PALO ALTO, USA: GigOptix Inc. today announced the use of its 100G LX8900 Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM) by Photon-X, LLC, a manufacturer of advanced fiber optic and RF photonic devices and subsystems.
The LX8900 with an optical bandwidth of 65GHz enables customers to modulate a signal’s phase and amplitude at ultra high frequencies in the optical domain.
Existing modulation mechanisms operating at these frequencies suffer from a number of drawbacks including narrow bandwidth and high power dissipation. Moreover, other optical modulator technologies such as Lithium Niobate and Indium Phosphide are not able to perform at these high speeds.
The LX8900, due to the intrinsic properties of the GigOptix’s EO polymer material, is not only able to operate at ultra high frequencies but also provide a broadband response in a small, low power, radiation hard form factor.
The LX8900 and its future derivatives are expected to have applicability in defense and aerospace and be used in phase array radar, antenna remoting, RF beam steering and ultra high frequency signal mixing applications.
"This collaboration with Photon-X is a great opportunity to leverage our technology beyond the high speed optical communications arena into new markets such as wide band RF Photonics in defense and aerospace systems," said Andrea Betti-Berutto, Chief Technical Officer of GigOptix.
“The LX8900 is a unique product in terms of its high speed and broadband operation and it is a great addition to our expanding RF solution portfolio of broadband amplifier devices.”
"GigOptix electro-optic polymer technology provides a very exciting opportunity for us to develop new innovative high speed and wide band products in the RF photonics space,” said Renfeng Gao, Director of Photon-X, LLC. “The LX8900’s bandwidth and performance characteristics are very impressive and we believe will open up a whole new realm of RF photonic applications.”
Samples are available immediately.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
GigOptix's LX8400 -- smallest 40G DPSK Mach-Zehnder modulator
PALO ALTO, USA: GigOptix Inc. today announced the availability of samples of the LX8400, its 40G DPSK Mach-Zehnder modulator, using its proprietary Electro-Optical (EO) polymer technology and manufactured at a qualified telecom contract manufacturer.
The LX8400 is the first EO polymer Mach-Zehnder modulator that has been designed with volume manufacturing in mind. The device targets the fast growing telecom market’s 40G ultra-long-haul segment and competes favorably with existing technologies, such as Lithium Niobate, in terms of performance.
Ovum’s most recent Optical Component Forecast reports that 40G modulators will be the fastest growing segment of the telecom modulator market, growing at a 42 percent CAGR from $13M in 2009 to $105M in 2014.
GigOptix’s Electro-Optic polymer technology offers significant advantages over the existing crystalline semiconductor technologies used today.
These include: simpler manufacturing, larger bandwidth, smaller form factor, lower weight, lower drive voltages and immunity to radiation which is particularly important for defense and aerospace markets.
GigOptix also has carried out full thermal stability and FIT characterization of the product and is now in the process of aggressively reducing the device costs.
The LX8400 is the first EO polymer Mach-Zehnder modulator that has been designed with volume manufacturing in mind. The device targets the fast growing telecom market’s 40G ultra-long-haul segment and competes favorably with existing technologies, such as Lithium Niobate, in terms of performance.
Ovum’s most recent Optical Component Forecast reports that 40G modulators will be the fastest growing segment of the telecom modulator market, growing at a 42 percent CAGR from $13M in 2009 to $105M in 2014.
GigOptix’s Electro-Optic polymer technology offers significant advantages over the existing crystalline semiconductor technologies used today.
These include: simpler manufacturing, larger bandwidth, smaller form factor, lower weight, lower drive voltages and immunity to radiation which is particularly important for defense and aerospace markets.
GigOptix also has carried out full thermal stability and FIT characterization of the product and is now in the process of aggressively reducing the device costs.
Friday, July 31, 2009
GigOptix GX3220 TIA for 40G and 100G applications
PALO ALTO, USA: GigOptix Inc., a leading provider of electronic engines for the optically connected digital world announced the availability for sampling of the GX3220, a 28Gb/s linear transimpedance amplifier (TIA) with integrated automatic gain control for 100G DP-QPSK and 40G DQPSK applications.
“The GX3220 is a very low power, small form factor solution that more than addresses customers’ functionality requirements,” commented Padraig O’Mathuna, Director of Product Marketing at GigOptix.
