On the same day and at the same wavelength, Lumentum said OM3 and OM4 can't be used at 1060nm, while Berxel ran 100 meters of OM3. The number that really matters from this talk is ±22 µm: it downgrades optical packaging from precision alignment to simply placing the part.

VCSELs evolve again. At OFC 2026, Berxel Photonics revealed a back-emitting VCSEL with an integrated metalens, overcoming thermal and alignment challenges in a 1.6 Tbps array demo and sketching a new blueprint for short-reach AI interconnect.