News and BusinessLumentum Holdings has announced the completion of its deal to buy out NeoPhotonics. As previously announced, Lumentum anticipates achieving more than an estimated US$50 million in annual run-rate synergies within 24 months of the closing of the transaction. Lumentum financed the transaction consideration with cash from the combined companies’ balance sheets. Under the terms of […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics Corporation has launched a new radiation tolerant version of its Nano ultra-pure light tuneable laser which has been designed for use in low earth orbit satellite communications applications. The company’s current Nano-ITLA laser is in high volume production for terrestrial fibre optics applications and is used by many of the leading optical networking companies […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics Corporation has announced sample availability for its Open ZR+ QSFP-DD transceivers. Based on its optical components, ultra-low noise tuneable lasers and 400ZR design, the Open ZR+ version of the QSFP-DD uses the Marvell® Deneb™ Coherent DSP (CDSP) to incorporate industry-standard Open Forward Error Correction (OFEC). The company says that by using OFEC, the rOSNR […]
News and BusinessLumentum Holdings and NeoPhotonics Corporation have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Lumentum will acquire NeoPhotonics for US$16.00 per share in cash, which represents a total equity value of approximately US$918 million. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies. Lumentum says the […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics Corporation has launched a tuneable high-power frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) laser module and high-power semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) chips. Both components are optimised to enable long range automotive LiDAR and high-resolution industrial sensing applications. The FMCW Laser is C-band tuneable and can be directly modulated to provide >21dBm (126mW) fibre coupled power and a narrow […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics Corporation has announced a high output power version of its 400G Multi-Rate CFP2-DCO coherent pluggable transceiver with 0 dBm output power and designed to operate in metro, regional and long haul ROADM based optical networks. The module is based on NeoPhotonics vertically integrated Indium Phosphide technology platform, including its ultra-pure Nano tunable laser and […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics has announced that its QSFP-DD and OSFP 400ZR pluggable modules are generally available and are shipping to customers. These pluggables feature NeoPhotonics’ Silicon Photonics Coherent Optical Subassembly (COSA), low power consumption and a ultra-narrow linewidth Nano-ITLA tuneable laser, combined with the latest generation of 7nm node DSP technology. They provide full 400ZR transmission in […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics Corporation says it has used its Multi-Rate CFP2-DCO coherent pluggable transceivers to effectively transmit at a 400 Gbps over a distance of 1,500 km in a 75 GHz-spaced DWDM network. The 1500 km demonstration was carried out on NeoPhotonics Transmission System Testbed using production modules with enhanced firmware and utilised 75 GHz spaced channels, […]
Product FocusNeoPhotonics Corporation has demonstrated that its 400ZR+ QSFP-DD coherent pluggable transceiver can effectively transmit at a 400 Gbps data rate over a distance of 800 km in a 75 GHz-spaced DWDM system with more than 3.5 dB of OSNR margin in the optical signal. The transceiver module is based on NeoPhotonics high-performance coherent optics and […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics has announced availability of its extended case temperature QSFP-DD 400G ZR modules with an operating temperature range of up to 80oC. The 400G ZR modules utilise NeoPhotonics’ coherent optical components including its Silicon Photonics Coherent Optical Subassembly (COSA) and low power consumption, ultra-narrow linewidth Nano-ITLA tuneable laser. Each of these components can be operated […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics Corporation has added Class 60 versions of its Coherent Driver-Modulator (CDM) and Intradyne Coherent Receiver (Micro-ICR) to its suite of High Bandwidth Coherent components, addressing the next generation of 100+ Gbaud systems to meet the ongoing growth in demand for bandwidth, especially between cloud data centres. Optical performance improvement due to increased baud rates […]
Technologies and ProductsInphi and NeoPhotonics have jointly completed the industry’s first interoperability demonstration of OIF 400ZR Implementation Agreement compliant coherent transceivers, operating successfully across the C-Band over 120km of optical fibre. Transceiver pairs consisting of Inphi’s COLORZ® II QSFP-DD with its Canopus™ 7nm Coherent DSP and NeoPhotonics 400ZR ClearLightTM OSFP were successfully linked. Both 400ZR coherent optics […]
Applications and ResearchNeoPhotonics has completed experimental verification of the transmission of 400Gbps data over data centre interconnect (DCI) ZR distances in a 75 GHz spaced DWDM channel. The company says it achieved two milestones using its interoperable pluggable 400ZR coherent modules and its specially designed athermal arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexers (MUX) and de-multiplexers (DMUX). First, data […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics has announced general availability and volume production of its 64 GBaud High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator (HB-CDM). This CDM joins NeoPhotonics’ 64 GBaud Coherent Intradyne Receiver (ICR) and ultra-narrow linewidth tunable laser to enable single channel 600G data transmission over data centre interconnect (DCI) distances of approximately 80 km using 64 QAM. These components […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics Corporation has announced it is sampling high-power Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs) and Narrow Linewidth (NLW) Distributed Feedback Lasers (DFB) lasers for long range automotive Lidar applications. NeoPhotonics SOAs and NLW lasers operate in eye-safe wavelength regions, and these offerings feature 1550nm wavelength SOAs with >24 dBm (>250mW) output power along with 1550nm NLW-DFB lasers […]
Technologies and ProductsHybrid photonic IC-based module and subsystem specialist NeoPhotonics Corp has sampled its new 400ZR ClearLight™ OSFP transceiver to a leading but unnamed cloud-related customer. The product utilises NeoPhotonics’ Silicon Photonics Coherent Optical Subassembly (COSA) and low power consumption, ultra-narrow linewidth Nano-ITLA tunable laser, along with 7 nm node DSP technology. This combination provides full 400ZR […]
Technologies and ProductsHybrid photonic IC-based module and subsystem specialist NeoPhotonics Corp has shipped its new 400G-capable ClearLight™ CFP2-DCO transceiver for end-customer trials. The device is billed as the industry’s first transceiver module able to deliver as much as 32 Tbps of capacity per fibre – significantly higher than today’s 200G CFP2-DCO capacity, or the emerging 400G CFP2-DCO […]
Product FocusNeoPhotonics Corporation has announced the introduction and initial shipments of new Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) multiplexers and de-multiplexers for high capacity, high baud rate, coherent transmission systems. The new AWGs are based on NeoPhotonics high volume, high reliability Planar Lightwave Circuit platform and offer channel spacings from 75 GHz to 150 GHz and channel counts […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics Corporation, which designs and manufactures advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based modules, has announced at OFC the limited availability of its Nano ultra-compact external cavity integrated tunable laser assembly (ITLA). The Nano-ITLA is based on the same high-performance external cavity architecture as NeoPhotonics’ Micro-ITLA product line. Further, the Nano-ITLA maintains comparable ultra-narrow linewidth, low frequency […]
Technologies and ProductsNeoPhotonics has announced the general availability of its new ultra-compact FVOA-9000 MEMs-based Variable Optical Attenuator. The FVOA-9000 extends the high performance and high reliability record from NeoPhotonics FVOA-5000/8000 product line which has been in volume production for more than a decade. This new FVOA-9000 again improves key performance measures while achieving a significant size reduction […]