LightPath Technologies Introduces New Fiber Optic Switch at NFOEC
Monday August 28, 8:33 am Eastern Time
Press Release
SOURCE: LightPath Technologies, Inc.
LightPath Technologies Introduces New Fiber Optic Switch at NFOEC
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- LightPath Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LPTH - news), manufacturer of families of high performance fiber-optic collimator and isolator products, introduced the LP1600 opto-mechanical switch at the National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference in Denver, Colorado today. The LP1600 is a 1xN optical switch, which is designed to route one incoming fiber into one-of-many output fibers. The current design allows customers to select custom configurations of 4 to 24 output channels, with future designs allowing up to 100 output channels. The Company is demonstrating the 1x8 switch at NFOEC.
The LP1600 optical switch employs a patented retro-reflecting mirror design in conjunction with LightPath's ultra low-loss single mode fiber collimator, the GEN3. This combination has yielded a typical switching speed of 7.5 milliseconds between adjacent channels which is superior to any competitive product currently advertise in the market today. The LP1600 product provides a typical insertion loss level of 0.5 dB. Applications for this type of switch include component test and measurement systems, as well as monitoring, protection and restoration of fiber optic communication networks. Flexible configurations of the LP1600 including custom enclosures, interface and number of channels allow LightPath to tailor its 1xN switch to the specific needs of the telecommunications industry, industrial laboratory testing, and biomedical instrumentation.
Donald E. Lawson, CEO of LightPath, commented, ``Our first optical switch product release is a continuation of our strategic plan to bring additional component products into the telecom sector. With it we are also leveraging our automated platforms to reduce component cost by eliminating tedious and expensive alignment. The physical size reduction that we have achieved with this switch is another attractive attribute to system level products such as metro add/drop multiplexers.''
The Company will manufacture the switch at its Albuquerque location using its patented automated fiber fusion and active alignment processes. The switch products will be field tested over the next six months and a pilot manufacturing line is scheduled to commence operation by March 2001.
LightPath manufacturers its proprietary collimator assemblies, GRADIUM® glass products and other optical telecommunications products at its headquarters in Albuquerque. The Company's subsidiary, Horizon Photonics, manufacturers isolator products utilizing its proprietary automation technology in Walnut, California. LightPath also has an office in Warren, New Jersey for the purpose of developing various optical switch products. The Company has 22 patents, plus 4 more pending, associated with its optical technologies. In addition, various foreign countries have issued a total of 8 patents with 9 patents pending. The Company also announced earlier this month that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Geltech, Inc., a leading manufacturer of precision molded aspherical optics and all-glass diffraction gratings. LightPath common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the stock symbol LPTH.
This news release includes statements that may constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, factors detailed by LightPath Technologies, Inc. in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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