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News Release from: Bookham | Subject: LMC10NEJ and LMC10ZEG transmitter modules
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 September 2005
Transmitter modules extend reach of
metro networks
Bookham, a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, has achieved world record power performance with its latest range of transmitter modules.
Bookham, a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, has achieved world record power performance with its latest range of transmitter modules The new products are believed to be the first to offer 100km Mach-Zehnder (MZ) long-reach, with 10Gbit/s transmission, in a package small enough to enable small form-factor (SFF) module footprints
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Reduced size InP MZ platform will allow Bookham to offer 40Gbit/s products in smaller footprints compared with existing 40Gbit/s offerings employing larger optics.
The transmitters are 10Gbit/s devices using an indium phosphide (InP) MZ-based modulator and a distributed feedback (DFB) laser.
The devices allow customers to extend the reach of their metro networks, enabling long reach capabilities, while retaining SFF or equivalent footprint areas with no electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) or dispersion compensated fibre (DCF).
This means that a 10G overlay strategy can be implemented on existing 2.5G networks without compromising the density of metro shelves.
"No other 10Gbit/s device has the same performance and size combination", said Jon White, Product Line Manager at Bookham.
"Take-up for our existing InP transmitters has soared over the last year".
"These new versions are being offered to a wider customer audience as capacity increases in our new assembly facility in China".
"The products offer customers more choice in terms of transmitter options and reinforce our commitment towards making InP transmitters an industry standard in optical telecommunication".
The LMC10NEJ, with negative chirp and precision optical power, and the LMC10ZEG, with zero chirp and dynamic power control, are both Telcordia qualified and are moving into full-scale production.
The new transmitters join the already successful LMC10NEG.
The products form part of Bookham's transmitter and network laser portfolio and complement the company's range of directly modulated lasers (DML) and electro-absorption (EA) lasers.
Bookham is also developing fullband tunable versions of its compact MZ products, which are planned for release in 2006.
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