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The optical RAMs will provide several benefits

December 15, 2011

If successful, the optical RAMs will provide several benefits, RAMPLAS participants believe:memory access times 30X less than state-of-the-art SRAM cache and three orders of magnitude lower than DRAM modules ;reduction of energy consumption to levels around 15 mW/Gbps ;confirm the viability of wavelengths as a means to interconnect cache units and different memory hierarchical layers.

NeoPhotonics to double Santur narrow-linewidth tunable laser production

December 15, 2011

It isn’t taking long for NeoPhotonics Corp. (NYSE: NPTN) to leverage the assets it recently acquired when it bought Santur Corp. (see “NeoPhotonics agrees to acquire Santur”). NeoPhotonics says it is in the process of doubling production capacity for the narrow-linewidth tunable lasers it received in the deal.

OIF looks at lower-cost 100-Gbps transmitter

December 15, 2011

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) says it will launch a program to develop specifications for what it calls an Integrated Dual Polarization Quadrature Modulated Transmitter Assembly (ITXA). The ITXA effort aims to define a common electrical interface that allows the inclusion of other modulator technology that could enable lower cost and smaller transmitter assembly size.

Telephones are connected to the telephone exchange

December 14, 2011

Telephones are connected to the telephone exchange via a local loop, which is a physical pair of wires. Prior to the digital age, the use of the local loop for anything other than the transmission of speech, encompassing an audio frequency range of 300 to 3400 Hertz (voiceband or commercial bandwidth) was not considered.

GigOptix ships 14G VCSEL driver and receiver amplifier arrays

December 14, 2011

GigOptix, Inc. (OTCQX:GGOX) says it has started high-volume production of 14G VCSEL drivers and receiver amplifier arrays for short-reach parallel optical interconnects. The firm says the products are now shipping to Tier 1 customers making active optical cables (AOCs) for the datacom, avionics, and consumer markets.

Agilent offers fiber-optic switches

December 14, 2011

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) says its new N77 Series optical switches improve the cost-effectiveness of optical transceiver manufacturing tests as well as the efficiency of optical component and cable verification.

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