Artilux, a provider of germanium-silicon photonics technology and a developer of CMOS-based SWIR optical sensing, imaging, and communication, has entered into a collaboration with VisEra Technologies. The partnership combines Artilux’s core GeSi technology with VisEra’s advanced CMOS processing capabilities to enable the fabrication of metalenses on a 12-in silicon substrate. According to the partners, the demonstrated mass-production-ready metalens technology significantly enhances optical system performance, production efficiency, and yield rates, supporting SWIR wavelengths. Additionally, the technology provides increased optical coupling efficiency, which enables versatile solutions for AI applications in optical sensing, imaging, and communication while catering to a broad range of industries, including wearable, biomedical, lidar, mixed reality, aerospace, and defense.
