PRESENTATION

Doing More with Less as a Photonics Manufacturing Strategy

The mainstreaming of silicon photonics is settled. With applications as diverse as LIDAR, quantum computing, wearables and of course data-center connectivity, our industry is broad, robust, and confronting a steep scaling ramp. This means two things: First, diversity shields us from 2002’s single point of market failure. As presented two years ago, the ramp is massive. Yet it comes when supply chains are strained, resources are scarce, environmental concerns are intensifying and geopolitical tensions are increasing. Thus, the second impact: We must embrace a paradigm of doing more with less. We discuss approaches and solutions proven to yield agility and compress timescales stretched by availability constraints.