OCP Global Summit 2026: Vuzix to Showcase Vuzix Causeway Optical Interconnect Evaluation Platform

Vuzix Corporation, a supplier of AI-powered smart glasses, waveguides and advanced optical components, announced that it participated in the 2026 OCP Global Summit, October 12–15 in San Jose, California, and will participate in the PECC Summit, October 20–21 in Sunnyvale, California.Vuzix will host meetings to review its Vuzix Causeway waveguide optical interconnect evaluation platform and discuss evaluation opportunities with AI data center, semiconductor, photonics and advanced packaging companies.

Vuzix Causeway applies proprietary waveguide technology to route thousands of parallel optical pathways through a compact substrate, offering a new approach to high-density optical connectivity for co-packaged optics (CPO), near-package optics (NPO) and AI computing. The current evaluation platform has demonstrated 19,200 parallel optical pathways across an approximately 30 mm optical path. Future communications implementations are projected to support multi-terabit aggregate bandwidth, subject to source, detector and system integration performance. Vuzix Causeway waveguide structures can be tailored to source wavelength and illumination approach for custom architectures using microLED or VCSEL sources.

Vuzix is making Vuzix Causeway evaluation units available to qualified industry partners to characterize optical performance and assess integration requirements. Engineers can evaluate optical loss, crosstalk, channel density, and coupling and alignment. These evaluations are intended to inform potential custom optical designs and future manufacturing opportunities, drawing on Vuzix’s existing waveguide design and US-based production capabilities.

“AI infrastructure needs to move more data with greater efficiency and density. Vuzix Causeway gives industry partners a practical platform to evaluate waveguide-based optical routing for those requirements,” said Paul Travers, president and CEO, Vuzix. “We bring nearly two decades of waveguide development, custom optical design and high-precision nanoimprint replication to this opportunity. Our goal is to help partners move from evaluation toward custom optical interconnect designs that can be manufactured at our Rochester, New York facility.”

Following OCP, Vuzix will participate in the PECC Summit – Optica+APC Photonic-Enabled Cloud Computing Summit, October 20-21 at the HPE Aspiration Dome in Sunnyvale, California. The event brings together leaders from across the photonics supply chain to address optics deployment in AI and cloud infrastructure, including optical interconnects, packaging, manufacturing and scale-up challenges. Both events provide opportunities for Vuzix to discuss partner evaluation needs and potential integration paths for Vuzix Causeway.