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Co-packaged optics offer massive energy savings
May 2026
An early access article from the Journal of Lightwave Technology shows that moving to co-package optics can save 18% and 36% in switch power consumption compared to standard pluggable and DSP-based transceiver architectures, respectively.
Read moreGlobalFoundries brings co-packaged optics mainstream
May 2026
As Lightcom's go-to silicon photonics platform, GlobalFoundries has announced an optical module solution for co-packaged optics allowing for the accelerated adoption of optical scale-up interconnects for next-generation AI infrastructure.
Read moreFrom the lab to the rack: Lightcom's institutional roots
December 2025
Lightcom is formed based on years of research and development from the Electronic Photonic Microsystems Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Our focus is on high-speed, energy efficient communication and compute systems that provide record-breaking performance increases for AI systems.
Towards reconfigurable and scalable photonic processors
April 2025
Building on previous photonic processor work, the Electronic Photonic Microsystems Lab monolithically integrates a reconfigurable, trainable optical nonlinear activation function for scalable silicon photonic deep neural networks.
Read moreA photonic processor for sub-nanosecond image classification
June 2022
Research from the Electronic Photonic Microsystems Lab demonstrates sub-nanosecond image classification through direct processing of optical waves. This first-of-its-kind work is published in Nature and paves the way for faster and more energy efficient neural networks for the next generations of deep learning systems.
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