NeoPhotonics, a designer and producer of photonic integrated circuit-based subsystems and modules for high-speed, high-bandwidth communication networks has declared that the company is all set to increase the capacity of its narrow linewidth tunable lasers to twice as much, since these lasers have been the major components for high speed 40 and 100 Gbps coherent systems, with the company offering them in an OIF MSA standard ITLA form factor.
The company’s products are compact, flexible laser assemblies intended to be fine-tuned to a narrow line width up to 35mW start-up power in the C band and 20mW in the L band. The frequency stability and narrow line width are enabled by a NeoPhotonics phase-shifted DFB laser chip and the company’s own packaging technology, and is being offered in the market since the month of April, 2010 and is one of the preferred lasers for coherent systems.
Tim Jenks, CEO of NeoPhotonics, stated that the narrow line width tunable lasers are the major elements for coherent transport in telecommunications systems, which is expected to rapidly evolve as a main architecture for 40 and 100 Gbps networks. With the increasing demand, there is less existence of these products. The company is looking-forward to make the added capacity available online in the early 2012.