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Hengtong Appeared at MWC2024

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Friday, March 1, 2024

Hengtong is committed to the design and manufacture of high-end optical transceivers.

Key Points: 
  • Hengtong is committed to the design and manufacture of high-end optical transceivers.
  • Hengtong has recently launched its innovative "Swift ODN Pre-Connection Solution" to meet the growing needs of the global FTTH market.
  • Hengtong has launched ten solutions in combination with wireless access products.
  • Hengtong adheres to the customer-first and technical innovation-oriented philosophy, and continuously helps customers build optical interconnection networks that are ultra-wide, intelligent, and open.

Hengtong Appeared at MWC2024

Retrieved on: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Hengtong is committed to the design and manufacture of high-end optical transceivers.

Key Points: 
  • Hengtong is committed to the design and manufacture of high-end optical transceivers.
  • Hengtong has recently launched its innovative "Swift ODN Pre-Connection Solution" to meet the growing needs of the global FTTH market.
  • Hengtong has launched ten solutions in combination with wireless access products.
  • Hengtong adheres to the customer-first and technical innovation-oriented philosophy, and continuously helps customers build optical interconnection networks that are ultra-wide, intelligent, and open.

POET Technologies Announces ZKTel as Customer and Collaborator

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

POET and ZKTel have been collaborating to develop a 100G CWDM4 optical transceiver module using POET optical engines supplied by POET’s joint venture company, Super Photonics Xiamen (SPX).

Key Points: 
  • POET and ZKTel have been collaborating to develop a 100G CWDM4 optical transceiver module using POET optical engines supplied by POET’s joint venture company, Super Photonics Xiamen (SPX).
  • POET developed the product to suit ZKTel’s desired designs, demonstrating the flexibility of the optical interposer technology.
  • POET creates a low barrier to entry into the single-mode optics marketplace for ZKTel.
  • However, since ZKTel is in advanced stages of its module development, ZKTel expects to ramp to volume production in the second half of 2024.

FiberGuide Unveils 2024 OTT Optical Network Training Workshops

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- FiberGuide, a prominent training and consulting company headquartered in Northern Virginia, is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated schedule for its cutting-edge OTT optical network training workshops set to take place in the first half of 2024. These intensive 5-day career development training workshops will be hosted in the vibrant locales of Arlington and McLean, Virginia. Practicing and prospective optical network engineers alike are encouraged to explore the FiberGuide Optical Network training page for comprehensive event details.

Key Points: 
  • Practicing and prospective optical network engineers alike are encouraged to explore the FiberGuide Optical Network training page for comprehensive event details.
  • The OTT optical network training programs, supported by an expansive global network of training partners, including FiberGuide, are uniquely poised to meet the industry's training challenges.
  • FiberGuide is renowned for its array of OTT optical network training courses, including the Optical Network Associate (CONA) and the Optical Network Engineer (CONE) programs.
  • "The OTT optical network training programs, supported by an expansive global network of training partners, including FiberGuide, are uniquely poised to meet the industry's training challenges," he explained.

POET’s JV, Super Photonics Xiamen, Expands Production Capacity to Support Customer Demand

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

“SPX has received purchase orders from customers, and we are excited about the strong demand for the POET engines in 2024 and beyond.

Key Points: 
  • “SPX has received purchase orders from customers, and we are excited about the strong demand for the POET engines in 2024 and beyond.
  • Our team has placed orders for additional precision die bonders, testers and additional equipment that will expand production capacity to fulfill the customer orders on hand and expected in the near future,” said Xiaozhong Zheng, CEO of SPX.
  • Compared to modules built with conventional chip-on-board and silicon photonics-based components, POET’s optical engines are highly differentiated, hybrid-integrated products.
  • “Some of our transmit and receive optical engines are already in low-volume production and we expect to add a few more products to the production list by end of the year.

Coherent Wins ECOC 2023 Award for Most Innovative Product With 200G PAM4 Mach-Zehnder Modulated Semiconductor Laser

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

This PIC enables 200G per lane in both retimed and linear pluggable 800G and 1.6T transceivers.