“The 100G transponder standardization is still under way and power dissipation is a major concern amongst the defining group. We feel that we have not only met the current low power dissipation requirement but have successfully surpassed it. The excellent performance and extreme low power of this TIA ensures that it is strongly positioned relative to our competition.”
Key features of the GX3220 include:
* Frequency range up to 28Gb/s.
* High linearity and low harmonic distortion compliant with the draft 100G OIF recommendations.
* Supports a variety of photodiodes from vendors.
* Very low power consumption.
Ovum's most recent WAN optical components market forecast projects that the volume of 40G receivers will grow from 20K units in 2009 to 183K in 2013 (CAGR 74 percent) with the 100G WAN optical component market showing similar growth rates starting from 2010.
“The GX3220 is a very low power, small form factor solution that more than addresses customers’ functionality requirements,” commented Padraig O’Mathuna, Director of Product Marketing at GigOptix.
“The 100G transponder standardization is still under way and power dissipation is a major concern amongst the defining group. We feel that we have not only met the current low power dissipation requirement but have successfully surpassed it. The excellent performance and extreme low power of this TIA ensures that it is strongly positioned relative to our competition.”
Key features of the GX3220 include:
* Frequency range up to 28Gb/s.
* High linearity and low harmonic distortion compliant with the draft 100G OIF recommendations.
* Supports a variety of photodiodes from vendors.
* Very low power consumption.
Ovum's most recent WAN optical components market forecast projects that the volume of 40G receivers will grow from 20K units in 2009 to 183K in 2013 (CAGR 74 percent) with the 100G WAN optical component market showing similar growth rates starting from 2010.
Monday, July 6, 2009
GigOptix makes first sales of polymer based optical modulators
PALO ALTO, USA: GigOptix Inc. has made the first sales of its ground-breaking Electro-Optic (EO) polymer based Mach-Zehnder Modulators (MZM).
The company has delivered the world’s first engineering prototypes of 20G, 40G and 100G polymer MZMs to customers working in the fields of communications, defense and high speed RF.
"We are delighted to see our fundamental materials research turning into real products with this release of our electro-optic polymer modulators to customers," said Dr. Raluca Dinu, Vice President and General Manager of GigOptix-Bothell business unit.
“Since merging with GigOptix, the team is more market focused and we have been able to accelerate our LX EO polymer MZM product development by tapping in to the extensive commercial experience of the of GigOptix team. Our technology is no longer in the experimental phase; now we are focusing on optimizing the manufacturing process for volume production and working with customers to generate differentiated new products for a broad range of market applications.”
Prof. Alan Willner, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California is among the first customers to receive the 100Gb/s MZM, LX8900.
"GigOptix appears to have made significant advances in the field of ultrahigh bandwidth optical devices which are not possible with other current technologies. My team and I are very excited to receive one of the first 100Gb/s EO polymer modulators from GigOptix,” said Prof. Willner.
“The huge bandwidth of these devices has the potential to enable next generation terabit communication systems and ultrahigh frequency RF communication systems. We are looking forward to investigating the operation of this technology and cooperating with GigOptix to map out its performance over the coming months.”
GigOptix’s electro-optic polymer technology offers significant advantages over the existing crystalline semiconductor technologies used today. These include: simpler manufacturing, larger bandwidth, smaller form factor, lower weight, lower drive voltages and immunity to radiation particularly important for defense and aerospace markets.
Moreover, EO polymer is a thin film spin-on technology whose manufacture is similar to semiconductor processing such as CMOS. This similarity not only opens the door to higher levels of integration that can enable photonic integrated devices for telecom applications but may also hold the potential to tackle the intra-chip communication bottleneck now being seen as the next challenge in the next generation many-core microprocessors.
On-chip optical interconnects are seen by many in industry as the only means of routing signals across next generation CMOS devices.
GigOptix expects its first volume product to be a 40G modulator for the telecom market. Ovum most recent Optical Component Forecast (Inniss and Redpath. “Biannual forecast for optical components vendors: revenues, unit volumes & ASPs.” April 24, 2009) reports that 40G modulators will be the fastest growing segment of the telecom modulator market, growing at a 42 percent CAGR from $13 million in 2009 to $105 million in 2014.
