Furukawa Electric

Japanese electrical and optical company — developer of VCSEL-based co-packaged optics transceivers for AI datacenter scale-up interconnects. Demonstrated record 3.95 pJ/bit link energy over 2 km using 1060 nm VCSELs and 19-core multi-core fiber.

Overview

Furukawa Electric is a Japanese optical and electrical company advancing VCSEL-based co-packaged optics for energy-efficient AI datacenter interconnects. The company has demonstrated record-setting link energy of 3.95 pJ/bit over 2 km, roughly half the energy consumption of competing silicon photonics approaches.