This one's very important, Auric, and refutes your malignment, as well.
Dr. Pierre Bernard, VP, product Tech & Dev
From news release: biz.yahoo.com
Dr. Pierre Bernard, Vice President, Product and Technology Development comments, ``The key to this GEN3 collimator's breakthrough performance is in the collimating lens. We have successfully adapted the laser polishing process to reshape the lens surface to within a millionth of an inch of its ideal shape. The result is insertion loss as close to zero as has ever been achieved. As we transition this process into manufacturing, we expect positive impact on other parts of the process, such as the laser fusion step
used to join the fiber and the lens. Using a tighter fiber to lens alignment tolerance, we aim to hold the pointing accuracy of this new product to better than 0.1 degree, a further step toward the perfect collimator.'
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Dr. Bernard's full-time entry to LP came after he had served as a consultant to LP.
lightpath.com
Select [News] scroll down to June 17th, 1999.
"Dr. Bernard has collaborated with LightPath for the past 12 months on the development of the collimator product and process. More specifically, he designed and built the advanced automation systems employed by LightPath for the fabrication and testing of the fiber collimator assemblies. In his new role as Director of Product Development for LightPath, Dr. Bernard will initially be responsible for completing the development of the fiber switch products recently licensed from Herzel Laor. This effort will be conducted jointly with Kaifa Technology, Inc. as previously announced by the Company. He will also have broad responsibility for the design and development of new products and processes currently under investigation in the area of optical networking components and subsystems.
Mark Fitch, Sr., VP responsible for Sales and Marketing continued, "Dr. Bernard's laser fusion process is a fundamental breakthrough in fiber optic component technology. It has allowed us to deliver a value-added collimator assembly with a very favorable cost structure. Of equal importance is that this technology gives us the ability to readily customize the product and provides us with the flexibility to address both current customer requirements as well as future product releases now under development. We are thrilled to have him on the team."
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Automated Fiber Optic Fusion & Polishing Process
Sept, 99 & Feb 23, 2000 (further below)
Fiber Optic Fusion Process Yields High Power Capability
(September 8, 1999) - ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - LightPath Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:LPTHA) announced today notification by the United States Patent and Trademark
Office of the allowance of its patent filing for the Company's revolutionary process to fuse optical
fibers directly to larger optical components such as collimating lenses.
The laser fusion process is the cornerstone of the Company's line of single mode fiber collimating
products. Employing advanced automation equipment that precisely aligns then fuses optical fiber
directly to their lens, the Company has developed a line of collimators that redefines performance
and cost standards. A fiber collimator is a basic component of telecommunication products such as
isolators, mechanical switches, couplers, circulators, optical switches and wavelength division
multiplexers.
In addition to the normal performance criteria used to measure these devices, the Company has had
its fiber collimators tested for high power handling capability. Due to its unique design and
manufacture, power levels in excess of 9 Watts were easily reached without any indication of
damage. This represents a factor of ten increase over the power that competitive products are
capable of handling. The Company believes that potential applications exist in the areas of high
pump power amplifiers and fiber lasers.
Mark Fitch, Sr. Vice President, explains the significance of the technology, "The allowance of this
broad patent application by the USPTO validates the uniqueness and innovation LightPath is
bringing to the optical components marketplace. The key technical breakthrough was in
understanding how to utilize high power lasers to fuse optical materials of very different sizes
together, as is the case with lenses and fibers. This fundamentally new process solves one of the
most difficult problems faced in component and device manufacturing, the fiber interface. By
attaching fibers directly to other optical components without using epoxies or special termination
techniques, costs are reduced, environmental stability is improved, alignment accuracy is enhanced,
and power handling is dramatically increased. Although the automated technology was originally
developed specifically in response to demand for low cost collimators, we also see numerous
product applications that will benefit from this fundamental breakthrough. "
Don Lawson, President and CEO commented, "The addition of this patent to our intellectual
property portfolio is significant. It represents a strategic broadening of our base technical
capabilities that we will continue to build on as we bring additional optical networking products to
the telecommunications marketplace."
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Champion product for fiber optic market
biz.yahoo.com
LightPath Technologies, Inc. Announces
Breakthrough In Ultra Low-Loss Collimator
ALBUQUERQUE, Feb. 23, 2000 /PRNewswire/ -- LightPath Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LPTHA - news) announced today that it has developed a third generation collimator which exhibits the lowest insertion loss ever reported for such devices. In their development laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, LightPath has perfected this technology over the past 6 months to address the high performance demands of the Isolator market segment of telecommunications components. Laboratory test results have yielded fiber to fiber insertion losses as low as 0.01dB per pair of collimators. As this new generation collimator is brought into production, it is expected to consistently yield insertion losses below 0.1dB per pair.
These results are 2 to 3 times better than other collimating products being produced today. The Company's test results have been independently verified by a large OEM of optical component products for the telecommunication market. By lowering the losses and improving the efficiency of telecommunication components, optical networks can be simplified through the reduction of amplifiers and signal regenerators. In addition, the reduced package size of these collimators will be crucial to the development of smaller and more robust telecommunications products.
Dr. Pierre Bernard, Vice President, Product and Technology Development comments, ``The key to this GEN3 collimator's breakthrough performance is in the collimating lens. We have successfully adapted the laser polishing process to reshape the lens surface to within a millionth of an inch of its ideal shape. The result is insertion loss as close to zero as has ever been achieved. As we transition this process into manufacturing, we expect positive impact on other parts of the process, such as the laser fusion step used to join the fiber and the lens. Using a tighter fiber to lens alignment tolerance, we aim to hold the pointing accuracy of this new product to better than 0.1 degree, a further step toward the perfect collimator.' |
