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"By introducing this new product line, Newport now offers a complete, state-of-the-art portfolio of instrumentation solutions to customers who manage and measure light," said Ron Hartmayer, Director of Marketing for Photonics at Newport Corporation.  "These products help round out a complete instrumentation line, as it relates to controlling, stabilizing, measuring and analyzing polarization in fiberoptic-based applications."

The 2590P Polarization Synthesizer and Analyzer represents the flagship product of the new portfolio, enabling the user to generate and maintain any desired state of polarization (SOP), regardless of the input SOP.  The generated SOP and corresponding Poincaré sphere are displayed on a monitor via PC interface. The instrument has multiple operation modes: deterministic SOP trace generation, polarization analysis and polarization scrambling, and is available for 1260-1360nm and 1500-1600nm wavelength ranges. 

The 2570P Series Polarization Multimeter operates in the 1260-1650nm wavelength range and provides four measurement modes — polarization dependent loss (PDL), insertion loss (IL), optical power (Po) and degree of polarization (DOP) - all in less than 0.2 seconds - and is accurate for both low and high PDL and SOP values. 

 Newport’s 2580P Series Multifunction Polarization Controller features an ultra low insertion loss of 0.005 dB over the 1260-1620 nm wavelength range. Four operational modes are available:  variable speed polarization scrambling at 10 kHz rates, manual polarization adjustment, polarization function generation delivering sine, saw square and random functions, and externally triggered scrambling up to 10 kHz rates. 

 The 2560P Series Polarization Stabilizer actively maintains a state of polarization (SOP) against a rapidly fluctuating input in the 11260-1650nm wavelength range, with a typical recovery time of 2 ms.  It provides a SOP rotation tracking speed of less than 16 pi/s, with accuracy and repeatability of less than 0.1 dB.

Newport’s 2550P Series Degree of Polarization (DOP) Meter is a low cost solution that delivers real-time, high accuracy measurements for both low and high DOP sources, while also simultaneously measuring optical power.  The instrument has a wide dynamic range and covers the S, C and L Bands. 

Using all-fiber technology to effectively randomize polarization states, Newport’s 2540P Series Polarization Scrambler features low residual phase and amplitude modulation, with no insertion loss or back reflection. This instrument finds uses in polarization dependent gain (PDG) suppression and polarization mode dispersion (PMD) monitoring. The instrument operates at 980, 1060, 1310, 1480, 1550 and 1600nm center wavelengths, selectable from the front panel or via computer interface. 

The 2530P Series is a high-performance polarization extinction ratio (PER) meter designed for operation in the 1260-1650nm wavelength range in both production and laboratory environments.  Key features include high polarization extinction ratio, high angular resolution, and an option for a detached optical head for measuring laser diodes and fiber optic components in close proximity to the device.

These new instruments are available with a FC/PC or FC/APC connector option.  The 2550P Series, 2560P, 2570P and 2580P Series are available immediately.  The 2530P, 2540P and 2590P Series will be available in Q4.

 

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Like previous models released by Peleton, the new product is a multi-channel laser, providing 40 wavelengths locked to the ITU-T grid from a single optical fiber. With the TM3100C-T, the ability to tune the entire grid by +/- 20 GHz has been added, making it possible to precisely set the laser to frequencies on either side of the ITU-T central frequencies. This flexibility is added without compromising the compactness, flat-spectrum and high output power of the equipment.

The TM3100C-T is useful in passive component testing since it allows components and modules to be scanned across their passbands, providing more information than can be obtained from a single point measurement.

“By adding tunability, the TM3100C-T has the additional flexibility and ease of use that many of our customers desire,” said Velko Tzolov, vice-president marketing and sales, Peleton. “We are seeing a growing demand for flexible multi-wavelength solutions driven by equipment and module vendors that are looking for scalable, easier to manage multi-wavelength test solutions for the design and manufacturing of their products.”

In addition to its new tunable offering, Peleton also offers the TM3050C, a 96-channel multi-wavelength source at 50 GHz channel spacing, and the TM3100C, a 40-channel, 100GHz version. Peleton also produces a series of optical channel controllers, which provide accurate attenuation and blocking of individual DWDM channels.

Peleton’s multi-wavelength laser equipment is designed for use in research and on the manufacturing line. A variety of remote interfaces are available for Peleton’s products, including serial, GPIB and Ethernet control.

