Tunable laser capacity doubling by NeoPhotonics reflects coherent communications demand

Nov. 23, 2011

San Jose, CA--PIC modules and subsystems manufacturer NeoPhotonics is doubling capacity for narrow-linewidth tunable lasers for 40G and 100G coherent networks.

Gail Overton

San Jose, CA--Photonic integrated circuit (PIC) modules and subsystems designer and manufacturer NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN) is doubling capacity for production of low-noise, narrow-linewidth tunable lasers for 40 gigabit per second (40 Gbps) and 100 Gbps coherent communications networks.

"Our narrow linewidth tunable lasers are key components for coherent transport in telecommunications systems, which we believe is rapidly emerging as a dominate architecture for 40 and 100 Gbps networks," said Tim Jenks, CEO of NeoPhotonics. "We believe there is currently a shortage of these critical products while demand continues to grow. We are in the process of more than doubling our production capacity of narrow linewidth tunable lasers with minimal expected additional capital expenditures. We anticipate our added capacity to be on-line in the first quarter of 2012."

The NeoPhotonics products are compact, widely tunable laser assemblies optimized for narrow linewidth with up to 35 mW launch power in the C band and 20 mW in the L band. Their narrow linewidth and frequency stability are enabled by a NeoPhotonics phase-shifted distributed feedback (DFB) laser chip and a proprietary packaging technology, while the assembly also includes an integrated wavelength locker as well as industry standard electrical and firmware interfaces.

NeoPhotonics maintains headquarters in San Jose, CA and ISO 9001:2000 certified engineering and manufacturing facilities in Silicon Valley and Shenzhen, China.

SOURCE: NeoPhotonics; www.neophotonics.com/news/newsneo_1632893.aspx

About the Author

Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.