DESIGN & MANUFACTURING

Lab testing tools must provide reliable performance across a variety of applications. They can include OTDRs, BERT sets, optical spectrum analyzers, light sources, optical switches, and more. On the manufacturing floor, test equipment helps technicians make pass/fail decisions.

Design & MFG NEWS & PRODUCTS

u2t Photonics offers 70 GHz, 3-dB bandwidth balanced photodetector

Optical component and integrated subsystems developer u2t Photonics AG has unveiled what it ...

Teledyne LeCroy expands SierraNet storage and network test family for 8/16G Fibre Channel, 10/40GbE

Test and measurement equipment developer Teledyne LeCroy says it has enhanced its SierraNet ...

Digital Lightwave offers portable 40G/100G test instruments

Fiber-optic test and measurement equipment specialist Digital Lightwave, Inc. has introduced...

JDSU drops some low-speed test products

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU; and TSX: JDU) revealed May 1 that it plans to stop selling test instrume...

ID Photonics adds C-Band and L-Band tunable laser engine to CoBrite line

German test and measurement instrument developer ID Photonics says it has added a tunable la...

Teledyne LeCroy offers 45-GHz optical modulation analyzer

Teledyne LeCroy, with the help of Coherent Solutions (formerly Southern Photonics) used OFC/...

EXFO launches IQS-2800 ITLA tunable laser source

EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO, TSX: EXF) has introduced the IQS-2800 integrable tunable laser asse...

Agilent Technologies unveils high-sensitivity multiport optical power meters

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has added another product to its portfolio of optical po...

Agilent offers reference-class 1270-nm to 1650-nm multiwavelength meter

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) will display its new Agilent 86122C multiwavelength meter...

Tektronix optical modulation analyzer supports superchannel testing

Test and measurement instrument developer Tektronix, Inc. has unveiled a software package fo...

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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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