Titan Intros AWG

FREMONT, Calif. -- Titan Photonics, a market leader in optical components and network subsystem by providing excellent engineering and product services, introduces Ultra Flat-Top Athermal Array Waveguide Grating (AAWG) 100GHz 40-Channel DWDM Module. This product provides the widest and flattest passband compared to any other AWG in the industry; and it is fully passive.

Titan’s ultra flat-top AAWG modules have bandwidth over 0.47 nm at -1.0 dB from the peak, comparing to 0.40 nm or less from other competitions. The insertion loss is less than 4.8dB while the adjacent isolation exceeds 26 dB over operating temperature from -5 to 65 oC.

Titan’s unique AAWG solution brings major performance and cost benefits to future optical network design. It eliminates the temperature control devices used in conventional AWG modules. The flat wide passband relaxes the need to control the transmitter wavelength to a precise value. The wide passband also allows system integrators to cascade multiple devices in the network span.

Titan’s AAWG has many advantages over traditional thin film filter (TFF) DWDM design. The size is only one-quarter of traditional cascaded TFF DWDM. Unlike thin film filter (TFF) DWDM, there is no splicing required inside the module, which it could potentially cause reliability problems. Another important advantage of AAWG is the cost, and the average cost of AAWG is only half of traditional TFF DWDM.

Titan Photonics Inc.