Optical equipment design requires the combination of a variety of technologies, from lasers to semiconductors, transceivers to line cards.

Equipment Design

Optical equipment design requires the combination of a variety of technologies, from lasers to semiconductors, transceivers to line cards. This topic center provides information on new technology, design ideas, and tutorials for the equipment designer.

Equipment Design News & Products
The Lightwave Channel
Discovery Semiconductor's president and CEO describes why you don't have to be going 100 Gbits/sec to benefit from coherent detection.
The Lightwave Blog
Yeah, we've got a lot of big names from the vendor community on the speaker roster for Lightwave's Optical Networks for Enterprises Conference (Lightwave...
Roy Rubenstein
Skype’s planned initial public offering doesn’t directly call to mind the travails of the optical component industry. But the hope of raising...
Equipment Design Product Showcase
Sponsor: U2t
The integrated coherent receiver CPRV is suited for 100G DP QPSK applications enabling ultra
compact module and linecard designs using
balanced detection with a symbol rate up to 32Gbaud. For more information visit:
Sponsor: GigOptix
The GX3101 is a high performance universal limiting TIA for use in fiber optic communication systems and was designed to enable one solution to support a variety of optical reaches, speeds and standards.
Sponsor: Menara Networks
Menara’s 50GHz C-band tunable OTN XFP provides integrated G.709 with E-FEC and GFP mapping with full OTN OAM management through the standard XFP interface.
Sponsor: RSoft Design Group
RSoft’s award-winning design tool OptSim features cutting-edge capabilities to simulate next generation systems like 100 Gbit/s coherent PMQPSK, OFDM, Fiber-Optic Gyroscope, electrical circuit modeling with embedded Spice engine, burst mode data transmission, and bidirectional RSOA-based WDM-PON.
Sponsor: S.I. Tech, Inc.
Fiber optic communication devices such as modems (media converters), multiplexers, repeaters, hubs, and cable assemblies for LAN, WAN, Industrial, and Military Applications.
Sponsor: S.I. Tech, Inc.
S.I. Tech, Inc. offers a wide selection of fiber optic modems that convert electrical signals to light, allowing data to be transmitted over fiber optic cabling. This enables data to be transmitted farther, reduces EMI/RFI interference, and provides for secure communications.
Sponsor: S.I. Tech, Inc.
S.I. Tech multiplexers combine several electrical signals to light, allowing data to be transmitted over fiber optic cabling. This enables data to be transmitted farther, reduces EMI/RFI interference, and provides for secure communications
DI-1000
Sponsor: Lightel Technologies, Inc.
The DI-1000 connects directly to your PC through the computer’s USB2.0 port. It features easy single finger focusing, a built-in image capture button, and detectable resolution to 0.5μm.
CW-5000
Sponsor: Lightel Technologies, Inc.
The CW-5000 is a versatile platform for fabrication of fused fiber products, including bundles for power combiners, mode field adapters, and thermal core expansion. Software package is highly customizable.
Fiber Optic Polisher
Sponsor: Ultra Tec Manufacturing, Inc.
All connector types may be prepared by the system, including SC, FC, ST, D4, SMA, Bare fiber, PC, and Flat polishes. All accommodated by simple changes of the lap and/or the workholder.
LX8900
Sponsor: GigOptix
GigOptix’s LX8900 offers the world’s first 100G Mach-Zehnder Modulator built on proprietary electro-optic polymer for ultra high frequency RF photonic, T&M and optical communication systems.
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