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At this week’s 2007 Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) in Anaheim, CA, USA, Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA announced samples of its new EDW-9100-XFP 1550nm dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) long-reach XFP optical transceiver module, suited to applications including SDH STM-64, SONET OC-192 LR-2, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBASE-ZR).
Designed for greater-than-80km applications for the wide-area network (WAN) and long-haul markets, the module marks the expansion of Emcore’s portfolio from parallel short-reach and coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) interconnect products (parallel VCSEL and LX4 optical modules for the 300m multimode market) into DWDM and long-reach 10Gbps applications, says Clay Hudgins, 10G Module Product Line Manager at Emcore’s Fiber Optics Division. The 80km DWDM segment has been experiencing double-digit quarter-on-quarter growth, the firm says.
The product exploits the 1550nm technology of Emcore’s Ortel division, while maintaining a robust multisourcing strategy, Hudgins adds. The transceiver module consists of a transmitter with a cooled externally modulated laser (EML) emitting at a wavelength of 1550nm and a high-sensitivity receiver with an avalanche photodiode (APD) detector. Options include C-band and L-band coverage at 100GHz ITU-grid spacing. The C-band version is sampling now to Emcore’s key accounts; an L-band version will begin sampling in Q2/2007.
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