Details

Last Funding Type

Series A

Last Funding Money Raised

$11M

Industries

Infrastructure,Semiconductor,Telecommunications

Founded date

Jan 1, 2000

Number Of Employee

1 - 10

Operating Status

Active

Confluent Photonics Corporation is developing passive and active DWDM optical components for the telecommunications industry based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) semiconductor fabrication techniques. The use of SOI along with the CMOS fabrication infrastructure developed to process SOI enables cost-effective high volume optical telecom component solutions for the access, metropolitan and long haul telecom markets. The compatibility of Confluent optical designs and manufacturing techniques with CMOS fabrication also provides a pathway for the future integration of optics and electronics on the same telecommunications chip.

Current optical telecommunication product technologies and designs result in miniaturized optical lab benches lacking thermal and mechanical robustness. In contrast, Confluent is designing and fabricating Telcordia-compliant optical chip components for the automated manufacture of integrated optical circuits. These components are designed to be insensitive to their environment. Using semiconductor-manufacturing techniques provides built in optical alignment, high volume production and low cost.