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OCP announces its 1.3 micron VCSEL development program has accomplished several key performance and reliability milestones
February 24, 2004
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. -- Optical Communication Products, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCPI), a manufacturer of fiber optic subsystems and modules for metropolitan area, local area and storage area networks, today announced that their 1.3 micron Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) development program has successfully accomplished several key performance and reliability milestones.
"Results of long wavelength VCSEL performance have been reported by many companies around the world," said Dr. Muoi Van Tran, OCP's Chairman and CEO. "However, to ensure the successful commercialization of long wavelength VCSELs, two key issues have to be addressed: manufacturability and reliability. Since our acquisition of the assets and intellectual property of Cielo Communications in October 2002, OCP has devoted much effort in this area. We are pleased to report that with the results that we have achieved, our long wavelength VCSELs are now ready for commercialization."
OCP's 1.3 micron VCSELs have a typical peak power output of 3mW at room temperature and 1.2mW at 90 degrees C. These results are routinely achieved and have been reproduced across numerous wafers. In addition, operating temperature range of up to +130 degrees Celsius has been demonstrated.
OCP has also been performing a rigorous reliability program for this 1.3 micron VCSEL device. A median life for wear out of 1.5 million hours (170 years) at 40 degrees C and a mean time to failure of 25 million hours (2,850 years) at 40 degrees C have been achieved.
In a separate release:
Optical Communication Products, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCPI), a manufacturer of fiber optic subsystems and modules for metropolitan, local and storage area networks, today announced the release of the nLIGHTEN(TM) 2300 product family. The 12-channel transmit/receive pair provides a high-density interconnect solution for short-reach data communication applications.
"We are continuing to expand our product portfolio to address the growing diversity of customer applications and requirements," added Kirk Bovill, director of marketing. "There has been a renewed interest in high-density short-reach interconnects and we are in a position to support it with the nLIGHTEN(TM) 2300 product family."
These 12-channel modules operate at data rates up to 2.7Gb/s per channel, providing an aggregate bandwidth of 32.6Gb/s for 850nm-based short reach applications. The transmit and receive pair offer the advantages of high data transfer, low power consumption and small size, which are required for the next generation of equipment interconnects. The product is based on the technology that OCP gained through the acquisition of the assets and intellectual property of Gore Photonics Parallel Optical Module Business in January 2003.
In accordance to the SNAP-12 MSA, both modules use industry standard IEC 1754-7 MPO connector receptacles for optical cable connections and industry-standard 100-pin matrix-array connectors for electrical connections. The modules offer very low power consumption with the transmitter and receiver pair consuming 1.9 watts typical and 2.7 watts maximum.
In an additional release:
Optical Communication Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCPI), a manufacturer of fiber optic subsystems and modules for metropolitan area, local area and storage area networks, today announced the availability of its multi-rate OC-48 Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) small form pluggable (SFP) transceiver with integrated digital diagnostics monitoring (DDM) to support long distance metropolitan area networking (MAN) applications.
“We have added OC-48/STM-16 options to our portfolio of CWDM SFP products. OCP now provides a very extensive SFP product offering, covering all SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel applications,” said Kirk Bovill, director of marketing. “The OC-48/STM-16 Intermediate Reach IR-2 option with a 40km reach is shipping now and the Long Reach LR-2 version with a reach of 80km will be available in March 2004. We are pleased to be able to provide our customer base with a very complete solution set of OC-48 SFP modules.”
OCP's OC-48 CWDM SFP multi-rate transceivers are available in eight wavelength channels, at nominally 1470nm, 1490nm, 1510nm, 1530nm, 1550nm, 1570nm, 1590nm and 1610nm. Color-coded latches are used to identify the different wavelengths.
Optical Communication Products Inc. (OCPI)
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