CyOptics (Los Angeles, CA), a maker of fiberoptic components, will be demonstrating its new technology for high-speed transmission at the Optical Fiber Communication conference 2000 (March 5-10; Baltimore, MD).
CyOptics (Los Angeles, CA), a maker of fiberoptic components, will be demonstrating its new technology for high-speed transmission at the Optical Fiber Communication conference 2000 (March 5-10; Baltimore, MD). The company is developing indium phosphide (InP) based components for optical networking; at the heart of the technology is a pulse-generating laser, a device for which CyOptics has received a patent.
Barely a year old, CyOptics has received $7 million in venture-capital financing. It is incorporated in Delaware and has a manufacturing subsidiary in Haifa, Israel. The Haifa branch is actually a pre-existing semiconductor fabrication facility (fab) used only partially by CyOptics; a portion of the fab's floor space contains CyOptics equipment. This arrangement is what allowed CyOptics to get a fab up and running so quickly, says Hava Volterra, vice president of marketing and business development. The company incorporates silicon optical-bench (SiOB) technology into its devices and buys the SiOB components from European sources.
John Wallace was with Laser Focus World for nearly 25 years, retiring in late June 2022. He obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and physics at Rutgers University and a master's in optical engineering at the University of Rochester. Before becoming an editor, John worked as an engineer at RCA, Exxon, Eastman Kodak, and GCA Corporation.
