PhoXtal Touts OADM Wavelength SwitchPhoXtal Touts OADM Wavelength Switch

KISTA, Sweden -- PhoXtal Communications AB, supplier of super-integrated optical components for communications networks, has unveiled its first product, an OADM Wavelength Switch, at this year’s OFC Conference in Los Angeles, California. This initial offering establishes PhoXtal as a global competitor in the optical networking arena.

PhoXtal’s new OADM Wavelength Switch enables service providers to manage their DWDM networks up to 40% more efficiently, whilst leveraging their installed base by offering unprecedented simplicity to upgrade to more reconfigurable optical networks. It also enables systems suppliers to migrate their existing systems towards modern flexible architectures whilst preserving the same low cost points. The revolutionary design and the streamlined manufacturing process allow for exceptional price-performance.

Unique Technology

Nano-photonic periodic structures exhibit extraordinary properties for light propagating at wavelengths comparable to the periodicity of the structure. The most important property for telecommunications purposes is the possibility to integrate much functionality into innovative compact components previously impossible to realize using conventional integrated optics. PhoXtal benefits from research & development and fabrication in the fields of integrated optics and photonic crystals to realize components that match the current and projected market requirements.

“PhoXtal’s product is truly remarkable in its simplicity and ease-of-manufacturing”, says Professor Lars Thylén, CTO and founder. “It constitutes a unique combination of several key technologies and will set the standard for transmission and scaling performance. It is based on a long-standing active involvement of Sweden’s leading photonics researchers. We expect that the price performance of the product will make it an excellent catalyst for a new generation of low-cost flexible systems in the US and globally.”

The OADM Wavelength Switch which will be available for trial in the summer of 2004, will be presented at OFC February 24-26th.

PhoXtal Communications AB