Nortel (Northern Telecom) Develops the World's First Tunable Wavelength-Locked High-Power Laser for Broadband Systems
PR Newswire - September 11, 1998 08:13
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-Laser Offers Significant Cost Advantages for Dense Wavelength Division
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OTTAWA, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ - Nortel (Northern Telecom) (NYSE: NT/TSE: NTL) has developed the world's first wavelength-locked, high-power laser that can be tuned to generate light at different wavelengths. This capability gives customers significant design flexibility and cost savings in Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) fiber-optic deployment.
The tunable laser uses Nortel's unique wavelength-locking mechanism, which enables the laser to adhere to the incredibly tight tolerances required by DWDM, over a wide range of operating conditions and throughout a laser's projected product life. Combined with the locking mechanism, the tunable laser allows operators to select and then accurately lock to any of the standard DWDM wavelengths, or channels, used in the industry.
DWDM, which allows multiple wavelengths to be carried on the same fiber, is a major technology for increasing network capacity to support the explosive growth of Internet, data, and multimedia traffic. The precise control afforded by Nortel's locking laser ensures that narrowly spaced wavelengths in DWDM systems do not drift out of their acceptable range and interfere with adjacent wavelengths.
The laser can be tuned over the traditional 1530-to-1560 nanometer bandwidth range and up to 1600 nanometers in the extended wavelength band. The extended waveband range supports up to 80 DWDM channels at 100-gigahertz channel spacing.
The development marks the first phase of a major Nortel thrust to provide industry-leading wavelength-selectable and wavelength-tunable lasers for high-capacity DWDM and optical transmission systems. The first opportunities to view this new technology will be at the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference being held in Orlando, Florida September 14-15 and at the European Conference on Optical Communication being held in Madrid, Spain September 22-24.
SOURCE Northern Telecom Limited
/CONTACT: Jacques Guerette, Nortel, (613) 765-7528,
jguerett(at)nortel.ca; Lesley Young, Nortel, 44 (0) 1803 662609,
lyoung(at)nortel.com; Frank McNally, Nortel, (703) 712-8374,
frank.mcnally(at)nortel.com; Or visit Nortel's web-site at www.nortel.com or
www.nortel.com/optoelectronic/ Nortel's press releases are also available
through CNO-Call by fax at 800-58-5804, ext.122158 or at www.prnewswire.com/
/Company News On-Call: prnewswire.com or fax at 800-758-5804,
ext. 122158/
/Web-site: nortel.com
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Nortel (Northern Telecom) Develops the World's First Tunable
Wavelength-Locked High-Power Laser for Broadband Systems
-Laser Offers Significant Cost Advantages for Dense Wavelength Division
Multiplexing-
OTTAWA, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ - Nortel (Northern Telecom) (NYSE: NT/TSE: NTL) has developed the world's first wavelength-locked, high-power laser that can be tuned to generate light at different wavelengths. This capability gives customers significant design flexibility and cost savings in Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) fiber-optic deployment.
The tunable laser uses Nortel's unique wavelength-locking mechanism, which enables the laser to adhere to the incredibly tight tolerances required by DWDM, over a wide range of operating conditions and throughout a laser's projected product life. Combined with the locking mechanism, the tunable laser allows operators to select and then accurately lock to any of the standard DWDM wavelengths, or channels, used in the industry.
DWDM, which allows multiple wavelengths to be carried on the same fiber, is a major technology for increasing network capacity to support the explosive growth of Internet, data, and multimedia traffic. The precise control afforded by Nortel's locking laser ensures that narrowly spaced wavelengths in DWDM systems do not drift out of their acceptable range and interfere with adjacent wavelengths.
The laser can be tuned over the traditional 1530-to-1560 nanometer bandwidth range and up to 1600 nanometers in the extended wavelength band. The extended waveband range supports up to 80 DWDM channels at 100-gigahertz channel spacing.
The development marks the first phase of a major Nortel thrust to provide industry-leading wavelength-selectable and wavelength-tunable lasers for high-capacity DWDM and optical transmission systems. The first opportunities to view this new technology will be at the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference being held in Orlando, Florida September 14-15 and at the European Conference on Optical Communication being held in Madrid, Spain September 22-24.
SOURCE Northern Telecom Limited
/CONTACT: Jacques Guerette, Nortel, (613) 765-7258,
jguerett(at)nortel.ca; Lesley Young, Nortel, 44 (0) 1803 662609,
lyoung(at)nortel.com; Frank McNally, Nortel, (703) 712-8374,
frank.mcnally(at)nortel.com; Or visit Nortel's web-site at www.nortel.com or
www.nortel.com/optoelectronic/ Nortel's press releases are also available
through CNO-Call by fax at 800-58-5804, ext.122158 or at www.prnewswire.com/
/Company News On-Call: prnewswire.com or fax at 800-758-5804,
ext. 122158/
/Web-site: nortel.com
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