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Optical Transceivers, Transponders and Repeaters
News Release from: Zarlink Semiconductor | Subject: ZL60301
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 July 2003
Transceiver beats industry expectations
A new four-channel pluggable fibre-optic transceiver is claimed to offer best-in-class performance and reliability.
A new four-channel pluggable fibre-optic transceiver is claimed to offer best-in-class performance and reliability Already on order with a key global customer and in trials with several others, Zarlink's ZL60301 transceiver module achieves a 25% reduction in power consumption over industry specifications for four-channel fibre-optic transceivers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The ZL60301 module combines four separate transmit and receive channels, and connects to a 12-channel multimode ribbon fibre.
The transceiver handles data at rates up to 2.7Gbit/s per channel, for an aggregate capacity of 10.8Gbit/s in each direction.
"Our new four-channel transceiver module exceeds the industry's already stringent requirements for power dissipation.
This performance means increased system reliability for our customers", said Ulf Sundstrom, Director, Optical Products, Zarlink Semiconductor.
The ZL60301 transceiver employs Zarlink's highly reliable 850nm oxide VCSEL (vertical cavity surface emitting laser) technology in its transmit side.
A laser driver and four-device VCSEL array converts electrical input signals into parallel optical outputs with wavelengths of 850nm.
The receive portion of the module uses a four-PIN (P-type, intrinsic, N-type) photodiode array and amplifiers to convert parallel optical input signals into electrical outputs.
The reliability of the VCSEL array, combined with best-in-class power dissipation and temperature handling, gives the ZL60301 module a life span well above 15 years, meeting the demanding requirements of global telecommunications companies.
The four-channel ZL60301 transceiver conforms to all specifications of the POP4 multisource agreement.
This MSA, announced by Zarlink and Agilent Technologies in September 2002, promotes a common standard for pluggable four-channel parallel optic transceiver modules that offer an aggregate bandwidth of up to 10Gbit/s.
The POP4 MSA specifies footprint, packaging density, electronic and optical interface, as well as general performance characteristics for four-channel parallel optic transceivers.
The agreement promotes flexible and reliable system design by ensuring that customers have access to multiple reliable sources for these modules.
The ZL60301 module will be in volume production this August.
Evaluation boards are available now.
The transceiver is packaged in a 100-pin pluggable MEG-array ball grid array connector, and costs US $480 each in quantities of 100.
Versions of the module are offered with EMI shields and external heatsinks.
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