POET Technologies (NASDAQ:POET) is a Canadian developer of advanced photonic interconnect solutions, employing proprietary Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) technology and its Photonic Over Package (POP™) architecture to integrate optical and electronic components in compact, high-speed modules. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, the company designs and licenses a portfolio of silicon photonics and mixed-signal electronic circuits that support data transmission at speeds of 100G, 400G and beyond. By combining lasers, modulators and detectors on a single chip, POET aims to reduce power consumption, footprint and cost for optical communications in data centers, high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence applications.
Leveraging a fabless business model, POET collaborates with established semiconductor foundries, assembly and test partners to manufacture its photonic engines and transceiver modules. Its product suite includes optical engines, interposers and fully packaged transceivers, designed to plug into standard pluggable form factors such as QSFP and OSFP. The company also offers customization services to address specific customer requirements, supporting rapid prototyping and volume production for hyperscale cloud service providers, telecom carriers and enterprise networking firms.
Since its inception, POET Technologies has invested heavily in research and development, maintaining a multi-disciplinary team of optical engineers, circuit designers and software specialists. Under the leadership of President and CEO Walter Weigold, the company has expanded its intellectual property portfolio to encompass hundreds of patents and patents pending worldwide. Strategic partnerships with global foundries and assembly-and-test houses in North America and Asia have strengthened POET’s supply chain capabilities and accelerated time-to-market for its customers.
Serving markets across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, POET Technologies is focused on meeting the growing demand for high-bandwidth, energy-efficient optical interconnects in next-generation data infrastructure. The company’s scalable platform is positioned to support emerging trends such as 5G backhaul, edge computing and multi-petaflop supercomputing. POET Technologies trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol POET and continues to pursue collaborations with OEMs and research institutions to drive the adoption of silicon photonics worldwide.
