High speed, low energy data transfer devices – whether within a chip, between chips or between servers, achieving high data transfer rates with minimal energy expenditure is becoming the primary bottleneck in the continued growth of large scale computing and storage that is critical for cloud computing data centers, next generation high performance computers, and “big data”. Etaphase enables optical data transfer devices with orders of magnitude higher speed, smaller size and lower power consumption than current devices.
For example, we are developing optical modulators that are 10 to 100 times smaller than other products on the market, with significantly lower power usage. Our devices can be manufacturing using typical high-volume CMOS industry processes and we have designed, built and tested functional optical components.