s 4″ InP HBTs to be made at GCS

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First high-power broadly tunable laser component t~rincelot'l l.ightwavc lne I loui/ded itl May 2t)00 ill (;r;ulbtlry. NJ, lISA) has laultchcd a suite of three prod-

GTRAN launches l OGb/s ICs & transponders; 40Gb/s 4" InP HBTs to be made at GCS

uct tanlilics (available in w)lGTRAN Ine (fimnflcd in 1999

umc in (.)4/2001, for use in either long haiti or m e t r o area

in kYct'stlake Village, CA, { ISA)

networks), based on chip-level

has launched its single-power-

design and integration technol-

supply GTIO fitmih' of lOGb/s

,,gy:

trarisponders and ICs. ilwhldtrig the f o l l o w i n g :

• Wavel larp wavelength-sta• GTIO-131OTRS and (;Tt0-

bilised distributed k'edback ptlnlp hisers - these integrate

1550'I'RS seliZconlained data

ihe grating on-chip (eliminating

t r a n s p o n d e r s (compatible with

Ihc n e e d l o t an e x t e r n a l Fiber

current 50t)-pin MSA optical

Plnigg Grating) and emit tip to

p e r f o r m a n c e r e q u i r e m e n t s for

DOll IIlW ill a narrow spectral t~and.Thcv can also elimimlie the need lot amplifiers in Metro I)WI)M networks, • WavePower Pump lasers lor high-p~lwer ('3(R) n l W ) 1 4 x x nnl tCnnan amplifier and 1,480 nm EDFA punlp modules.

Pictured - Introduced by Princeton Lightwave Inc at March's Optical fiber Commumcations conference, the WaveRider InP-based tunable Broadband GainChip produces more than 40 m W and enables an external cavity laser to launch 20 m W of power into a fibre while tuning over more than an entire' band (>40 nm) for 5, C and L bands (1280-1620 nm) be both boosted to adequate

( C o t ) sul>assemblics - and less

fibre launch p o w e r ( m o r e than

c o m p l e x lllan ufiict u rii~Jg.

40 roW, double that currentl) available) and broadly tuned

• WaveRider haP-based tunable

(over tile entire S, C and 1.

llroadb,nld ( lain( ;hip (BG(]) -

bands with wavelengths of

Short and Intermcdiate r.'mge applications, and with full) integrated heatsinks lor broad operating t e m p e r a t u r e range); • (;I'II)-TX and (;I'IO-RX self

contained, full) integrated "simplex" transmitter and receiver

Princeton Lightwave has a

modtlles ( w h i c h are also full)

9(t,000 ft 2 highly automated t~.tb

compliant to ( IR-253-(7( )RE,

and expects to triple its SO-per-

IO(;B Ethcrnet read xt and have

son tcatn by year-end.

MSA pin-for-pin I/()s);

lhesc enable for tile first time

1281}- 1621) nm).This enables

I in a practical tormat) lighl

simplified chip design, a small-

• GT10-IOOSLD high-per-

lrolll ;ill external cavity laser to

cr package - in chip-on-carrier

t~trmance 1.aser Diode Driver [C;

First long-haul surface-emitting lasers l s i n g its NI(],SEL (Novalux Extended (]avity Surface

• GTIO-SOOOLA high-perfornlancc SiGe 12 5Gb/s Limiting Amplifier IC, fi~r O(;-192 receiv-

Emitting Laser) technology -

power, perli:ctly circular

er modules (with sufficient

w h i c h p r o d u c e s a high-

bcain emitted frolll the

bandwidtll for double forward

stlrfacc of tile chip - in April

error correction systenls at

Novalnx lnc (Sunnyvale, CA,

12.SGb/s).

Heat spreader

11SA) is s h i p p i n g samples o f t h e first h i g h - p o w e r surfitce-

:tion ;rture

c m i t l i n g lasers for long-haul

optical n e t w o r k s (a h u n d r e d fold increase in p o w e r ) . T h c tw'o 981) mn EDFA p u n l p lasers illclndc:

• {!sing foundr) partner Glot3al ( ~ o m m t l n i c a t i o n s ,SvsteltlS lne

('lbrrance, CA, USA), (;TRAN has developed lnP I|BTs on 4" waiters whivh have 1;1-= 150 Gllz aud fma× > 201) (;Hz.This allows the design of o p t o d c c -

• a singlorflode module

tronic ICs lot 40Gb/s (OC-'r68)

(2111) and 360 mW powers):

S( )N H ' systems (a WI)M/

and

folavard Error Correction rood-

• a 750 mW muhi-mode r o o d -

transponder module were also

tile lor tile enlerging dual-clad

s h o w n at the Optical fTber

fibre market.

(.Tmlmt#nications conference).

tile and lnP-based 41)(;b/s (iT,tO

I'icturetl - A schematic diagram of the Novatux Extended Cavity Surface Emitting 1.aser (NECSEL)

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