Gazettabyte – Enabling coherent optics down to 2km short-reach links
By Acacia Communications | Posted on January 24, 2018
Acacia Communications made headlines in May after completing an initial public offering (IPO), raising approximately $105 million for the company. Technology company IPOs have become a rarity and are not always successful. On its first day of trading, Acacia’s shares opened at $29 per share and closed just under $31.
Although investors may not have understood the subtleties of silicon photonics or coherent DSP-ASICs for that matter, they noted that Acacia has been profitable since 2013. But as becomes clear in talking to Doerr, silicon photonics plays an important role in the company’s coherent transceiver design, and its full potential for coherent has still to be realised.