Equipment Design News

KITCO experts seek to reduce costs of fiber optic components as part of Navy contract

MARCH 14, 2010. Photonics experts at KITCO Fiber Optics in Virginia Beach, Va., will find ways to reduce the costs of fiber optic component manufacturing and repair under terms of a $9.8 million...

Lightwave Logic verifies electrical, optical performance of prototype phase modulators

MARCH 12, 2010 -- Lightwave Logic Inc., a technology company focused on the development of the Next Generation Electro-Optic Polymer Material Platform for applications in high-speed, fiber-optic...

Fujitsu introduces compact integrated DP-QPSK receiver for 100Gbps digital coherent receiving systems

MARCH 12 , 2010 -- Fujitsu Optical Components Limited will be releasing, on May 1, a compact integrated DP-QPSK receiver that supports 100Gbps digital coherent receiving systems. This new product...

Mitsubishi Electric develops new optical transmission devices for next-generation 100 Gb Ethernet applications

MARCH 11, 2010 -- Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has developed transmission devices featuring characteristics for super high-speed, 100 Gb Ethernet applications that multiplex four wavelength channels...

VI Systems launches VCSEL driver IC for 25 Gbit/s and 28 Gbit/s

MARCH 11, 2010 -- VI Systems GmbH, maker of ultra-high-speed optical components for data communications, introduces the A25-120C VCSEL (vertical cavity surface emitting laser) driver integrated...

RED-C introduces the UltraSpan High Power Amplification Terminal

MARCH 10, 2010 - RED-C Optical Networks Ltd. (RED-C), a provider of EDFAs, Raman amplifiers and optical monitoring devices for all optical network applications, today announced the launch of the...

TeraXion extends tunable dispersion compensation module suite

MARCH 10, 2010 - TeraXion Inc., maker of products for the generation and conditioning of light signals for telecommunications and defense & aerospace markets, is launching a new tunable...

GigOptix gains funding to enable new era of ultra fast hybrid silicon-organic integrated circuits based on proprietary polymer

MARCH 10, 2010 - GigOptix-Helix AG, a subsidiary of Palo Alto, Calif.-based GigOptix Inc., will participate in the European Union-funded project Silicon-Organic Hybrid Fabrication Platform for...

IPtronics offers silicon for 16-Gbps per channel parallel optics

MARCH 8, 2010 -- IPtronics has announced the availability of a 16-Gbps version of its 4- and 12-channel VCSEL drivers and TIAs for parallel optics. By leveraging existing technologies that are in...

Mindspeed debuts optical physical media device chipsets, collaborates with EMCORE on subsystems

MARCH 8, 2010 -- Mindspeed Technologies Inc., a supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, announced a high-performance, low-power physical media device (PMD)...