Lumentum advances AI networking via NVIDIA Silicon Photonics Ecosystem pact

March 20, 2025
The photonic component provider’s indium phosphide lasers can be adapted to enable new AI infrastructure options.

Lumentum has been selected as a key contributor to NVIDIA’s silicon photonics ecosystem to develop and deploy new NVIDIA Spectrum-X Photonics networking switches. 

NVIDIA said that Lumentum’s high-power lasers are key in creating new NVIDIA Spectrum-X Photonics networking switches.

Scaling AI factories present significant power consumption challenges. NVIDIA’s newly announced Spectrum-X Photonics and Quantum-X Photonics networking switches integrate photonic innovations, including Lumentum’s lasers, to significantly reduce power consumption, enhance resilience, and enable faster deployment.

Lumentum has established itself as a provider of high-performance indium phosphide laser solutions for data infrastructure. This new laser technology complements its existing electro-absorption modulated lasers (EMLs), which power many of today’s 400 Gbps, 800 Gbps, and upcoming 1.6 Tbps optical transceivers in cloud and AI data centers.

“Innovations that drastically lower networking power consumption will expand the market for photonic components, supporting larger AI installations and accelerating the transition from copper to photonic interconnects,” said Wupen Yuen, president of cloud and networking technology for Lumentum.

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