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▲ Advanced examining process ensures precision and quality in photonics manufacturing
display technologies, as smaller geometries and new materials call for tighter process control.“ These applications demand extreme precision, high throughput, and reliable, energy-efficient processes,” he adds. Coherent’ s US footprint anchors research, development, and customer collaboration. Sanjai notes that its American presence is critical for advanced R & D, highvalue manufacturing, and collaboration with key customers, especially in AI and datacenter ecosystems.
A carefully designed supply chain supports growth. Coherent expanded capacity in key materials such as indium phosphide and maintains multi-site manufacturing with diversified suppliers.
Platforms for growth
Coherent’ s trajectory starts with platform technologies that extend across markets.
By investing in core materials and device architectures, the company can apply the same building blocks to different applications.“ Such an approach allows us to innovate efficiently by investing in core technologies that scale across multiple markets,” Sanjai explains. This platform approach also supports entry into emerging areas.“ Over time, areas like fusion and quantum technologies will expand the role of photonics further,” he predicts.“ Technologies developed for the industrial market, such as thermal management, are becoming increasingly important in AI datacenters. This ability to translate innovation across verticals is a key differentiator for us,” he adds.
Demand for data infrastructure keeps growing, changing system design in the process.“ We already see optical links moving closer to the chip and inside the rack in datacenters,” Sanjai observes. Coherent
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