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Electronic devices play an important role in optical communications systems. Modulators, laser and modulator drivers, serializers/deserializers (SerDes), PHYs, MACs, multiplexers/demultiplexers, transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs), and similar devices are the subject of the stories you’ll find on this page.

ELECTRONICS NEWS & PRODUCTS

MOSIS collaboration with ePIXfab boosts access to silicon photonics prototyping

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

MoSys samples MSR620 Bandwidth Engine 2 Burst IC

Communications IC vendor MoSys (NASDAQ: MOSY) says it has begun sampling its MSR620 Bandwidt...

Ikanos touts 110 Mbps via Velocity-3 NodeScale Vectoring VDSL chipset

Communicatons semiconductor supplier Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN) says that it...

AppliedMicro offloads TPACK to Altera, announces partnership

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (NASDAQ: AMCC), aka AppliedMicro, has agreed to sell its TPACK ...

A*Star, Fujikura demo 60G silicon photonics modulator

In collaboration with Fujikura Ltd., researchers from Singapore’s A*STAR Institute of Microe...

NTT Electronics, Broadcom pair for coherent DSP

NTT Electronics (NEL), whose current generation of 100G coherent digital signal processors (...

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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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