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OFC 2026: Headwinds Are Good For Takeoff

Frank Smyth — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:48:46 GMT

CTO Frank Smyth and colleagues were at Los Angeles last week to attend and exhibit at Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC). Here are his thoughts and analysis of the latest market innovations in datacenters.

Shining A Spotlight On......Gavin King

Pilot Photonics & Gavin King — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:30:00 GMT

This edition of our 'Shining a Spotlight on...' blogs introduces Pilot's Operations Manager, Gavin King.

Unlocking Optical Parallelism for the Everything Over Optical™ era

Frank Smyth — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:54:11 GMT

Pilot Photonics' Hybrid Laser Breakthrough

As the demand for AI acceleration, cloud computing, and disaggregated architectures intensifies, traditional copper interconnects are reaching physical limitations. At Pilot Photonics, we're heralding the Everything over Optical™ era by addressing a critical bottleneck in data scaling: the need for high-power, multi-wavelength optical sources.

COCOPOP: Coherent Comb for Co-Packaged Optics for AI/ML Datacentres

Dr Desi Gutierrez — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:27:51 GMT

At Pilot Photonics, we are contributing to one of the key challenges in AI: How do we continue to scale datacentre capacity and processing power, while reducing the energy required.

Shining A Spotlight On......Chris McGuinness

Pilot Photonics & Chris McGuinness — Thu, 15 May 2025 16:05:11 GMT

Pilot Photonics' Photonics Engineer, Chris McGuinness, is featured in this month's 'Shining a Spotlight on...' blog.

AI Datacentre the size of a city?

Pilot Photonics — Thu, 08 May 2025 14:47:58 GMT

Now that the dust has settled after OFC here are some of our thoughts and take-aways:

Shining A Spotlight On......Cristian Vargas

Pilot Photonics & Cristian Vargas — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:37:49 GMT

In the next of our 'Shining a Spotlight on...' blogs we introduce Cristian Vargas, Pilot's Photonics Test & Automation Engineer...

Where's home to you?

Home for me is Colombia, which is where I obtained my BSc in Electronic Engineering before moving to Aston University for my MSc in Photonics Integrated Circuits, Sensors, and Networks.

Shining A Spotlight On......Shane Duggan

Pilot Photonics & Shane Duggan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:14:28 GMT

The second of our 'Shining a Spotlight on...' blogs introduces Dr Shane Duggan, Pilot's Principal PIC Design Engineer

Shining A Spotlight On...Mahrokh Avazpour

info@pilotphotonics.com (Pilot Photonics & Marokh Avazpour) — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:30:00 GMT

Welcome to the first of our 'Shining a Spotlight on...' blogs as we introduce you to our team. This blog features postdoctoral intern, Mahrokh Avazpour, as she reaches the end of her secondment and reflects on her time at Pilot.

Enabling the Next Generation of Space Communication, Observation and Science

Pilot Photonics — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:42:32 GMT

In February 2025 Pilot Photonics attended the Paris Space Week for the first time, exhibiting as part of the Irish Pavilion. Our application to participate in the PSW Innovation Challenge was accepted, and CTO and Co-Founder of Pilot, Frank Smyth delivered a presentation entitled 'Astro-FG^TM: Agile Optical Frequency Generator' to a panel of judges. At the awards ceremony later the same day, we learnt that we had won the Innovation Challenge, with an award presented by Colonel Noël Farnaud. Needless to say, we're thrilled and proud to receive this recognition of our innovation in space communications, observation and science.

Pilot Photonics' Co-Founder and CTO being presented with the PSW Innovation Challenge

Award by Colonel Noël Farnaud from the French Space Command