October 25, 2011
Oclaro Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR) says it has begun shipping its MI 5000XM 40-Gbps coherent modules in volume. Company sources also tell Lightwave that 100-Gbps versions are on track for release early next year.
October 24, 2011
Oclaro, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR) says it has begun sampling a pair of new high-power pump lasers. The first is a 500-mW uncooled 980-nm pump laser; the second is a 2x600-mW dual-chip pump in a single package.
October 24, 2011
Finisar Corp. (NASDAQ: FNSR) has unveiled new versions of its WaveShaper Programmable Optical Processor. The WaveShaper 1000S/X and 4000S/X offer an extended wavelength range covering both the C- and the L-Band in a single instrument. The new WaveShaper members have been designed for system testing of reconfigurable optical networks as well as for laser pulse shaping in metrology and medical systems.
October 24, 2011
Oclaro Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR) has added a zero-chirp full-band tunable XFP to its tunable optical transceiver module portfolio. Now in production, the zero-chirp tunable XFP provides equivalent performance to 300-pin optical transceiver modules in a smaller pluggable, MSA footprint with low power consumption, according to Oclaro.
October 24, 2011
Members of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) have approved the Common Electrical I/O (CEI) 3.0 implementation agreement (IA). The IA defines electrical layer interfaces with signaling rates up to 28 Gbaud/s. The new IA one ups the previous CEI IA that addressed signaling rates up to 11.2 Gbaud/s.
October 24, 2011
Finisar Corp. (NASDAQ: FNSR) has unveiled a 1x20 wavelength-selective switch (WSS) which leverages the company’s Flexgrid technology to provide “gridless” flexibility. The company sees the new 1x20 WSS with Flexgrid as an enabler of high-port-count, colorless, directionless, and contentionless (CDC) ROADMs.