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News Release from: NeoPhotonics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 September 2006
Variable optical attenuators pass
milestone
NeoPhotonics is celebrating the shipment of the 100,000th variable optical attenuator from LightConnect, its wholly owned subsidiary located in Newark, California.
NeoPhotonics reckons it has become the market leader in MEMS-based VOA (variable optical attenuator) components, as illustrated by the recent shipment of the 100,000th VOA from LightConnect, its wholly owned subsidiary located in Newark, California NeoPhotonics made the announcement at ECOC 2006, where the company also introduced a new next-generation low loss "2-degree" reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer (ROADM) and where the company is showcasing the industry's most complete portfolio of MEMS and PLC based optical solutions, including the new ROADM product
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The 100,000th VOA unit - an FVOA5000, one of the several types of VOAs offered by NeoPhotonics for a variety of applications - was shipped to a large optical system manufacturer in Europe.
This major milestone also illustrates the company's ability to meet surging market demand for these products, attributable to carrier requirements for a network infrastructure capable of supporting the rapid growth in broadband services.
The company announced shipment of its 40,000th VOA just over one year ago.
"NeoPhotonics has established itself as the market leader for MEMS based VOAs and the LightConnect VOA has been shipping to major system vendors in North America, Europe, Japan and China for the past several years", said Tim Jenks, CEO of NeoPhotonics.
"This is further validation of our MEMS technology as a very reliable platform for VOA - and we plan to leverage this technology further to satisfy the evolving requirements of metro and long-haul optical networks".
The FVOA5000 is one of the smallest MEMS VOAs with a footprint of 5.4 x 18 mm - making it ideal for compact applications - and is available in bright or dark configurations.
All VOAs offered from NeoPhotonics feature extreme resistance to in-situ shock and vibration and exhibit 2000V ESD protection.
All VOA products offered by NeoPhotonics have successfully completed the strict reliability requirements of the Telcordia GR-1209 and GR-1221 standards, reports of which are available to customers.
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