Exhibitor Press Releases

3/10/2005

Eblana Photonics announces feedback insensitive single mode laser diodes for mass market applications and in volume offers these products at less than the price of a standard optical isolator.

Dublin, March 10th 2005 – Eblana Photonics Ltd (Dublin, Ireland) has announced availability of a breakthrough series of low priced uncooled single mode laser products designed for mass market applications. This product series exploits Eblana’s NFI (Nullified Feedback Influence) Technology to eliminate the need for optical isolators when single mode lasers are employed in optical communications. NFI technology is a laser chip based approach which is an integrated extension to its existing PGB (Photon Bandgap) laser technology platform. The elimination of the isolator greatly reduces total bill of material (BOM) cost, reduces assembly cost and ensures higher reliability due to having fewer assembled components.

“This product series will improve first pass system manufacturing yield for transceiver vendors. It also significantly reduces component alignment sensitivity that complicates transceiver manufacture and its cost”, said James O’Gorman, Eblana Photonics CEO. He continued; “Our new feedback-insensitive laser technology adds to other Eblana innovations, including low beam wander, low tracking error, and our distinct ultra-circular beam emission that greatly simplifies fibre and PLC waveguide coupling in optical module designs.”

“One of the key challenges facing the optical industry today is the low cost manufacture of high quality components for mass market subsystems or systems” said Ray Milano of Vitesse Semiconductor Inc. “The best way to reduce overall system cost is through the use of high quality components with uniform, repeatable characteristics. The result is a subsystem or system with high manufacturing yield and reliability. This breakthrough product builds on Eblana’s commitment to high performance photonics for mass-market applications, as demonstrated by our recent joint announcement to manufacture Eblana’s laser products on our 4” IC fab line”.

Daniel Tine, Eblana's Head of North American laser sales and business development added; “Driving the deployment of advanced optical packaging technology and mass-market broadband applications will require total removal of the isolator requirement from optical transmission products. We are therefore offering these reflection insensitive lasers at prices less than that of the standard isolator used with conventional DFB based modules in these ultra-high volume applications.”

Robert Goldman, who supports Eblana’s advanced packaging operations commented “Our NFI products are available in a variety of conventional and customer specific next generation packages. Eblana already offers excellent Fabry Perot lasers, enabling many customer next generation GBE PON transceiver designs. Eblana is one of the very few laser companies offering non-TO headered devices, and is focused on supporting its customers to develop the most cost-effective, high performance module package possible”.

The product series is designed for GPON, SONET OC-3 to OC-48, SDH STM1 to STM-16, Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel applications that require up to 2.5Gb/s transmission speed. The product has extremely stable single wavelength temperature performance over temperature range of 0 to 85?C and typically features Side Mode Suppression Ratio (SMSR) better than 35dB. A datasheet for the product is available at the Company's website: http://www.eblanaphotonics.com. Eblana offers the product in TO and TOSA packages. Advanced next generation packaging and header-less options are also available. Devices in conventional TO-56 headers are priced below $19 for high volume applications such as PX20 EPON.

For further product information and to obtain a quotation please contact us at sales@eblanaphotonics.com or contact your regional representative listed in our website: http://www.eblanaphotonics.com, or visit us at OFC Hall D, Stand 3009.





About Eblana Photonics

Eblana Photonics uses a proprietary photon-bandgap laser technology to design and manufacture high quality, long wavelength laser diode products for high volume Broadband Access, Enterprise, Metro, and SAN applications including FTTh/FTTP APON & EPON, SONET/SDH, and CWDM. Eblana's consistent performance high quality optical transmission products simplify high volume transceiver manufacture by its customers. Eblana's laser products operate uncooled in simplified production packages, and exhibit differentiating features such as: reduced sensitivity to optical feedback, circular, non astigmatic laser emission for more efficient fibre & PLC coupling and excellent thermal performance. Additional company and product information is available at www.eblanaphotonics.com.