Enablence Technologies Inc. announced a strategic partnership designed to substantially ramp production of Enablence's planar lightwave products at its Fremont, California wafer fab. Enablence and Noel Technologies are making investments in etching, lithography and deposition processing technologies designed to increase production of Enablence's planar lightwave circuits (PLCs). PLC demand has skyrocketed recently, driven by bourgeoning demand for data center and advanced vision applications where small footprint, performance, high efficiency optical solutions provide major benefits over more expensive and limiting technologies.

With a roadmap fully established, Enablence's planar light wave circuit (PLC) technology provides a higher volume of optical component integration in an ever-decreasing footprint, offering lower cost, lower power, higher-capacity advantages for systems using wavelength-division multiplexing and coherent sensing applications.