the next few years to
fully leverage the benefits of larger wafer size, higher yield, and
improved performance that will be required to provide a sustainable
competitive advantage in its communications and sensing
markets.
About Coherent
Coherent empowers market innovators to define the future through
breakthrough technologies, from materials to systems. We deliver
innovations that resonate with our customers in diversified
applications for the industrial, communications, electronics, and
instrumentation markets. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania,
Coherent has research and development, manufacturing, sales,
service, and distribution facilities worldwide. For more
information, please visit us at coherent.com.
Contact
Amy WilsonManager, Corporate
Communicationscorporate.communications@coherent.com
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