Optoplex Corporation
The company designs, develops, manufactures, and markets innovative fiber-optic products to communications networks, and provides customized solutions to instrument, defense, spectroscopy and sensing industries. By combining its proprietary optical design and packaging technology with its state-of-the-art optical coating expertise and facility.
- (510) 490 9930
- (510) 490 9330
- info@optoplex.com
- sales@optoplex.com
- 48500 Kato Road
Fremont, CA 94538
United States of America
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OSA - Handheld OSA
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Optoplex’s handheld optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) is the first “smart” – inspired by Android smart-device – handheld OSA in the industry. The OSA is equipped with an Android tablet for data processing, analysis, display and communications.
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Optical Channel Monitor
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Optoplex Optical channel monitor (OCM) uses proprietary thin-film interference filter technology combined with a micro-actuator and high-speed electronics. Optical channel monitor is used to measure critical information data on optical transmission signals in DWDM networks for monitoring signal dynamics, determining system functionality, identifying performance change, and providing feedback for controling network elements so as to optimize operational performance. In particular, Optoplex Optical channel monitor can automatically scan the C-, L- or C+L-band wavelength range and precisely measure channel wavelength, power, and optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR). See the following schematic diagram for OCM working principle.
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Balanced Photo-Receivers
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Coherent detection has been found increasing applications in fiber sensing as well as in conventional RF and optical communications. In the past several years, coherent technology has been advanced dramatically in high-speed optical communications. With this, key parts and components (such as narrow linewidth lasers, optical hybrid, balanced photo-receivers and DSP, etc.) are commercially available and cost-effective for many applications beyond telecommunications.
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Optical Performance Monitor
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Optoplex Optical performance monitor (OPM) uses proprietary thin-film interference filter technology combined with a micro-actuator and high-speed electronics. Optical performance monitor is used to measure critical information data on optical transmission signals in DWDM networks for monitoring signal dynamics, determining system functionality, identifying performance change, and providing feedback for controlling network elements so as to optimize operational performance. In particular, Optoplex Optical performance monitor can automatically scan the C-, L- or C+L-band wavelength range and precisely measure channel wavelength and power. See the following schematic diagram for OPM working principle.
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90-Degree Optical Hybrid
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Six-port hybrid devices have been used for microwave and millimeter-wave detection systems since the mid-1990s and are a key component for coherent receivers. In principle, the six-port device consists of linear dividers and combiners interconnected in such a way that four different vectorial additions of a reference signal (LO) and the signal to be detected are obtained. The levels of the four output signals are detected by balanced receivers. By applying suitable baseband signal processing algorithms, the amplitude and phase of the unknown signal can be determined.
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40Gb/s DQPSK Receiver
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The integrated DQPSK receiver incorporates an optical phase demodulator (delay-line interferometer or DLI) with 2 pairs of balanced photo-diodes and 2 linear TIAs into a single butterfly package. Compared with the currently available discrete solution in which a separate DLI and a separate receiver are used, the integrated DQPSK receiver eliminates labor intensive fiber routing and coupling (between the DLI and the balanced receiver) as well as the skew control. Moreover, the integrated DQPSK receiver offers a smaller footprint suitable for today’s demanding high speed transponder applications.
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2x8 QPSK Mixer
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To be used for optical coherent detection such as DP-QPSK receivers, Optoplex’s ten-port 2x8 Coherent Mixer (aka QPSK mixer) combines the incoming signal with a local oscillator to generate eight light states in the complex-field space. The eight light output signals can then be coupled into four pairs of balanced detectors. The block diagram below shows the application of a 2x8 coherent mixer in a DP-QPSK receiver. Since the mixing process is data rate independent, the devices can be used for any data rate in applications such as 40Gb/s or 100Gb/s transmission systems.
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100Gb/s Coherent Receiver
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The integrated 100-Gb/s DP-QPSK receiver incorporates two 90° optical hybrids with four pairs of balanced photodetector (PD) and four linear TIAs into a single butterfly package. Unlike other technologies in which the polarization beam splitter (PBS) and/or the power splitter (BS) are not included, Optoplex’s receiver includes both of them with the optical hybrids, PDs and the TIAs to offer a fully integrated solution which will benefit users in terms of completely removing fiber routing and the skew management. The integrated receivers work at the symbol rate up to 32GBaud/s.
