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Polaris Electro-Optics Inc. announced $50 million in new financing to bring its FenGlassâ„¢ electro-optic modulator platform to production. As AI workloads exponentially grow in the agentic era, data movement has become a crucial bottleneck in AI infrastructure. Not only are networks severely bandwidth-constrained, but energy consumption per bit is also unsustainable. To address these challenges, hyperscalers, neoclouds, and infrastructure providers are attempting to scale both the data rate per lane and the number of lanes. The next node requires 400 Gbps per lane and beyond to enable all applications from scale-up, scale-out, and scale-across to DCI.

Polaris Electro-Optics’ FenGlass platform is built to remove the trade-off between manufacturability, reliability, and bandwidth that plagues other next-generation modulator technologies.

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PolarisÌýElectro-Optics Inc. is a ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØÌýspinoutÌýthat uses a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal platform (FenGlassâ„¢) to deliver the highest-speed, most energy-efficient integrated photonics products for communications and computing applications. Polaris Electro-Optics Inc. was co-founded by Noel Clark,Ìýprofessor of distinction in physics at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ,Ìý, professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ, ,Ìýlecturer in physics at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØÌýandÌý, lecturer in physics at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ, together withÌý, a PhD alum of chemistry and the Soft Materials Research Center at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ and CTO of Polaris, andÌý.

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