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Access, Enterprise and Metro

Access, Enterprise and Metro are Growth markets that are not well served by technology sourced from existing enterprise or telecom segments.

Existing products suffer from complex manufacturing and poor yield giving high production costs, and inconsistent product performance. Thereby they not only poorly address existing markets and applications but they are also incapable of enabling either advanced packaging such as PLCs or higher optoelectronic component integration.

Eblana's isolator-optional laser platform changes this:

• High data rate GEPON/GPON and Enterprise transceivers can be implemented without optical isolation using its single mode lasers

• The regrowth free nature of its products generates disruption on many dimensions; product quality, consistency, yield and price, but also on its customers manufacturing costs

• Eblana has a focus of meeting currently unmet Access and Enterprise/Metro market with its multiple disruptive and patented technologies

• Its laser technology permits use of a unique fab-less laser manufacturing model using standard I.C. Toolsets and processes for a capital efficient business model and cost-effective quality manufacture

• The technology uniquely enables advanced PLC packaging and higher optoelectronic component integration to better serve tomorrows applications

• Drop-in substitution for DFB components

(C)WDM

Eblana Photonics laser components have extremely high spectral purity even in the presence of intense optical reflection. This feature facilitates an unprecedented level of performance with respect to all WDM channel separation requirements without the need for optical isolation

Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is the technology which enables information transmission on discrete wavelength channels or colours of light. Each information channel is separated by a fixed wavelength spacing or colour separation.

In high bit rate PON systems the key wavelength channels are widely separated at 1.31 um, 1.49 um and 1.5 um. Eblana supplies lasers for all of these channels

CWDM refers to a more coarse grained implementation of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM). In this CWDM, high aggregate bandwidth systems are realised with uncooled, single mode lasers emitting in coarsely spaced channels where each wavelength channel has a width of approximately 20 nm. CWDM systems are implemented in both the both 1.3 um and 1.5 um transmission windows. A common Enterprise application in the 1.3 um window is the LX4 or IEEE 802.3ae 10Gbase-LX4 10Gbit/s transceiver which is realized using 4 X 3.125 GBit/s separate single wavelength laser channels in the 1.3 um spectral window.

For these (C)WDM applications, Eblana's feedback insensitivity single mode lasers,offer substantive improvements over designs using traditional DFB components, particularly in Bill of Materials (BOM) reduction, manufacturing cost reduction of transceiver modules but also in module size reduction due to the removal of optical isolators.

last updated Friday, 28, March, 2008   |   copyright © 2005 Eblana Photonics Ltd.