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Eblana Photonics announces the release of its 100kHz ultra-narrow linewidth laser diode for use in communications, sensor and medical applications

San Francisco, January 26th 2010 - Eblana Photonics Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) has announced the introduction of a 1550nm, 100kHz emission linewidth laser to expand its existing EP1550-NLW-B narrow linewidth product series. This addition to Eblana's product portfolio provides a further 50% reduction in guaranteed linewidth over Eblana's existing narrow linewidth products and will provide designers with even further scope for maximising system performance while taking advantage of the benefits provided by Eblana's high performance technology platform. More

An Enterprise Ireland client - Eblana Photonics - has won a significant European Space Agency (ESA) contract to develop lasers for use in the most precise atomic clocks that have ever been proposed.

Dublin, September 10th 2009 - An Enterprise Ireland client - Eblana Photonics - has won a significant European Space Agency (ESA) contract to develop lasers for use in the most precise atomic clocks that have ever been proposed. 'Atomic clocks' are the world's most accurate clocks and are used in the existing European Galileo satellite system design used for global positioning. These satellite-borne clocks must be highly accurate and stable since a deviation of even one nanosecond timing in these clocks produces a positional error on the ground of 30cm. More

Eblana Photonics expands its ultra-narrow linewidth laser diode range introducing products with emission linewidths reduced below 200kHz for use in communications, sensor and medical applications.

Dublin, January 26th 2009 - Eblana Photonics Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) has announced the introduction of a 1550nm, 200 kHz emission linewidth laser to expand its existing EP1550-NLW-B Narrow Linewidth product series. This addition to Eblana's product portfolio provides a 50% reduction in guaranteed linewidth over Eblana’s existing narrow linewidth products and will provide designers with even further scope for maximising system performance while taking advantage of the benefits provided by Eblana’s low cost manufacturing platform. More

Eblana Photonics extends ultra-narrow linewidth laser diode product line to include 400kHz Butterfly Module emitting at 1550 nm for use in communications, sensor and medical applications.

Dublin, July 25th 2008 - Eblana Photonics Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) has announced that it has completed development of its EP1550-NLW-B Narrow Linewidth semiconductor laser product series and has begun commercial shipments. This latest product series complements Eblana's existing product portfolio for applications such as GPON, GEPON, CATV and Sonet/SDH. More

Eblana Photonics announces first shipments of ultra-narrow linewidth, low noise laser diodes emitting at lambda = 1310 nm and 1550 nm.

Dublin, 13th September 2007 - Eblana Photonics Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) has announced first shipments of single wavelength laser diodes for analog and other applications that demand ultra-narrow linewidth and low phase noise operation. This latest product series extends and complements Eblana's existing family of cutting edge laser products which target high volume applications such as GPON, 10GBASE-LR/LRM/LW and 10.0G Fibre Channel. More

Eblana Photonics announces 10Gbit/s line-rate laser diodes emitting at 1310 nm for use in mass market enterprise applications

Dublin, March 22nd 2007 - Eblana Photonics Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) has announced that it has extended its laser product offerings to incorporate lasers for use in IEEE 802.3ae 10G Ethernet, 10GBASE-LR/LRM/LW and 10.0G Fibre Channel applications. This latest product series extends and complements Eblana's existing family of isolator-free laser products that operate uncooled over the industrial temperature range of -40 °C to +85°C and which target high volume applications such as GPON. More

Eblana Photonics announces shipment of DM lasers into GPON and other extended temperature range transceivers.

Dublin Ireland, March 20th, 2007 - Eblana Photonics Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) has announced first shipments of extended range (-40°C to 85°C), single wavelength laser diodes for GPON and other transceiver applications. The EP1310-DM-XXXX-Q product series provides GPON transceiver vendors with the lowest total transceiver production cost since, in addition to its low price, the isolator-free product capability shrinks the transceiver BOM and simplifies and reduces the transceiver cost of manufacture. More

Eblana Photonics announces new TO-38 based TOSAs - Targeted at 4Gbit/s Fiber Channel applications in the 1310 nm wavelength band.

Dublin Ireland, March 6th, 2006 - Eblana Photonics Ltd, which supplies market disrupting laser components for leading edge advanced networking applications, today annnounced a breakthrough laser product targeted at single mode 4Gbit/s Fiber Channel applications. This product series, the EP1310-FC4X and its TOSA version, the EP1310-FC4X-OSA, expands on Eblana’s recently announced LDM product series for 10GBASE-LX4 applications and the 1310nm DFB laser replacement, the EP1310-DM laser series which is targeted at price sensitive Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) GEPON PX20 and GPON applications. More

Eblana Photonics announces new pricing initiative for its single-mode, isolator-free 1310 nm DM Lasers

Dublin Ireland, February 28th, 2006 - Eblana Photonics Ltd, a leading manufacturer of PON oriented single wavelength laser components, today announced a further pricing initiative for its EP1310 DM laser series, setting the base price of a high-performance, 1310nm DFB laser replacement laser diode at only $9.95. This pricing will apply to sustained high volume orders of TO56 based product versions, thus addressing the deployment needs of growing Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) GEPON PX20 and GPON markets. Eblana's single mode DM lasers incorporate its unique NFI (nullified feedback influence) technology. NFI provides for superb RIN15OMA noise performance which is in excess of the IEEE 802.3 ah standard requirements without the need for an optical isolator. More

Eblana Photonics releases LX4 Laser Diode product series

Dublin, February 7th 2006 - Eblana Photonics Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) has announced the availability of a series of high-performance, single-wavelength Laser Diodes for IEEE 802.3ae-2002 10GBASE-LX4 applications. This product series builds on Eblana's existing isolator-free, single-wavelength Laser Diode products which are being deployed extensively by PON equipment manufacturers in preference to traditional DFB based transceivers whose manufacturing costs are prohibitive for mass market applications. More

Eblana Photonics announces feedback insensitive single mode laser diodes for mass market applications and offers these products at less than the price of a standard optical isolator to enable lower price floors for mass-market broadband optical transceivers.

