The additional perspective to keep in find here Rainer as stated by Suresh at the THM and from your blog post shortly afterwards:

Silicon cannot lase

Of course photonic integration is not an invention of POET Technologies. Other companies are also on it, for example with the highly successful Silicon Photonics technology. However, Silicon Photonics is missing something important, which I mentioned already: the light source. Silicon, the foundation of Silicon Photonics, cannot lase, it cannot produce laser light.

That could be beneficial for POET Technologies in two respects, Venkatesan explains: „The good thing about Silicon Photonics and indium phosphide is every Silicon Photonics chip requires an indium phosphide laser. It puts us in a really good growth position even from that perspective, because we’re a laser provider. We can provide into the Silicon Photonics industry while, at the same time, making our own integrated chip to compete for those same pockets. It gives us kind of a foot in both camps, if you will, in terms of integration.“