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POET Technologies — papers and conferences

Updated: 2026-04-29 Status: ✓ ECOC 2025 entries verified via POET press release. OFC entries inferred from POET press releases referencing OFC participation. Earlier publications less systematically catalogued; deferred for follow-up audit. Cross-references: Patents · Platform overview · Optical interconnect roadmap

1. Approach

POET communicates technical progress through three primary channels:

  1. Press releases and corporate blog posts — dominant cadence; richer in product framing than peer-reviewed venues
  2. Conference papers and product-focus sessions at OFC, ECOC, IPC (IEEE Photonics Conference), and SPIE Photonics West — peer-reviewed and program-listed; more conservative claims
  3. Management interviews and trade-press coverage — Photonics Spectra, Photonics Online, Compound Semiconductor, Semiconductor Today, AGORACOM, Sherwood News

This file indexes the second channel — the conference and peer-reviewed presence — with explicit URLs to program pages or company-issued press releases that carry the program-page detail. Press releases (channel 1) and trade-press coverage (channel 3) are catalogued in customers, partners, and the corresponding deal-specific files.

2. ECOC — European Conference on Optical Communication

2.1 ECOC 2025 (Copenhagen, 2025-09-28 to 2025-10-02)

POET disclosed its ECOC 2025 participation in press release dated 2025-09-23 ✓.

Three industry events featuring CRO Raju Kankipati:

  1. Market Focus panel: “The Challenges of Co-Packaged Optics” ✓
  2. Product Focus discussion: “POET Teralight: Cost- and Performance-optimized Optical Engines for 1.6T Networks” ✓
  3. Technical paper presentation: “Hybrid Integrated 1.6T 2xFR4 Transmitter PIC using a CMOS-based Optical Interposer” ✓

Award: “Most Innovative Chip-scale Packaging / Optical Sub-Assembly Product” ✓ (Award announcement)

The technical paper is the primary peer-reviewed companion document to the 1.6T 2xFR4 transmitter PIC blog post and is cited extensively in Platform overview §1 and Optical interconnect roadmap §2.3.

⚠ The ECOC 2025 conference proceedings DOI / IEEE-Xplore record was not separately fetched in this audit. Follow-up task: pull the proceedings entry for the Kankipati paper and record the DOI.

2.2 Earlier ECOC participation

⚠ POET has appeared at multiple prior ECOC editions (2022, 2023, 2024 likely), but a systematic year-by-year inventory is not yet built. Suggested follow-up: search ECOC archive program pages for “POET” or “Optical Interposer” appearances. Confidence flag: ⚠ inferred until catalogued.

3. OFC — Optical Fiber Communication Conference

3.1 OFC 2025 (San Francisco, March 2025) and OFC 2026 (San Diego, March 2026)

POET issued press releases referencing OFC participation:

⚠ Specific OFC paper / tutorial / demonstration program entries are not yet catalogued. Follow-up: pull OFC archive at https://www.ofcconference.org/ and search for POET appearances 2022–2026.

3.2 OFC participation cadence (inferred)

POET has consistently appeared at OFC as an exhibitor and demonstrator since at least 2018. The press releases referencing demonstration of “cutting-edge light source and industry-leading 1.6T optical engines” indicate OFC remains the primary US-based commercial-introduction venue for POET. ⚠ Year-by-year inventory deferred.

4. IPC — IEEE Photonics Conference

⚠ POET technical staff likely have appeared at IPC editions as authors or co-authors, particularly during the SilTerra-and-Almae collaboration era (2018–2020) and the post-pivot 2021–2025 period. Specific paper records not yet pulled in this audit. Follow-up: query IEEE Xplore for assignee / author = “POET Technologies” or “Suresh Venkatesan” with conference filter for IPC.

5. SPIE Photonics West

⚠ POET appearances at SPIE Photonics West (San Francisco, January annually) likely include exhibition, conference paper, or panel participation. Specific catalogue not yet built. Follow-up: query SPIE Digital Library for POET / Optical Interposer / Suresh Venkatesan.

6. Author / co-author profile

6.1 Dr. Suresh Venkatesan — Chairman & CEO

Per POET about-us page and Photonics Spectra contributor profile ✓:

  • BTech Electrical Engineering, IIT (Indian Institute of Technology)
  • MS Electrical Engineering, Purdue University
  • PhD, Purdue University (Elmore Family School of ECE) — alumni profile at Purdue ECE
  • Career: Motorola → Freescale (CMOS Platform Development, Engineering Director Thoughtbeam) → GlobalFoundries (VP Technology and Integration, joined 2010) → POET (joined as CEO)
  • Holds >25 US patents (per Photonics Spectra profile) ✓
  • Co-author >50 technical papers ✓
  • Three high-impact technology awards from Motorola; SABA inductee 2004; Freescale Fellow nomination
  • Recipient of Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer (Purdue, 2017)

Venkatesan’s >25 personal patents and >50 papers are spread across his Motorola / Freescale / GlobalFoundries / POET career. The fraction directly assigned to POET is a subset of POET’s 72-issued portfolio. ⚠ Specific assignment split not separately verified.

6.2 Raju Kankipati — Chief Revenue Officer

Per POET ECOC 2025 schedule, Kankipati was the lead presenter at all three POET sessions at ECOC 2025. ✓

6.3 Other technical staff

⚠ A systematic technical-staff roster with paper / patent attribution is not yet built. The POET LinkedIn and POET about-us page list senior leadership; the technical-staff layer below VP is not publicly indexed in detail. Follow-up audit task.

7. Award and recognition timeline

YearVenue / awardRecognitionSource
2024-06AI Breakthrough Awards”Best Optical AI Solution”POET press release 2024-06-26 ✓
2024Merit Awards”AI Innovator of the Year” Gold PrizePOET press release ✓
2025-09ECOC 2025”Most Innovative Chip-scale Packaging / Optical Sub-Assembly Product”POET press release ✓
2025-2026China product-innovation award1.6T AI optical engine + individual technology recognitionPOET press release ◐

8. Forward conference calendar

The next 12-month conference window where POET is expected to disclose technical detail:

ConferenceDateLocationExpected POET activity
SPIE Photonics West 2026Late January 2026San Francisco⚠ Likely exhibitor / demo (no public confirmation)
OFC 2026March 2026San Diego⚠ Likely demonstrator / exhibitor (no public confirmation)
IEEE 802.3 + OIF interim meetingsSpring/summer 2026Various⚠ Indirect via partner companies
ECOC 2026September 2026TBD (rotating European venue)⚠ Likely repeat appearance given 2025 award

The most likely catalyst-relevant event is OFC 2026 for the first public demonstration of the QCi 3.2 Tbps optical engine and the Sivers ELS prototype, both targeted for H1 2026 demonstration per their respective collaboration releases.

9. Forward audit task list

  1. Pull ECOC 2025 proceedings DOI for the Kankipati 1.6T 2xFR4 paper ⚠
  2. Catalogue OFC 2018–2026 POET paper appearances by querying OFC program archive ⚠
  3. Catalogue ECOC 2018–2024 POET appearances by querying ECOC archive ⚠
  4. Build IPC / SPIE Photonics West / IEEE Xplore inventory for POET technical staff publications ⚠
  5. Map technical staff (below VP) by publication record to identify rising lead authors ⚠
  6. Identify SPIE Photonics West 2026 program entries when the program is published (typically December 2025) ⚠

10. Cross-references

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