Veeco Instruments Inc. announced that a global leader in optical communications laser manufacturing placed orders for multiple Lumina® Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) systems and multiple Spector® Ion Beam Sputtering (IBD) Optical Coating systems. These tools will be used to fabricate indium phosphide (InP) lasers for innovative optical communication solutions in the datacom industry. This order establishes Lumina as the customer?s production tool of record for InP epitaxy, while the Spector systems are used to deposit high-quality optical coatings on laser diode facets. Optical transceivers are high-speed devices that convert electrical signals into optical signals and are essential for connecting AI servers and handling massive data flows with low latency.

The transceiver market is poised to continue its rapid growth over the next several years, in step with record capital deployment by the world?s leading hyperscalers.