Luxtera

Luxtera Inc., a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, is a semiconductor company that uses silicon photonics technology to build complex electro-optical systems in a production silicon CMOS process.
The company uses fabless manufacturing; it uses semiconductor fabrication plants of Freescale Semiconductor. 
The company received $130 million in funding and was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2019 for $660 million. 
History.
The company was founded in 2001 by a group of professors and students at California Institute of Technology including Axel Scherer, Michael Hochberg, Tom Baehr-Jones, and Eli Yablonovitch.
In 2006, the company received a $5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
In August 2007, the company introduced Blazar, a 40GB optical active cable for interconnect within high performance computer clusters using single-mode optical fiber.
In 2010, Luxtera was selected as one of MIT Technology Review's 50 Most Innovative Companies.
In February 2019, Cisco Systems acquired the company.