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Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 4:07PM
"The performance [of gallium arsenide] is very similar to the lithium niobate modulator"
Jens Fiedler, u2t Photonics
Monday, May 13, 2013 at 8:03AM Kaiam Corp. has secured US $16M in C-round funding and completed the acquisition of Gemfire.
"We have a micro-machine technology that allows us to use standard pick-and-place electronic assembly tools, and with our micro-machine, we achieve sub-micron alignment tolerances suitable for single-mode applications"
Byron Trop, Kaiam
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 9:43AM Effdon Networks has demonstrated a 100 Gigabit CFP module with an 80km reach; a claimed industry first. The company has also developed the Qbox, a 1 rack unit (1RU) extended reach platform capable of 400-800 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) with a reach of 80-200km.
Effdon's CFP does not require the use of external DWDM multiplexing/ demultiplexing and can be added directly onto a router. Source: Effdon Networks
Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 9:56AM Gazettabyte spoke with Jörg-Peter Elbers, vice president, advanced technology at ADVA Optical Networking about the state of the optical industry following the recent OFC/NFOEC exhibition.
"There were many people in the OFC workshops talking about getting rid of pluggability and the cages and getting the stuff mounted on the printed circuit board instead, as a cheaper, more scalable approach"
Jörg-Peter Elbers, ADVA Optical Networking
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 7:20AM Technology briefing: ROADMs and amplifiers
Oclaro announced an add/drop routing platform at the recent OFC/NFOEC show. The company explains how the platform is driving new arrayed amplifier and pumping requirements.
A ROADM comprising amplification, line-interfaces, add/ drop routing and transponders. Source: Oclaro
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 6:08PM 
"One hundred Gig metro has become critical in terms of new [operator] wins"
Michael Adams, Ciena
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 7:29AM Second and final part
Add/drop platform and wavelength-selective switches
Oclaro announced an add/drop routing platform for next-generation reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs). The platform, which supports colourless, directionless, contentionless (CDC) and flexible grid ROADMs, can be tailored to a system vendor's requirements and includes such functions as cross-connect switching, arrayed amplifiers and optical channel monitors.
"If we make the whole thing [add/drop platform], we can integrate in a much better way"
Per Hansen, Oclaro
