Wessling, Germany and Fremont, CA – March 19, 2003 – Santur Corporation, a leading manufacturer of reliable, cost-effective source laser components for the telecommunications industry, today announced a distribution agreement with Laser 2000, Europe’s largest independent distributor of photonic components.

The products covered by the agreement include the award-winning Santur TL1010-C and TL1020-C, as well as the new Series 2000 small form-factor, OIF-MSA compliant, tunable lasers. All of these products deliver wide wavelength tuning in a small, highly reliable package. Incorporating Santur’s unique DFB array technology, the broadly tunable lasers reduce operational and capital costs for both metro and long-haul network operators without increasing system risk.

Laser 2000 provides pan-European sales coverage to a culturally diverse marketplace, with offices in the major industrial centers of Europe. Their relationships with both emerging and existing businesses in Europe will allow Santur to expand its sales and customer support globally. Teams of experienced Laser 2000 sales personnel have the applications knowledge and in-depth technical understanding of the products that provide a critical source of information locally available to the customer.

“We have chosen to carry Santur’s products after a careful evaluation of the alternatives, and we are certain that they will be the customer’s first choice in widely tunable source lasers. This new product will enable us to offer a full solution for network configuration,” commented Philippe Bolle, European Telecom Coordinator for Laser 2000.

“Laser 2000’s expertise, broad geographic coverage, and relationships with the customers will ensure that Santur is well represented and the customer is well supported thousands of miles and many time zones away from company headquarters,” remarked Julian Osinski, Santur’s VP of Product Marketing. “We certainly look forward to working together to achieve that result.”

About Laser 2000
Laser 2000 is the European specialist in distribution and representation for high-technology components and instrumentation for telecommunications networks. Laser 2000 has offices in Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart, Dresden, Mönchengladbach, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Northampton, Stockholm and Milan. For more information visit www.laser2000.com.

About Santur Corporation
Headquartered in Fremont, California, Santur Corporation is a vertically integrated manufacturer of high-performance tunable lasers for metro and long-haul WDM systems. The company’s patented DFB-array technology enables the fabrication of broadly tunable sources at the same performance and costs as fixed wavelength sources. Santur’s products have set a new standard in the industry with their unique combination of high-power achieved without the use of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), wide tunability with no possibility of mode hops, stability in harsh environments, and low cost. For more information, visit www.santurcorp.com, call 1-(866)-TUNABLE, or e-mail marketing@santurcorp.com.


Contact:
Gurinder Parhar
Vice President, Business Development and Marketing
Santur Corporation
Phone: (510) 933-4100, ext. 226
Fax: (510) 656-7563
E-mail: marketing@santurcorp.com