About NeoPhotonics (now Lumentum)
NeoPhotonics made optoelectronic components that send, receive and switch light signals in telecom backbones and data center networks. Its focus was coherent optics, a method that encodes data in the phase and amplitude of light to carry 100 gigabits per second and more over a single wavelength. The company was founded in 1996 and based in San Jose, California. Lumentum acquired it in August 2022 in a deal valued at about $918 million in equity, so NeoPhotonics no longer trades or operates as a separate company.
NeoPhotonics (now Lumentum) was founded in 1996 and is based in San Jose, California, United States. It is listed under Photonic Computing.
Compute Technologies
- Optical Components
- Coherent Modules
What NeoPhotonics (now Lumentum) works on
Photonic Computing
Photonic computing uses light instead of electricity to carry or process information. Photons have no charge, so light in a waveguide does not cause the resistive heating that current in a wire does, though lasers and modulators still use power, and many wavelengths can share one waveguide. The industry has two quite different parts: moving data with light, and computing with light.
Also in United States
II-VI/Finisar (now Coherent), Celestial AI, Lightwave Logic, Inphi (now Marvell), Lumentum
