Just listening to one of the presentations from the most recent World Technology Mapping Forums:

Integrated Photonics, On-Board Optical Interconnections.

https://vimeo.com/277981300

They have identified the biggest gap as “Optical interfaces degrade performance and increase costs”. Explained…every time we have to make a connection between an optical component and a waveguide or an optical component and a fiber those interfaces are degrading performance.

We need something the same as a copper connection.

As easy to make without the alignment requirements is low cost and has low insertion loss.

It is interesting that Suresh is now really focusing on delivering a technical overview of the Optical Interposer Platform that addresses the gap that this group have identified.