The company has delivered the world’s first engineering prototypes of 20G, 40G and 100G polymer MZMs to customers working in the fields of communications, defense and high speed RF.
"We are delighted to see our fundamental materials research turning into real products with this release of our electro-optic polymer modulators to customers," said Dr. Raluca Dinu, Vice President and General Manager of GigOptix-Bothell business unit.
“Since merging with GigOptix, the team is more market focused and we have been able to accelerate our LX EO polymer MZM product development by tapping in to the extensive commercial experience of the of GigOptix team. Our technology is no longer in the experimental phase; now we are focusing on optimizing the manufacturing process for volume production and working with customers to generate differentiated new products for a broad range of market applications.”
Prof. Alan Willner, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California is among the first customers to receive the 100Gb/s MZM, LX8900.
"GigOptix appears to have made significant advances in the field of ultrahigh bandwidth optical devices which are not possible with other current technologies. My team and I are very excited to receive one of the first 100Gb/s EO polymer modulators from GigOptix,” said Prof. Willner.
“The huge bandwidth of these devices has the potential to enable next generation terabit communication systems and ultrahigh frequency RF communication systems. We are looking forward to investigating the operation of this technology and cooperating with GigOptix to map out its performance over the coming months.”
GigOptix’s electro-optic polymer technology offers significant advantages over the existing crystalline semiconductor technologies used today. These include: simpler manufacturing, larger bandwidth, smaller form factor, lower weight, lower drive voltages and immunity to radiation particularly important for defense and aerospace markets.
Moreover, EO polymer is a thin film spin-on technology whose manufacture is similar to semiconductor processing such as CMOS. This similarity not only opens the door to higher levels of integration that can enable photonic integrated devices for telecom applications but may also hold the potential to tackle the intra-chip communication bottleneck now being seen as the next challenge in the next generation many-core microprocessors.
On-chip optical interconnects are seen by many in industry as the only means of routing signals across next generation CMOS devices.
GigOptix expects its first volume product to be a 40G modulator for the telecom market. Ovum most recent Optical Component Forecast (Inniss and Redpath. “Biannual forecast for optical components vendors: revenues, unit volumes & ASPs.” April 24, 2009) reports that 40G modulators will be the fastest growing segment of the telecom modulator market, growing at a 42 percent CAGR from $13 million in 2009 to $105 million in 2014.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
GigOptix books $1.5 million order for undersea optical drivers
PALO ALTO, USA: GigOptix Inc., a leading provider of electronic engines for the optically connected digital world, announced the booking of a $1.46M purchase order for its ultra long reach Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM) drivers.
The order, from a large European customer for undersea optical network cable drivers, is to be delivered in full during the second half of 2009.
“Despite the difficult market conditions, we see a continued healthy demand for our long reach and ultra long reach drivers for terrestrial and undersea optical cable links greater than 500 km. Our drivers, with integrated encoders for 10Gb/s RZ and RZ-DPSK modulation formats, are valued for their superior performance and offer the best jitter specifications in the market,” states Padraig O’Mathuna, Director of Product Marketing at GigOptix.
“This new order brings our expected 2009 sales to this customer to more than $3.5 million,” he added.
The order, from a large European customer for undersea optical network cable drivers, is to be delivered in full during the second half of 2009.
“Despite the difficult market conditions, we see a continued healthy demand for our long reach and ultra long reach drivers for terrestrial and undersea optical cable links greater than 500 km. Our drivers, with integrated encoders for 10Gb/s RZ and RZ-DPSK modulation formats, are valued for their superior performance and offer the best jitter specifications in the market,” states Padraig O’Mathuna, Director of Product Marketing at GigOptix.
“This new order brings our expected 2009 sales to this customer to more than $3.5 million,” he added.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
GigOptix extends DARPA research contract
PALO ALTO, USA: GigOptix Inc., a leading provider of electronic engines for the optically connected digital world, announced the extension of irs contract with DARPA MTO and with SPAWAR PACIFIC as the contracting agency.
The additional work requested is to fabricate low driving voltage, broadband Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulators using GigOptix’s Electro-Optic (EO) polymer material for operation at very low temperatures for applications in supercomputers. The extension of $346,000 brings the total value of the contract to approx $6.1M and opens new areas for use of the modulators.
