FREMONT, Calif. -- Optoplex announced today its release of FlexCombä product line for a bi-directional flat-top and high isolation optical comb filter, and its engagement with major customers for design-in activities.

In contrast with traditional Fabry-Perot cavity based comb filter, FlexCombä is capable of transmitting modulated DWDM signals with its passband width available anywhere from 75% of the channel spacing down to a few pm. Both the filter channel spacing (FSR) and filter duty cycle (3-dB bandwidth to FSR ratio) can be specified by customers. As customers in optical transport equipment and instrumentation industries have described, this filter has superior performance traditional approaches and opens a whole new playing-field of applications from noise suppression for multi-wavelength laser or low-power signal filtering to multi-channel optical transmission.

Based on Optoplex’s patented technologies of micro-optics and phase modulation through thin-film coating, FlexCombä is a pure passive device characterized by minimal temperature dependence, flat passband, high channel isolation, low PDL, and uniform insertion loss. FlexCombä is a Telcordia GR-1221 qualified product.

With the introduction of FlexCombä, Optoplex once again demonstrates its technical innovation in designing new components to solve today’s most challenging optical communication, monitoring, and testing problems.

Optoplex Corp.