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The new wavelength functionality of the OBR will help component and system level designers eliminate the time and expense of component characterization and short-haul optical link integrity management for a range of new applications that cover the 1310 nm wavelength band, including passive optical networks for FTTx and active networks for avionics applications. The new wavelength capability will also allow users to quickly and easily troubleshoot fiber-optic modules for DWDM applications by “seeing through” optical elements such as isolators and erbium doped fiber that are opaque in the 1550 nm wavelength region. Further enhancements enable Luna to extend the measurement range of the OBR to over 300 meters with sub-millimeter resolution providing additional functionality and flexibility to the system.

“The new 1310 nm OBR from Luna Technologies fills a very important measurement need for us,” said Scott Williams, Laboratory Manager of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications. “It has all of the functionality in terms of sensitivity, range, and resolution as the 1550 nm system, but it allows us to measure critical components in the wavelength band they were designed to operate. ”

“The OBR represents a shift in the way manufacturers produce and manage fiber-optic equipment,” says John Goehrke, Chief Executive Officer of Luna Technologies. “This addition to the OBR product line allows our customers to significantly reduce both their time and cost of test for a much broader range of modern optical networking components. ”

The OBR comes configured with an integrated internal tunable laser source, a computer and a monitor. It is available immediately with a six to eight week delivery time.

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This flexible, cost-effective solution is designed for all passive components, but due to its extended wavelength range of nearly 400 nm, it is particularly well suited for fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) and coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) applications. It is the only single-box solution that provides multi-channel insertion loss (IL), optical return loss (ORL) and polarization-dependent loss (PDL) measurements over all the bands.

EXFO’s new test system rapidly analyzes all critical parameters required to help customers validate their component designs and to improve their production efficiency and time-to-market. It is built with the future in mind; the modular nature of the hardware and the flexibility of the software render it easy to upgrade a test station.

For example, a four-channel test system for measuring couplers or splitters can be expanded up to 32 channels by simply adding the necessary plug-in mini-modules. The All-Band Component Analyzer is also surprisingly compact: an entire 32-channel system, including PDL tester, will fit into a single IQS-510P platform.

“With this industry first, we have established a new benchmark for optical component analysis,” said Étienne Gagnon, EXFO’s Vice-President of Optical-Layer Product Management. “Customers, who were using a costly, patchwork setup by stringing together multiple tunable lasers, broadband light sources, and various detection schemes, can now rely on EXFO’s all-in-one test system to meet all their passive component testing needs.”

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The LDP-3840B includes a GPIB/IEEE-488 interface for automated testing and characterization of laser diodes. For system integration, the LDP-3840B offers input and output triggers to control pulses and initiate corresponding measurements without a command program.

According to Thaddeus Orosz, Instrumentation Product Manager at ILX, “Pulse testing laser diodes is important in laser diode development and manufacturing, especially in pre-packaged form where adequate heat sinking is not practical.”

Orosz continued, “We’re very pleased to provide a solution to meet the market’s growing demand for a current source designed specifically for quantum cascade lasers. It’s exciting to know that we’re at the forefront of this technology.”

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“The TM3050C is a unique solution not only for verification and testing of optical subsystems, such as amplifiers, optical channel monitors, optical switches and ROADMs, but also for DWDM system verification, dynamic network simulations, multi-wavelength sensing applications and optically steered phased arrays,” said Velko Tzolov, vice-president, marketing and sales, Peleton. “We are seeing a growing demand for 50GHz capabilities driven by equipment vendors and service providers that are beginning to think about the future of their networks.”

Peleton’s TM3050C provides more than twice as many channels as the company’s introductory TM3100C laser announced earlier this year. All 96 channels exit from a single optical fiber and the laser is housed in an industry standard 2U rack-mountable package.

All of the wavelengths produced by the TM3050C are internally locked to the ITU-T grid at 50GHz channel spacing. In addition to the TM3050C, Peleton is also offering a
96-channel optical channel controller, the QTM050C, which provides accurate attenuation and blocking of individual channels.

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The 86038B is available with a range of wavelength options to provide specified measurements over the unprecedented 1260-1640nm wavelength range, based on the Agilent 81600B tunable laser option, and providing up to a 200nm range with a single laser. All parameters can be obtained with fast swept-wavelength measurements.

Key applications for the 86038B are: network equipment design and manufacturing, especially for 10 and 40 Gb/s transmission; optical fiber manufacturing, especially for modern all-band fibers like used in CWDM systems; design and manufacturing of dispersion compensation modules and fibers and DWDM filters for high speed transmission systems.