Oxford Instruments and Coherent: driving 6 inch InP
Oxford Instruments, a provider of plasma processing solutions, has announced the key role it is playing to support the industry’s first fully automated 6-inch InP wafer fabrication capability for photonic devices, led by Coherent, a maker of compound semiconductors and optical networking solutions.
The fully automated, high-throughput, plasma processing equipment is central to Coherent’s ramping of 6-inch InP fabs in Sherman, Texas, and Järfälla, Sweden; fabs that will play a pivotal role in driving advancements in AI data centre, telecommunications, and sensing applications. This includes the transition from 800G to 1.6T products, a key requirement to meet the growing demands of AI interconnects and optical comms.
“We have been the leading supplier of InP plasma etch equipment to the datacom market, and Coherent, for many years, " said Matt Kelly, managing director of Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology. adding that his company's technology is ideally positioned to device demands of generative AI applications.
"Coherent’s move to 6-inch InP wafer fabrication marks a transformative milestone for the industry. Oxford Instruments’ expertise in plasma processing has been essential in enabling our Sherman and Järfälla fabs to reach world-class performance,” said Beck Mason, executive VP for semiconductor devices at Coherent.