"Due to their intrinsic properties, the EO materials incorporated in GigOptix’s high speed polymer modulators have the potential to operate not only with low driving voltage but also at very low temperatures. Our technology is capable of effectively addressing all these requirements simultaneously," said Dr. Raluca Dinu, Vice President and General Manager of GigOptix-Bothell business unit.
"We are excited that GigOptix's EO polymer technology has once more proven its breadth and applicability for demanding military applications. We are continuing in parallel to commercialize the modulator for telecom applications and prove that EO polymers can offer the reliability requested by the industry."
Electro-optic polymer devices are well suited to deliver on the size, weight and power, high-bandwidth, and immunity to electromagnetic interference requirements that are crucial for many defense applications.
The additional work requested is to fabricate low driving voltage, broadband Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulators using GigOptix’s Electro-Optic (EO) polymer material for operation at very low temperatures for applications in supercomputers. The extension of $346,000 brings the total value of the contract to approx $6.1M and opens new areas for use of the modulators.
"Due to their intrinsic properties, the EO materials incorporated in GigOptix’s high speed polymer modulators have the potential to operate not only with low driving voltage but also at very low temperatures. Our technology is capable of effectively addressing all these requirements simultaneously," said Dr. Raluca Dinu, Vice President and General Manager of GigOptix-Bothell business unit.
"We are excited that GigOptix's EO polymer technology has once more proven its breadth and applicability for demanding military applications. We are continuing in parallel to commercialize the modulator for telecom applications and prove that EO polymers can offer the reliability requested by the industry."
Electro-optic polymer devices are well suited to deliver on the size, weight and power, high-bandwidth, and immunity to electromagnetic interference requirements that are crucial for many defense applications.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
GigOptix enables sub 1W for 120Gbps parallel optics links
PALO ALTO, USA: GigOptix Inc. announced today that it has successfully demonstrated error-free 10Gbps optical links over 100m of multi-mode fiber (MMF) operating with less than 81mW per channel or 8mW/Gbps.
These links used ‘off the shelf’ 850 nm O/E components and GigOptix’s HXT/R4 series of multichannel VCSEL driver and receiver arrays with a single power supply. This is a major step in parallel optics solutions as it will enable 12 channel links used in SNAP12, CXP, for and 100GBASE-SR10 standards to achieve sub 1W power dissipation.
Commercially available 12 channel parallel optics modules operating at 6.25Gbps per channel offer an aggregate bandwidth of 75Gbps with power consumption of 53mW/Gbps or in the range of 300mW per channel. GigOptix 10Gbps solution offers 120Gbps and results demonstrate more than 6 x improvement over the previous generations with a single power supply.
"Network demand continues to grow at a fast pace and parallel optics provides many benefits over traditional copper connections in broadband networks," commented Daryl Inniss, Vice President and Practice Leader of Communications Component of Ovum. “Continuously driving down the energy per bit is key to accelerating the adoption in the Enterprise segment. GigOptix is setting a significant benchmark with these results.”
“This is a great result that confirms the value of the 10Gb/s implementation with new technology concepts to reduce power. We also have more system optimization ideas which, we believe, can improve on these results with further cooperation with our customers,” stated Joerg Wieland, Vice President and General Manager of GigOptix-Helix.
“System integrators can now produce unprecedented power efficiency for high-density, board-to-board interconnects for high-end servers and routers. This new generation provides higher bandwidths and greatly reduces system power dissipation which will enable data center managers to save significantly on energy costs due to heat management. ”
The HXT/R4 family is designed for use in Active Optical Cables (AOC), SNAP12 and QSFP optical modules while serving the fast growing markets of high performance computing optical interconnects, switch and router optical backplanes and the new 40G and 100G Ethernet standards.
These links used ‘off the shelf’ 850 nm O/E components and GigOptix’s HXT/R4 series of multichannel VCSEL driver and receiver arrays with a single power supply. This is a major step in parallel optics solutions as it will enable 12 channel links used in SNAP12, CXP, for and 100GBASE-SR10 standards to achieve sub 1W power dissipation.