Key Points: 
  • This PIC enables 200G per lane in both retimed and linear pluggable 800G and 1.6T transceivers.
  • The 200G PAM4 DFB-MZ was first demonstrated at OFC 2023 in March.
  • Coherent is again showing a live demonstration of the 200G PAM4 DFB-MZ at ECOC 2023, this week in Glasgow, Scotland, Stand #406.
  • This live demonstration showcases the DFB-MZ that transmits a 200G PAM4 signal over a 6 km fiber.

Coherent to Demonstrate Next-Generation Transceiver and Semiconductor Laser Technology for 800G and 1.6T Transmission in AI Networks at ECOC 2023

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Monday, October 2, 2023

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in optical communications components and subsystems, today announced that it will demonstrate next-generation transceivers and laser technology for 800G and 1.6T datacom transmission at ECOC 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland, October 2-4, stand #406. Such advances are critical to sustaining the accelerating growth of the cloud driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).

Key Points: 
  • Such advances are critical to sustaining the accelerating growth of the cloud driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).
  • This live demonstration will showcase an 800G transceiver in an OSFP form factor with four CWDM wavelengths, each operating at 200G PAM4, and an 8x100G PAM4 electrical interface.
  • This technology is expected to form the core of the second generation of 800G transceivers and the first generation of 1.6T transceivers.
  • Coherent works with optical industrial leaders and customers to provide interoperable LPO transceivers for the next generation of AI/ML applications.

Coherent to Hold Industry-First Live Demonstration of 200G PAM4 Mach-Zehnder Modulated Laser Technology at OFC 2023

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

PITTSBURGH, March 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in optical communications components and subsystems, today announced that it will hold a live demonstration of its 200G four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) Mach-Zehnder modulated laser technology at OFC 2023 in San Diego, March 7-9, booth #3815.

Key Points: 
  • PITTSBURGH, March 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in optical communications components and subsystems, today announced that it will hold a live demonstration of its 200G four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) Mach-Zehnder modulated laser technology at OFC 2023 in San Diego, March 7-9, booth #3815.
  • This live demonstration will showcase a distributed feedback laser (DFB) and Mach-Zehnder modulator combined monolithically in a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that enables 200G PAM4 for 1.6T transceivers with up to 10 km reach.
  • “This is to our knowledge the industry’s first such laser technology demonstration.
  • It will enable higher-performance longer-reach PAM4 optical links.”
    The differential drive of the DFB-MZ laser achieves superior signal integrity, particularly in higher-density multichannel designs.

Mitsubishi Electric Develops 200Gbps (112Gbaud PAM4) EML Chip Supporting Four CWDM Signals

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Thursday, March 2, 2023

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has developed a 200Gbps (112Gbaud four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4)) electro-absorption modulator laser diode (EML) chip that doubles the speed of the company's existing 100Gbps EML chip thanks to a proprietary hybrid waveguide structure.

Key Points: 
  • Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has developed a 200Gbps (112Gbaud four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4)) electro-absorption modulator laser diode (EML) chip that doubles the speed of the company's existing 100Gbps EML chip thanks to a proprietary hybrid waveguide structure.
  • Support for coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) of four wavelengths realizes 800Gbps transmission using four chips or 1.6Tbps using eight chips.
  • Mitsubishi Electric will present its new chip at the Optical Fiver Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2023 in San Diego, USA this March 5-9.
  • High-speed operation of up to 200Gbps, high extinction ratio and high output power are achieved with Mitsubishi Electric’s unique hybrid waveguide structure, which combines a buried heterostructure laser diode for high optical-output power and a high-mesa waveguide electro absorption modulator.

Coherent Introduces 100G PAM4 VCSEL and Photodiode Arrays for 800G Transceivers and Active Optical Cables

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in datacom transceiver components, today announced the introduction of its 100G PAM4 vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) and photodiode (PD) arrays for 800G short-reach datacom pluggable transceivers and active optical cables (AOCs.)

Key Points: 
  • PITTSBURGH, Feb. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in datacom transceiver components, today announced the introduction of its 100G PAM4 vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) and photodiode (PD) arrays for 800G short-reach datacom pluggable transceivers and active optical cables (AOCs.)
  • Cloud and AI service providers are ramping up deployments of short-reach 800G transceivers and AOCs for their megascale datacenter buildouts.
  • Coherent introduced eight-element VCSEL arrays, where each VCSEL can be modulated at 100 Gbps using a four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) format.
  • The VCSEL arrays can be paired with Coherent’s new 100 Gbps PAM4 high-speed PD arrays.