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WHY AXALUME?

IT’S ALL IN THE TEAM

  • We are photonics pioneers: 500+ papers, 30,000 citations, 200+ patents, and advanced products.
  • We do real work: creating lasers, photonic integrated circuits, and electronic driver/receiver chipsets to empower our customers.
  • We are an ace team with world records in energy-efficient photonic links.
  • First to deliver an all-optically interconnected networking platform to market.

Ashok Krishnamoorthy

(CEO)

Formerly Chief Technologist, Photonics at Oracle. Previously Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Founder and CEO of AraLight, a Bell Laboratories VCSEL technology spinoff.

Former Lucent Technologies entrepreneur-in-residence; advisor and board member for multiple photonic startups; advisory board member to SEED-stage venture-capital fund.

Winner of the ICO Prize from the International Commission of Optics.

Abe Yayla

(VP, IC Design)

Co-founder and former VP Engineering of Innocomm Wirelesss, low-power Bluetooth chips, sold to National Semi. Co-founder of Analog Circuit Technologies and DevaCell.

Senior engineering positions at Cypress Semi, Rockwell, and PCSI with over 20 large-scale analog and mixed–signal ICs designs sent to production. Expert consultant to multiple Fortune 500 semiconductor companies.

Shimon Muller

(Chief Architect)

Formerly Distinguished Engineer and Architect at Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Chief Architect for multiple generations of Infiniband and Ethernet networking products at Sun Microsystems and Oracle Networking group.

Over 25 years of experience in switching and networking ASIC and system design. Extensive contributions to IEEE networking architecture and standards from 100Mb/s to 100Gb/s.

  • THE PROBLEM

Communicating data electrically out of server and network chips is unsustainable. Physics limits bandwidth, which will strangle current data center designs.
That’s where photonics come in…

PHOTONS are the best choice for fast communications, especially at high-data transfer rates and over distance. Our intimately-integrated electronic and photonic chips will enable data communication links with breakthrough density and power efficiency.

Photonics unlocks modern data centers – making them faster, denser, more energy efficient, and lower-cost.

Communicating data electrically out of server and network chips is unsustainable. Physics limits bandwidth, which will strangle current data center designs.
That’s where photonics come in…

PHOTONS are the best choice for fast communications, especially at high-data transfer rates and over distance. Our intimately-integrated electronic and photonic chips will enable data communication links with breakthrough density and power efficiency.

Photonics unlocks modern data centers – making them faster, denser, more energy efficient, and lower-cost.

Photonics unlocks modern data centers – making them faster, denser, more energy efficient, and lower-cost.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

FASTER

Electrical channels have frequency-dependent loss and skin-effect related loss, that throttles bandwidth and suppresses data rates – even in small hops – like from a chip to the edge of the board.

FASTER

Electrical channels have frequency-dependent loss and skin-effect related loss, that throttles bandwidth and suppresses data rates – even in small hops – like from a chip to the edge of the board.

INTEGRATED

Our co-integrated photonics removes this limitation and enables lightspeed communications directly from electronic switching and computing chips.

INTEGRATED

Our co-integrated photonics removes this limitation and enables lightspeed communications directly from electronic switching and computing chips.

SPACE EFFICIENT

A large portion of data-center footprint goes to modules whose sole purpose is to convert data from electrical domain to optical domain. Axalume’s technology reduces and, in some cases, entirely eliminates these modules and chipsets.

SPACE EFFICIENT

A large portion of data-center footprint goes to modules whose sole purpose is to convert data from electrical domain to optical domain. Axalume’s technology reduces and, in some cases, entirely eliminates these modules and chipsets.

ENERGY EFFICIENT

And while we’re at it, we are saving energy as well. How much energy? About 70%. Most of the power in an optical link is wasted getting the data to optical modules at the beginning and end of the link. Axalume eliminates this waste, by intimate co-integration of photonics with the chips.

ENERGY EFFICIENT

And while we’re at it, we are saving energy as well. How much energy? About 70%. Most of the power in an optical link is wasted getting the data to optical modules at the beginning and end of the link. Axalume eliminates this waste, by intimate co-integration of photonics with the chips.

LOWER COST

Using silicon for photonic integration is the key to sustaining bandwidth growth and reducing cost per bit. Axalume enables lower costs at higher speeds through more closely integrated optics and electronics and by eliminating redundant electrical/optical conversion steps.

LOWER COST

Using silicon for photonic integration is the key to sustaining bandwidth growth and reducing cost per bit. Axalume enables lower costs at higher speeds through more closely integrated optics and electronics and by eliminating redundant electrical/optical conversion steps.

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