Beaverton, OR – - March 31, 2009 – Tektronix, a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced new optical sampling oscilloscope modules for the Tektronix DSA8200 Digital Serial Analyzer Series that promise to lower the cost of high-performance optical transmitter development and standards compliance. The 80C10B and 80C10B with Option F1 (80C10B [...]
March 26, 2009 – Sunnyvale, CA – Finisar Corporation, Opnext, Inc. and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd./Excelight Communications, Inc. announced recently that they have entered into a Multi-Source Agreement (MSA). The purpose of the CFP MSA is to define a hot-pluggable optical transceiver form factor to enable 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s applications, including next-generation High Speed Ethernet [...]
The FK12 Angled Fiber Cleaver sets the standard for low reflectance fiber termination of better than -60 dB. Fast and repeatable cleaving of fiber ends at user-selectable cleave angles (0 degrees to 15 degrees) make it possible for installers to reduce the reflectance of mechanical splices and other fiber terminations without the use of index-matching gels. The FK12 is the tool of choice when quick fiber termination and low return loss are required for minimum cost.
The Fujikura FSM-17S fusion splicer establishes a new standard for single fiber “fixed v-groove” type fusion splicers with a host of improvements including a 35 second tube heater, dual position monitor and a longer battery life. The real time arc calibration feature makes field maintenance easier than ever.
The Type-66 TuffCat mass fusion splicer features the industry’s first Dual-Automatic-Splice Protection Sleeve Heater System – Sumitomo’s exclusive patent-pending system. The dual heater system’s simultaneous operation helps to eliminate squandered time waiting for a single heater system to complete its cycle. Instead, the streamlined splicing process reduces the bottle neck of “heater wait time” by 88%, improving mass splicing efficiency and productivity in the field by 70%.
The Sumitomo FCP-22L is a precision fiber cleaver which can accomodate 250um and 900um coatings. The FCP-22L is very versatile as it can be used to cleave single fibers as well as ribbon fibers.
SAN DIEGO – March 24, 2009 – Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Pink Sheets: VTSS) continues to increase its presence in the rapidly expanding Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and Fiber-to-the-Building (FTTB) markets by establishing a network of leading technology companies to collectively address and advance development of next-generation, end-to-end, passive optical networking (PON) systems. The members of the FTTx [...]
The FSM-50S fusion splicer from Fujikura sets the standard for core alignment fusion splicers. The FSM-50S is one of the the fastest field splicers available. It can complete a splice and tube heat in a total of 44 seconds.
SAN DIEGO, March 26, 2009 – A number of new optical communication technologies and capabilities, particularly those for 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s optical links, were unveiled by companies such as Finisar, JDSU, NeoPhotonics, Bookham and Agilent Technologies this week during the 2009 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers [...]
Santa Clara, CA – March 13, 2009 – Agilent Technologies Inc. recently introduced the industry’s first time-domain based optical modulation analyzer offering in-depth analysis of amplitude and phase-modulated optical signals. This optical test instrument was developed in close cooperation with Agilent Laboratories, the central research arm of Agilent Technologies. It is based on wide-bandwidth, polarization-diverse [...]
