Volume 2, Issue 10

43-Gbit/sec photoreceivers accelerate optical communications

Oct. 1, 2003

u2t Photonics AG, a Berlin-based vendor of leading edge optoelectronic components, has introduced two differential pin-TIA photoreceivers for SONET OC-768/SDH STM-256 fibre-optic...

Transmission

Novel packaging approaches attract venture funding

Oct. 1, 2003

While funding for optical companies remains difficult to come by, two startups have managed to raise money based on their wafer-level approaches to functional integration. Both...

Transmission

Product focus: Lasers

Oct. 1, 2003

Blue Sky Research's ChromaLASE series of free-space lasers is designed for OEM applications such as biomedical and analytical instrumentation, alignment, and semiconductor metrology...

Components

Unique fabrication technique for DFB lasers promises cheaper optical components

Oct. 1, 2003

Bookham Technology (Oxford, UK) presented a paper at ECOC last month describing a novel method to fabricate ridge-waveguide distributed feedback (DFB) lasers with only a single...

Mergers & Acquisitions

Consolidation in action

Oct. 1, 2003

If this autumn is marking some kind of positive turning point, then the more generous souls amongst us might believe the modest activity in the aisles at ECOC last month in Rimini...

Volume 2, Issue 10

43-Gbit/sec photoreceivers accelerate optical communications

Novel packaging approaches attract venture funding

Product focus: Lasers

Unique fabrication technique for DFB lasers promises cheaper optical components

Consolidation in action

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