Industry News

ClariPhy, Oclaro tout 40-Gbps coherent

September 20, 2011

Chip vendor ClariPhy Communications and module and component supplier Oclaro Inc. (NASDAQ:OCLR) are talking up coherent approaches to 40-Gbps networking at ECOC. ClariPhy announced at the show that its LightSpeed CL4010 Coherent system on a chip (SoC) is now shipping in volume, thanks to its use by Oclaro in that company’s 40-Gbps MI 5000XM coherent modules. The two companies also announced a joint reference design that combines the LightSpeed CL4010 with Oclaro’s Oclaro narrow-linewidth ITLA, 40-Gbps coherent receiver, and 40-Gbps lithium niobate modulator.

MultiPhy offers 100G PHY IC for metro networks

September 20, 2011

Startup optical semiconductor vendor MultiPhy Ltd has announced the MP1100Q, a 100-Gbps DEMUX receiver chip in CMOS designed for 4x25-Gbps approaches to lower-cost 100-Gbps in the metro.

100G DP-QPSK coherent transponder module production

September 20, 2011

Opnext, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPXT) looks like it remains in front in the race to provide the first 100-Gbps optical transponder module based on dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift-keying (DP-QPSK) with coherent detection. The company officially introduced the OTM-100 module today at ECOC and asserts the transponder will be in mass production by next April.

980-nm pump lasers with smaller footprint, higher output power

September 20, 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.

Finisar adds new WaveShaper processors for optical testing

September 20, 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.

Oclaro brings zero-chirp tunable XFP to market

September 20, 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.

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