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DQPSK Demodulator
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Differential Quaternary Phase-Shift Keying (DQPSK) is the four-level version of DPSK. DQPSK transmits two bits for every symbol (bit combinations being 00, 01, 11 and 10) and has an additional advantage over conventional binary DPSK. DQPSK has a narrower optical spectrum, which tolerates more dispersion (both chromatic and polarization-mode), allows for stronger optical filtering, and enables closer channel spacing. As a result, DQPSK is the only modulation format which allows processing of 40Gb/s data-rate in a 50-GHz channel spacing system.
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Fabry-Perot Based Scanning Filter
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This new type Fabry-Perot Based Scanning Filter (FPSF) is based on Optoplex proprietary fiber optical Fabry-Perot Etalon technology. It offers F-P based scanning filter with central wavelength at 1060nm, 1310nm, 1550nm or other customized wavelength. It can be tuned manually or automatically by scanning over a wide spectral range from 10nm to 100nm with bandwidth from 0.05nm to 1.0nm. FPSF features less than 3dB insertion loss and as high as 1kHz scanning frequency. Its unique high reliability and low insertion loss design presents the most cost-effective solution for OEM application from telecommunication to fiber sensing interrogation.
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Switchable Optical Interleaver
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In a switchable interleaver, there are two operation modes: *Mode A: All pass *Mode B: InterleaverIn Mode A, the system operates at any channel spacing, in which all channels pass through the device and output from one of the two output ports as if there is no extra device inserted. When the system is switched to Mode B, the device operates as a normal optical interleaver, such 50-100GHz interleaver. The working principle is schematically shown below. In Mode B, the device could be a standard symmetric interleaver, or an asymmetric interleaver. Channel spacings are not limitted to 50-100GHz. They can be any frequency pair: between N-GHz and 2N-GHz.
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MTF Measuring Systems For Industrial Applications
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The MTF (modulation transfer function) is a recognized quality criterion for the imaging quality of optics. OEG GmbH develops and manufactures computer-controlled, fully automatic measuring systems for MTF and other parameters for quality assurance in optics production, incoming goods inspection, research and teaching
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OSA - OEM Modules
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Optoplex’s near-infrared optical spectrum analyzer module (NIR OSA) is a high performance optical spectral engine for Process Analytical Technology (PAT) and Fiber Optic Test Equipment (FOTE) applications. Based on proprietary technologies, Optoplex’s OSA module offers much higher spectral resolution capability than those available in the market, which is demanding in today’s increasing spectroscopy applications. Other features include: compact, light-weight, low power consumption and wide wavelength coverage. Optoplex’s compact OSA engines are suitable for a variety of handheld, portable, bench-top and inline OSA/spectrometer applications.
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PD-200 High-Speed High-Power Photodetector
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These high speed photodiode, PD-200, is hermetically sealed, high reliability, low harmonic distortion photodiode modules designed for high optical power applications with minimum bandwidths of 20 GHz. The device is well suited for receiver applications with optical pre-amplification, and is available either with or without an internal 50Ω termination. The photodiode module is available in either a V-connector package or a miniature surface mount package with CPW (coplanar waveguide) RF output.
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3-Port ROADM / TOADM
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Optoplex's Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) module, also known as Tunable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (TOADM), is based on a proprietary micro-optics and micro-actuator design, athermal packaging technology, and state-of-the-art thin-film coating. When receiving a stream of optical signals of a plurality of wavelengths from the Input-Port (IN), this 3-port ROADM device directs a selected channel to the Drop-Port (ADD/DROP) and the remaining channels to the Express-Port (EXP), as depicted in the figure below. This tunable feature can also be used for adding a channel, when the device is used in reverse. Cascading two ROADM modules, simultaneous add and drop functions can be achieved. Each single ROADM device is optimized to cover either C- or L-band wavelengths. The standard 100- or 200-GHz channel spacing ROADM products allow for single-channel drop. Customized banded-channel drop ROADMs are available upon request.
