TOULOUSE, France, and CAMAS, Wash. -- IntexyS Photonics SA and Lightfleet(R) Corporation announced an arrangement to combine optical component technologies to deliver an integrated, high performance interconnect enabling continuously parallel communications in data- and performance-intensive computing, communications and embedded systems applications.

Shipping this year will be the patented Lightfleet Corowave(TM) interconnect, which uses multi-channel, broadcast light to transmit data through "free space," eliminating the need for fiber-optic cabling or copper wiring as conduits. The combination of optoelectronic receivers with laser transmitters creates multiple, simultaneous channels to achieve continuously parallel communications. The data-carrying light beams are spread through lenses, reflected from mirrors, crisscrossed in free space, and re-focused to the receivers. The result is a highly reliable, continuous transmission of data in multiple connections that include all of the nodes in a system.

Lightfleet is pioneering the innovative approach, employing modulated light as a high-bandwidth conduit to replace legacy, hard-wired bus technology that impedes today's heavier data flows in computing and communications systems.

IntexyS supplies the receivers used to capture and convert the broadcast light beams into electronic signals. In the smallest form factor on the market, the IntexyS Surface Mount Optical Devices (SMOD) provide the high reliability, high density and high data throughput required by Lightfleet for its patented, broadcast light technology and interconnect design.

"IntexyS high-precision optical receivers are critical components to enable the game-changing, performance improvements that the Corowave interconnect technology achieves in system communications," said Chris Kruell, VP of Marketing at Lightfleet. "We chose the IntexyS SMOD receiver in part because of its reliability and adaptability to the space, power, and environmental needs of the Corowave design."

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