Commercially available 12 channel parallel optics modules operating at 6.25Gbps per channel offer an aggregate bandwidth of 75Gbps with power consumption of 53mW/Gbps or in the range of 300mW per channel. GigOptix 10Gbps solution offers 120Gbps and results demonstrate more than 6 x improvement over the previous generations with a single power supply.
"Network demand continues to grow at a fast pace and parallel optics provides many benefits over traditional copper connections in broadband networks," commented Daryl Inniss, Vice President and Practice Leader of Communications Component of Ovum. “Continuously driving down the energy per bit is key to accelerating the adoption in the Enterprise segment. GigOptix is setting a significant benchmark with these results.”
“This is a great result that confirms the value of the 10Gb/s implementation with new technology concepts to reduce power. We also have more system optimization ideas which, we believe, can improve on these results with further cooperation with our customers,” stated Joerg Wieland, Vice President and General Manager of GigOptix-Helix.
“System integrators can now produce unprecedented power efficiency for high-density, board-to-board interconnects for high-end servers and routers. This new generation provides higher bandwidths and greatly reduces system power dissipation which will enable data center managers to save significantly on energy costs due to heat management. ”
The HXT/R4 family is designed for use in Active Optical Cables (AOC), SNAP12 and QSFP optical modules while serving the fast growing markets of high performance computing optical interconnects, switch and router optical backplanes and the new 40G and 100G Ethernet standards.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
GigOptix intros two single bias broadband power amplifiers
PALO ALTO, USA: GigOptix Inc., a leading provider of electronic engines for the optically connected digital world, extended its range of broadband amplifiers with the release of two new MMICs, the iT2003 and iT2004 power amplifiers. Both offer an operating range of 2-20GHz and are designed for use in military and defense applications such as microwave amplifier assemblies.
The iT2003 and iT2004 are highly efficient broadband GaAs MMIC traveling wave amplifiers with single bias operation. Single bias supply operation significantly eases the design challenge of the customer by removing the need for a complex biasing network to manage the bias sequencing. The iT2004 is designed for high output power applications, while the iT2003 supports medium output power applications.
The iT2004 provides a saturated output power of 29dBm up to 7 GHz, greater than 26 dBm up to 20 GHz. Average gain of 10 dB with flatness of +/-1 dB is provided up to 20 GHz. DC power consumption is as low as 3.0 W and the input/output ports are AC coupled.
The iT2003 provides a saturated output power close to 27dBm up to 8 GHz and greater than 25 dBm up to 16 GHz. The average gain is 15 dB. DC power consumption is as low as 1.76 W and the input/output ports are AC coupled.
“The launch of these two new products is just the first step GigOptix is taking to revitalize and strengthen our RF portfolio and to re-engage with customers in the RF field,” said Andrea Betti-Berutto, CTO at GigOptix. “The iT2003 and iT2004 are following our RF products ‘best in class’ tradition by offering the best power efficiency of any single bias broadband amplifier in the market today.”
Engineering samples of the iT2003 and iT2004 die are available along with a test fixture. Packaged versions will be developed later this year.
The iT2003 and iT2004 are highly efficient broadband GaAs MMIC traveling wave amplifiers with single bias operation. Single bias supply operation significantly eases the design challenge of the customer by removing the need for a complex biasing network to manage the bias sequencing. The iT2004 is designed for high output power applications, while the iT2003 supports medium output power applications.
The iT2004 provides a saturated output power of 29dBm up to 7 GHz, greater than 26 dBm up to 20 GHz. Average gain of 10 dB with flatness of +/-1 dB is provided up to 20 GHz. DC power consumption is as low as 3.0 W and the input/output ports are AC coupled.
The iT2003 provides a saturated output power close to 27dBm up to 8 GHz and greater than 25 dBm up to 16 GHz. The average gain is 15 dB. DC power consumption is as low as 1.76 W and the input/output ports are AC coupled.
“The launch of these two new products is just the first step GigOptix is taking to revitalize and strengthen our RF portfolio and to re-engage with customers in the RF field,” said Andrea Betti-Berutto, CTO at GigOptix. “The iT2003 and iT2004 are following our RF products ‘best in class’ tradition by offering the best power efficiency of any single bias broadband amplifier in the market today.”
Engineering samples of the iT2003 and iT2004 die are available along with a test fixture. Packaged versions will be developed later this year.
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