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GigOptix' 40G Polymer Modulator, the LX8400, Now in Pre-Production
Press Release
Source: GigOptix Inc.
On 1:11 pm EDT, Tuesday October 13, 2009
BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GigOptix Inc. (OTCBB: GGOX - News) today announced that its LX8400, a GPPO connectorized 40G EO polymer Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM), has been shipped in pre-production quantities to a number of defense, research and academic customers.
GigOptix is following an outsourced manufacturing model, and has developed the EO polymer modulator for production in cooperation with a volume contract manufacturing partner. GigOptix manufactures the MZM die in its fab in Washington and the CM assembles and packages them at its facility. In September, GigOptix shipped product from its contract manufacturer’s location to customers signaling an important achievement towards the mass commercialization of EO polymer modulators.
“We have made a lot of progress in the past year. We have brought EO polymer modulators from an internally built research and development stage to a pre-production stage at a contract manufacturer with pre-production units being shipped to select customers,” said Dr. Raluca Dinu, Vice President and General Manager of GigOptix-Bothell business unit. “We are now resolving the final steps that will enable us to go to full volume production release.”
Dr. Dinu added that GigOptix has carried out extensive reliability analysis and testing of its EO Polymer material. "This is a disruptive technology and customers need to know that it can reliably operate for the long term. Prior to the pre-production release our analysis confirmed that this current generation of material is stable and operates well at 85C making it suitable for a number of our customers’ applications.” However, for telecom applications that require a 25-year lifespan, GigOptix has an optimized version of its EO material to address the long term reliability performance needs. This material is currently undergoing an extensive testing program. GigOptix plans to migrate all its EO products to this material by end of Q4'09 and be in production parts in 2010.
Another test of the EO polymers stability over temperature was addressed in a joint project targeting technologies for supercomputing. To reach the computational speeds demanded by the enormous amounts of data to be analyzed and to keep the power consumption to a manageable level these next generation systems require super cooling down to a few Kelvin. High speed optical modulators will enable the ultra fast switching needed and so must be proven to work under super cooling. The operation and key parameters of GigOptix packaged pre-production modulators were tested at the extreme temperature of 30K or -243deg Celsius. The devices maintained performance, confirming that the technology is suitable for applications related to energy saving in large data centers as well as other challenging environments such as aerospace and satellite communications.
Pre-production parts are available immediately. Please contact sales@gigoptix.com for datasheets, samples and pricing.
About GigOptix Inc.
GigOptix is a leading fabless manufacturer of electronic engines for the optically connected digital world. The Company offers a broad portfolio of high speed electronic devices including polymer electro-optic modulators, modulator drivers, laser drivers and TIAs for telecom, datacom, Infiniband and consumer optical systems, covering serial and parallel communication technologies from 1G to 120G. For more information, please visit www.GigOptix.com.
Forward Looking Statements
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Assuming Photon-X is well aware of the characteristics of LWLG's electro-optic polymer, it is odd and troubling that Renfeng Gao made the following statement:
"GigOptix electro-optic polymer technology provides a very exciting opportunity for us to develop new innovative high speed and wide band products in the RF photonics space," said Renfeng Gao, Director of Photon-X, LLC. "The LX8900's bandwidth and performance characteristics are very impressive and we believe will open up a whole new realm of RF photonic applications."
Hopefully, the GGOX partnership is just a placeholder for Photon-X until LWLG gets it act together. Maybe, GGOX will establish the modulator market with what they have and eventually incorporate LWLG's electro-optic polymer into their products (win/win relationship instead of working against each other). I could also foresee GGOX being acquired by a much larger entity who would then partner with LWLG concerning the modulator market.
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