NEWS & EVENTS

Pilot Photonics presents the COCOPOP ExCELS at the Open Compute Project EMEA Summit 

21st May 2024

Frank Smyth, CTO, presented 'Unlocking Optical Parallelism: High-Power, Multi-Wavelength Lasers for AI and Cloud Scaling', where he discussed how the ExCELS can address and future-proof AI datacenters to face the scaling challenges faced by copper interconnects.

Pilot Photonics Accelerates Optical Connectivity for AI Datacentres with 16-Channel O-Band Lasers 

28th March 2025

Pilot Photonics, a leader in advanced laser solutions for high-speed optical interconnects, today announced the launch of its first O-band laser products designed to support the growing demand for scalable, parallel optics in datacentres and AI systems. 

Pilot Photonics is awarded the MTU Industry Collaboration Award.  

21st May 2024

Pilot Photonics' CEO, William Oppermann, received the award at MTU from Dr. Siobhán Mac Sweeney, Head of Research. Through collaborating with Dr. William Whelan-Curtin and his team at MTU, Pilot Photonics is developing a novel SiN comb laser for the COCOPOP project, specifically designed to target datacentre and AI/ML applications. A patent has already been filed to protect the technology and this will be a very valuable asset for the company.

COCOPOP Kick-off Meeting 

1st April 2024

Pilot Photonics held the COCOPOP kick-off meeting where the project was reviewed in detail. The technical objectives were presented, together with the deliverables, milestones and project timeline. The current status of the technical development was discussed together with a technical, business and communication plan for the first year. 

Pilot Photonics secures large European funding win to develop key technologies for CPO scaling

25th March 2024

Pilot Photonics announced that the company has secured €2.5M from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to develop, integrate and commercialize key technology blocks relevant to a coherent co-packaged optics (CPO) solution to overcome future scaling challenges in the datacentre.

A coherent roadmap for co-packaged optics 

24th March 2024

Is coherent optics how co-packaged will continue to scale? Pilot Photonics certainly thinks so.

In this interview, Frank Smyth, CTO and founder of Pilot Photonics, talks about the latest developments, enabling technologies and roadmap and vision for this market, recently funded by the EIC COCOPOP project.