Veeco Lands LUMINA+ MOCVD System Order to Support InP Laser Manufacturing

Veeco Instruments announced that its LUMINA+MOCVD system has been selected by leading global optical and photonics technology companies for the production and manufacturing of InP lasers, to support the development of innovative communication solutions in the field of data communication. The system now fully covers all mainstream application scenarios of arsenide and phosphide epitaxy, and deeply enters the rapidly growing InP laser market.

“Following a series of recent orders and qualifications, this order extends the strong position of our LUMINA+ system for high-volume As/P production,” said Anil Vijayendran, Vice President of MOCVD Products at Veeco. “Offering the same great process performance as the original LUMINA system, the LUMINA+ system achieves breakthrough productivity, bringing much-needed scale to the optical transceiver industry.”

The fully automated LUMINA+ system has the largest As/P batch size in the MOCVD market, best-in-class throughput and lowest cost per wafer supported by Veeco’s TurboDisc® technology. This makes it the ideal choice for expanding InP laser production capacity. With a seamless wafer-size transition, LUMINA+ can deposit high-quality epitaxial layers on InP wafers of any size.

Optical transceivers are high-speed devices that convert electrical signals into optical signals. They are essential for handling massive data flows with low latency by connecting AI servers across racks inside a data center (scale-out), within racks as a replacement for copper connections (scale-up), and across multiple data center facilities (scale-across).

According to LightCounting, a market research firm, sales of optical transceivers and related products are expected to reach $39 billion in 2026, up 53% from 2025. The optical transceiver market is expected to continue this rapid growth over the next several years, driven by record capital deployment by the world’s leading hyperscalers and the shift in demand from training toward inference and agentic AI workloads. As major optical component manufacturers continue to build out InP laser capacity to meet this increasing demand, the LUMINA+ system positions Veeco as a key MOCVD epitaxy supplier to support this expansion.

Source: compoundsemiconductor