COMPONENTS

Optical components include lasers, splitters, multiplexers, switches, photodetectors and other receiver types, silicon optical benches, and other building blocks of fiber optic communications modules, line cards, and systems. You’ll find new product announcements and tutorial information on this page.

COMPONENTS NEWS & PRODUCTS

Arrayed Fiberoptics offers non-contact fiber-optic connectors

Arrayed Fiberoptics Corp. (AFC) has launched a new type of fiber-optic connectors.The “non-c...

EMCORE sells VCSEL-based product lines to Sumitomo

EMCORE Corp. (NASDAQ: EMKR) and Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations USA, Inc. (SEDU) have a...

Oclaro, Opnext to merge

The optical component and subsystem space finally has seen the major merger observers have d...

GigOptix silicon-based 100-Gbps Mach-Zehnder modulator integrated with DFB laser

GigOptix, Inc. (OTCQX: GGOX) announced last week at OFC/NFOEC in Los Angeles that its 100-Gb...

Cosemi intros PIN-TIA BOSA for GPON Class B+

Cosemi Technologies, Inc. has announced the availability of its LB43-0102-xx-1 SuperTIA-PIN ...

IPG enhances long-haul optical amplifier portfolio

IPG Photonics Corp. (NASDAQ: IPGP) says it has expanded its optical amplification and transm...

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

Oclaro 2Q12 earnings call tidbits

Oclaro Chairman and CEO Alain Couder and CFO Jerry Turin discussed the company's results of the company's fiscal second quarter 2012 with analysts ...

Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Swimming in 100GbE’s alphabet soup

Recently, there has been a lot of confusion around the area of next-generation 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) development and who is doing what. Giv...

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