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.

[2] 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, Eli Yablonovitch, Alex Dickinson and Lawrence C Gunn.

[3] In 2006, the company received a $5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

[5] In 2010, Luxtera was selected as one of MIT Technology Review's 50 Most Innovative Companies.

[8][9] The company's cables used silicon photonics technology to send photonic data from their cables directly to semiconductors without first converting the data into electrical signals.