Press Releases :: 2008
Santur announces the availability of high power(50mW) widely tunable DFB lasers
FREMONT, CA – July 15, 2008 – Santur Corporation, the leading manufacturer of high performance parallel array devices for the global telecommunications industry, today announced general availability of 50mW (17dBm) C-band and L-band DFB-based widely tunable lasers. Such characteristics are desirable in a variety of architectures where very high power and stable DFB characteristics are required.
These applications include hybrid fiber-coax (HFC), cable TV, metro, passive optical network (PON), and backbone 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s systems that are being developed with advanced modulation coding techniques or coherent detection. The very high power allows larger splitting losses in passive optical networks, and better signal to noise ratio in high speed links. Previously such power levels were only commercially available in fixed wavelengths devices.
The Santur laser includes a wavelength locker for operation at 100GHz to 25GHz ITU spacing, and is available either as an easy-to-use butterfly or a fully contained pre-calibrated module. This product offering is a direct result of Santur’s strong focus on devices using unique DFB array architectures. These lasers are fully qualified and extensively tested for telecom requirements with nearly 200,000 devices operating in the field carrying live traffic.
Vibha Goel, Director of Marketing at Santur, stated “Our expertise in advanced DFB manufacturing techniques and our long experience with tunable lasers allows us to tailor the performance of the DFBs for various applications. We are proud to make 50mW widely tunable devices commercially available with no compromises on performance or power consumption.”
About Santur Corporation
Headquartered in Fremont, California, Santur Corporation is the world’s
leading 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 high performance
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, Telcordia GR-468 reliability and
value. For more information, visit www.santurcorp.com,
call 1-(866)-TUNABLE, or e-mail marketing@santurcorp.com.
Contact:
Vibha Goel
Director of Marketing
Santur Corporation
Phone: (510) 933 4346
Fax:
(510) 656-7563
E-mail: vgoel@santurcorp.com