SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- NeoPhotonics
Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading designer and manufacturer
of advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit based modules and
subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications
networks, today announced the introduction and initial shipments of
new Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) multiplexers and
de-multiplexers for high capacity, high baud rate, coherent
transmission systems. These new AWGs are based on
NeoPhotonics high volume, high reliability Planar Lightwave Circuit
platform and offer channel spacings from 75 GHz to 150 GHz and
channel counts from 40 to 64 channels. The filter response
functions have been designed to be broad and flat over the desired
passband in order to support new coherent systems operating in the
range from 60 to 128 Gbaud. This new product family consists
of multiple designs which are optimized around specific system
requirements.
Over the last two decades, AWGs have been a key filtering
technology used in Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
systems to put different wavelength channels on to and off of
transmission fibers. An AWG offers much lower cost and many
more channels compared to a wavelength-selective switch, and is an
ideal wavelength multiplexing and de-multiplexing technology for
point-to-point high capacity systems such as Data Center
Interconnect (DCI). NeoPhotonics is a fully vertically integrated
supplier of AWGs with in-house design, wafer fabrication, assembly
and test, and has shipped more than half a million AWGs to the
market world-wide.
The advent of coherent transmission for telecommunications
greatly increases fiber capacity and is particularly useful for DCI
applications. However, it imposes a new set of requirements
on AWGs that are quite different from those in traditional direct
detection systems. By using higher baud rates and higher
order modulation coherent transmission the bandwidth of each
wavelength channel can be increased to 400 Gbps, 600 Gbps, 800Gbps
or higher. However, these channels require more spectral
bandwidth, thus reducing the total number of channels achievable
when the total available optical spectrum is fixed.
Consequently, an optimum design of the DWDM multiplexer and
de-multiplexer channel spacing and filter bandwidth is needed to
maximize the fiber capacity. As a vertically integrated designer
and manufacturer of AWGs, NeoPhotonics works with customers to
efficiently modify the filter shape and channel spacing to maximize
total fiber capacity, and can rapidly transition new designs to
production, providing high volume to support DCI deployments.
"We are pleased to announce initial shipments of our new line of
AWGs designed to support our customers' high baud rate DCI and
Telecom coherent transmission systems," said Tim Jenks,
Chairman and CEO of NeoPhotonics. "As an industry leading
designer and vertically integrated manufacturer we have been able
to respond rapidly to different customer needs and to efficiently
meet this emerging market demand," concluded Mr. Jenks.
About NeoPhotonics
NeoPhotonics is a leading designer and manufacturer of
optoelectronic solutions for the highest speed communications
networks in telecom and datacenter applications. The
Company's products enable cost-effective, high-speed data
transmission and efficient allocation of bandwidth over
communications networks. NeoPhotonics maintains headquarters in
San Jose, California and ISO
9001:2015 certified engineering and manufacturing facilities in
Silicon Valley (USA), Japan and China. For additional
information visit www.neophotonics.com.
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