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To: Les Miles who wrote (621)	2/23/2000 9:45:00 AM
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[LightPath Technologies, Inc. Announces Breakthrough In Ultra Low-Loss Collimator] ALBUQUERQUE, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- LightPath Technologies, Inc. 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." Donald E. Lawson, President and CEO stated, "Prior to LightPath's entrance into the collimator market with products enabled by its patented laser fusion and polishing processes, the vast majority of the world's fiber collimating needs were addressed with products built from a radial gradient index lens produced by the Japanese company NSG. In order to meet the increasing demands of the optical networking infrastructure, many OEMs challenged us to go beyond the current performance and cost benchmarks that had been established over the years with very little change. This product release, following a relatively short developmental cycle, reflects the capability and flexibility inherent in LightPath's optical and automated packaging technologies. We will continue to leverage these breakthrough technologies to meet the challenges of our customers." LightPath will have these new collimating products and other telecommunication component products available at booth 3277 of the upcoming Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) in Baltimore, MD from March 7 - 9, 2000.