UT¥to build optical transmitters for Sanders

July 1, 1996
UT¥(Chalfont, PA), a subsidiary of Uniphase Corp. (San Jose, CA), has been chosen by Lockheed Sanders (Nashua, NH), a Lockheed Martin company, to develo¥a transmitter for electro-optic countermeasures systems. If all options are exercised, the contract will be worth more than $20 million. Building on technology developed for the commercial marketplace, UT¥will produce an externally modulated, continuous-wave distributed-feedback laser operating at 1550 nm to launch broadband signals

UT¥to build optical transmitters for Sanders

UT¥(Chalfont, PA), a subsidiary of Uniphase Corp. (San Jose, CA), has been chosen by Lockheed Sanders (Nashua, NH), a Lockheed Martin company, to develo¥a transmitter for electro-optic countermeasures systems. If all options are exercised, the contract will be worth more than $20 million. Building on technology developed for the commercial marketplace, UT¥will produce an externally modulated, continuous-wave distributed-feedback laser operating at 1550 nm to launch broadband signals into optical fiber. As many as 1000 systems will be produced over the open-ended program; initial deliveries are slated for mid-1997.

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