Guide
Very Large Scale Photonics light engine family that puts hundreds of lasers on one foundry-made chip to supply the multi-wavelength light co-packaged optics need in AI data centres: Guide 1, a 16-wavelength DWDM source, and the liquid-cooled 64-laser Guide DR.
What it does
- Optical I/O
Sources
- Pricing
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Guide, Guide 1 and Guide DR pages read: no price, plan or rate is published; the routes are "Request evaluation kit" and "Request information".
- Description
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Company disclosure · 11 Oct 2026
"Guide® redefines how we build the light sources that power co-packaged optics (CPO)."; "Hundreds of lasers and photonics components on a single chip."; "We've taken the laser out of the assembly line and put it into the foundry." Guide 1: "16λ DWDM centered at 1310 nm". Guide DR: "the industry's first liquid-cooled, high-density Light Engine", "64 Lasers".
- What it does
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Company disclosure · 11 Oct 2026
"Designed to fuel the most demanding AI fabrics, Guide 1 consolidates massive optical power"; family page: "delivering the optical output needed for AI-scale networks."
- Sold within
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Read the Guide, Guide 1 and Guide DR pages and the Products overview: they name the product family and an early access program but state no purchasing or packaging route.
- Name
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Company disclosure · 11 Oct 2026
H1 "Guide"; "Explore the Guide product family" (Guide 1, Guide DR).
- URL
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Company disclosure · 11 Oct 2026
Own product page, titled "Guide - Very Large Scale Photonic Light Engine for AI - Lightmatter®"; Products menu: "Guide VLSP Light Engine".
- Deployment
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Company disclosure · 11 Oct 2026
A laser module installed in the buyer's own systems: "Cooling compatibility: Air, cold plate, or immersion cooling".
- Intended for
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Company disclosure · 11 Oct 2026
Built for "the AI data centers" and their optical networks.
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3D photonic interconnect family for AI clusters built on an edgeless I/O architecture: Passage L200 stacks the photonic engine on the electronic chip for 32-64 Tbps of co-packaged optical I/O, Passage L20 is a 6.4 Tbps-per-direction near-packaged module, and M1000, EVK100 and EVK50 are reference platforms for early-access partners.
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