There has been a little bit of lunch pail tossing here as how some people have vented their frustration. Though frustration is warranted, we also need to stay focused on the facts. So I bolded parts of an earlier NR to help keep our expectations realistic or better understood.

POET Technologies Announces Development of Micro Multiplexer and De-Multiplexer Solutions

January 31st, 2017

Products Based on POET’s Integrated Photonics Technology

SAN JOSE, CA, January 31, 2017 – POET Technologies Inc. (“POET”) (OTCQX: POETF; TSX Venture: PTK), a developer of opto-electronic fabrication processes for the semiconductor industry, today announced that it will release in the second half of 2017 a low loss, low cost micro multiplexer and de-multiplexer product for 100G and above transceivers based on the technology developed at its subsidiary BB Photonics Inc.

The Company has been developing dielectric arrayed waveguide grating devices based on its low stress dielectric technology that incorporates increased wavelength and routing functionality. The devices include mode size converters within the dielectric to modify the coupling requirements to single mode fiber while also reducing packaging costs.  The dielectric technology is manufactured on large diameter silicon wafers to reduce cost and enable quick scale-up for volume manufacturing. The initial release will be a stand-alone product for the high speed transceiver market to lower the cost of discrete multiplexer and de-multiplexer components used in 100G transceivers.

Bill Ring, Senior Vice President of POET Technologies stated, “The low stress dielectric technology the Company has been developing enables implementation of compact, highly reliable multiplexers and de-multiplexers. These products are more compact than competing Silica PLC or Thin Film Filter technologies, enabling the integration of increased waveguide functionality to reduce packaging costs.”

The key features of the product are:

• Arrayed Waveguide Devices with Mode converters
• Low insertion loss
• Matching of the output to single mode fiber
• Elimination of coupling optics between the waveguide output and single mode fiber
• Low rate of change of the Filter response with temperature of < 0.014nm per degrees
• Low polarization dependent loss equivalent to Silica PLC devices
• Smaller footprint than Silica PLC devices
• Telcordia qualified 

POET Technologies is offering this low cost family of products to transceiver vendors as an alternative component for the integration of discrete packaged devices with a large number of wavelengths in a more compact footprint. The technology is well suited for LAN WDM product solutions.

Thank you to those revisiting this NR,

Monolithic