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

Mellanox to buy silicon photonics developer Kotura

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), which focuses on interconnect for se...

MOSIS collaboration with ePIXfab boosts access to silicon photonics prototyping

Semiconductor development foundry MOSIS had teamed up with ePIXfab, the European silicon pho...

AFOP launches LC and SC adapters with external or internal shutters

Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. (AFOP) has launched a new series of fiber-optic LC and S...

VI Systems awarded three US patents for its optical interconnect technology

VI Systems GmbH (VIS) says the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued notices o...

Avago strengthens 100G portfolio with CyOptics acquisition

Avago Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: AVGO) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire optical ...

QEOS offers datacom-grade LED products based on Tilted Charge Dynamics

Optical component startup Quantum Electro Opto Systems Sdn. Bhd. (QEOS) has unveiled the fir...

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

HuaweI: We're not quitting U.S.

April 25, 2013
Huawei would like you to know that while it has decided that it's unlikely to achieve rampant success in the U.S. carrier network equipment market,...

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Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Ethernet runs out of steam

February 1, 2013
Big news on the higher-speed Ethernet front. No, not that work has begun on 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), thus setting the bar low, but rather the intention to go for 1.6 Terabit Ethernet (TbE) afterward. Yes, that’s right. After deca...

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