headquarters carlsbad ca products blazar website www.luxtera.com luxtera inc. founded in 2001 is based in carlsbad california . luxtera is a fabless semiconductor company that is using silicon photonics 1 technology to build complex electro optical systems in a production silicon cmos process . it is the first company on the market with a product that monolithically incorporates active optics for data communications manufactured with low cost silicon based chip processing . 2 this class of technology also being aggressively developed by large companies such as intel and ibm is widely predicted to displace large portions of the existing photonics industry that rely on discrete assemblies of electronic and photonic devices . 3 luxtera s partners include freescale semiconductor fabricates luxtera s chips . luxtera is a caltech spin out with funding from venture capital its business partners and darpa . 4 it was founded by a number of members of prof. axel scherer s lab group including cary lawrence gunn michael hochberg tom baehr jones and also axel scherer . other co founders include prof. eli yablonovitch and john oxaal . in 2010 luxtera was selected as one of mit technology review s 50 most innovative companies . 5 blazar edit in august 2007 luxtera announced the availability of blazar a 40gb optical active cable for interconnect within high performance computer clusters using single mode fiber . 6 references edit silicon photonics rp photonics . fiber optics optical transceiver goes where copper can not . laser focus world . 2007 09 01 . retrieved 2008 01 02 . silicon photonics comes to market mit technology review august 2007 . darpa renews luxtera s transceiver contract ee times november 8 2006 . technology review s 50 most innovative companies . mit technology review . 2010 . retrieved 23 february 2010 . active cables extend reach 3x ee times november 12 2007 . external links edit luxtera homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title luxtera & oldid 696051824 categories fabless semiconductor companiesconsumer electronicselectronics companies of the united stateselectrical connectorscompanies based in carlsbad californiahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 december 2015 at 16 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view