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Featured PostFebruary 10, 2026

EMLs: The Unsung Heroes Powering AI's Digital Arteries

In the high-stakes world of artificial intelligence and cloud computing, where milliseconds matter and petabytes of data flow continuously, there's a critical technology that rarely makes headlines: the Electro-absorption Modulated Laser, or EML. Like arteries pumping lifeblood through the human body, EMLs drive optical pathways, moving information at the speed of light between compute nodes,…

Deepak Shivaprasad

Why Power, Not Compute, Limits AI Scaling

AI data centers are scaling at an unprecedented pace, but the constraints shaping that growth are changing. While GPUs and accelerators continue to advance rapidly, <strong>power delivery, power efficiency, and heat dissipation increasingly define how far and how fast AI clusters can scale</strong>.

Christian Urricariet

January 30, 2026

Lumentum: Illuminating the Networks of Tomorrow

I am thrilled to share the launch of our newly modernized Lumentum company website. It’s cleaner, faster, and designed to make it easier than ever to…

Rafik Ward

December 15, 2025

Optical Circuit Switches in AI Hyperscale Data Centers – The MEMS Advantage

Optical circuit switching (OCS) is drawing intense interest when it comes to improving data center networking (DCN) in AI hyperscale environments, where efficient workload processing hinges upon massive parallelism, real-time data movement, and ultra-low latency networking. OCS was a leading topic of conversation at the recent ECOC Conference and Exhibition where we announced our new OCS R64 platform, the second member of the OCS family after the <a href="https://www.lumentum.com/en/media-room/news-releases/lumentum-optical-circuit-switch-improve-next-generation-ai-data-center">R300</a> which we introduced earlier this year at OFC in San Francisco.

Sheldon McLaughlin

November 19, 2025

Enabling the Future of AI: Innovation for Next-Generation Data Centers

As demand for artificial intelligence, ubiquitous cloud computing, and other emerging data-intensive applications continues to surge, the need for larger and more energy-efficient data centers has become increasingly critical. Meeting this demand requires a leap in infrastructure— and Lumentum is at the forefront of this leap with its various next-generation photonic technologies and products.

Christian Urricariet

September 3, 2025

Transmit. Receive. Amplify. Switch.

Lumentum is a company that is built on 40+ years of heritage as a pioneer and ground breaker in optics and photonics. At the root of this heritage has always been our products. We focus on reliability, and we focus on performance.

Rafik Ward

August 13, 2025