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News Release from: Photline | Subject: NIR-LN modulators
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 August 2003
Modulators target non-telecomms
applications
New from Photline Technologies is a complete family of 1064nm lithium niobate modulators.
New from Photline Technologies is a complete family of 1064nm lithium niobate modulators Lithium niobate (LiNb03) modulators have found widespread use since the mid-1990s in long haul optical networks for their ability to modulate optical signals from laser diodes with short transition times and without chirp
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The intrinsic and unparalleled benefits of LiNbO3 modulators make them attractive devices for a variety of applications outside the telecommunications domain, including: fibre-optic sensors, laser material processing, free space communication and instrumentation.
These applications often use transmission wavelengths outside the 1300 and the 1550nm windows used by fibre-optics comms, which has limited the choice of available optical components.
Now the Photline NIR-LN intensity and phase modulator family for the 1064nm region offers engineers of these emerging applications a choice of modulation devices comparable to that which exists for telecommunications and with bandwidths up to 10Gbit/s.
NIR-LN modulator waveguides are manufactured using proton exchange, the sole technology at that wavelength that provides a sufficient optical power threshold of photorefractive and nonlinear effects.
"The NIR-LN range demonstrates Photline sound technological foundations and the continued commitment of the company to bring to the market a complete range of modulation solutions for a wide variety of applications, at cost effective price", explains Henri Porte, CEO of the company.
The NIR-LN modulator family will be launched at ECOC 2003 in Rimini between 22nd and 24th September.
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