Dublin, March 3rd 2005 - Eblana Photonics Ltd (Dublin, Ireland) has today announced availability of a breakthrough series of low priced uncooled single mode laser products designed for mass market applications. This product series exploits Eblana's NFI (Nullified Feedback Influence) Technology to eliminate the need for optical isolators when single mode lasers are employed in optical communications. NFI technology is a laser chip based approach which is an integrated extension to its existing PGB (Photon Bandgap) laser technology platform. More

Eblana Photonics and Vitesse Alliance Results in Major Breakthrough in Laser Fabrication Technology

27th January, 2005 Camarillo, Calif., Dublin, Ireland, Eblana Photonics and Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: VTSS) today announced a manufacturing relationship for low-threshold, high-quality, single-mode laser diodes on Vitesse's 4" Indium Phosphide (InP) Integrated Circuit Fabrication Line. More

Eblana Photonics low astigmatism laser sources save cost and improves time to market for Broadband and Enterprise transceiver modules.

8th September, 2004, Dublin, Ireland - Eblana Photonics, a leader in the design and manufacture of laser products for high speed broadband Access and Enterprise networks, today announced that it is commencing shipment of a new generation of edge emitting laser diodes which feature circular, non-astigmatic far-field emission patterns. More

Eblana Announces TOSA Product Line Offering

29th June, 2004, Dublin - Eblana Photonics. (Dublin, Ireland) today announced a new product line of TOSA (Transmitter Optical Sub-Assembly) laser sources for use in optical fiber communication applications, such as Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel. More

Eblana Further Extends Broadband Laser Product-Line and Announces a TS1000 Focussed PON Laser Transmitter

17th February 2004, Dublin, Ireland - Eblana Photonics, who specialize in the production of precision laser components for broadband access communications, has announced the availability of a new high performance uncooled laser diode emitting at 1.5 mm wavelength for use in optical fibre based FTTH/FTTP and PON applications. More

Eblana Photonics Appoints Head of Sales for North America

17th February 2004, Dublin, Ireland - Eblana Photonics, which supplies high precision laser products for optical access communications has announced the addition of Daniel Tine as Head of North American Sales and Business Development. More

Eblana Extends Broadband Laser Product-Line

2nd July 2003, Dublin, Ireland - Eblana Photonics, who specialize in the production of affordable laser components for broadband communications, has announced availability of a new high performance uncooled laser diode emitting at 1490 nm wavelength for optical fibre based FTTH/FTTP applications. This new product (EP1490) completes Eblana's highly regarded broadband-oriented product set, which already includes affordable 1550 nm and 1310 nm laser wavelengths. More

Eblana Photonics Integrates Palomar Technologies' Laser Diode Attach Assembly Cell into its Volume Manufacturing Line

Vista, Calif. - March 23, 2003 - Palomar Technologies announces that Eblana Photonics, Dublin, Ireland, has purchased an LDA (Laser Diode Attach) automated assembly cell for use in Eblana's integrated volume manufacturing line for making lasers for broadband access. Eblana serves the high volume component demands of the Metro and Access market sectors. Their technology platform has properties that enable manufacturing efficiencies on a large scale. Palomar's LDA completely automates the assembly of laser diode components into the laser diode package with 5 micron accuracy for a controlled and repeatable process with high yield and reduced cost. More

Eblana Photonics raises $4.5m in Series B funding

11 February 2003 - Eblana Photonics, the Irish based provider of advanced laser products for broadband access communications, has announced that the company has secured a $4.5 million investment in a 'Series B' fundraising. The latest investment has been led by TLCom Capital Partners, the London-based pan-European venture capital firm specialising in the communications and information technologies sector. This round brings the total funds raised by Eblana Photonics, founded in December 2000, to $7.75 million. Existing investors, ACT Venture Capital and Enterprise Ireland, also participated in the financing. More

Eblana Photonics growth drive continues as funding reaches EUR 3.6 million

June 6, 2002, Dublin - Eblana Photonics, a newly established provider of advanced laser communications products, has announced new funding that brings its total investment to EUR 3.6 million in just over one year.

Eblana Photonics is a spin out from Trinity College Dublin, the Irish National Microelectronics Research Centre and Enterprise Ireland, who are shareholders in the company. Other investment in the Company comes from a combination of Irish and US private equity sources. The new funding is being provided by ACT Venture Capital and Enterprise Ireland. More

Start-up company makes breakthrough in photonics

October 1, 2001, Amsterdam - Eblana Photonics, a newly established provider of leading edge laser products to the telecommunications industry, has announced a new generation of transmitter source and high power pump lasers for optical communications. These initial products are derived from Eblana's proprietary technology platform that uniquely allow high volume manufacture of high performance laser components. Eblana's breakthrough will enable communication system manufacturers to meet the ongoing demand for greater communications bandwidth, faster and more cost effectively. More

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