Advanced Photonix, Inc. Announces a Design Win With Leading OEM Telecom Systems Provider Based in China, in 40 Gigabit High Speed Optical Receivers

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Photonix, Inc.® (NYSE Amex: API), announced today that its subsidiary Picometrix® will supply its industry leading 40 gigabit per second (Gb/s) high-speed optical receiver, the BR-40D, for long haul communications to a leading China OEM telecom systems provider that is a key supplier to the rapidly growing BRIC markets (Brazil, Russia, India and China).

This initial purchase commitment that will be delivered over the next 3 months exceeds $625,000 and has the potential to bear significant additional revenue during the coming fiscal year with follow on commitments to purchase the 40 Gb/s optical receivers.

"This design win with a major OEM based in China, who is a key supplier to the rapidly growing BRIC, markets confirms that our efforts at penetrating the China OEM market are beginning to bear fruit and could provide significant future revenue," said Robin (Rob) Risser, CFO of API and General Manager of Picometrix.  "This design win is only one of several design wins with tier 1 OEMs based in China that were are pursuing.  We anticipate additional design wins in both 100 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s products that will move to volume production status during the next fiscal year."

The BR-40D exemplifies the company's continued technology leadership in 40 Gb/s and emerging 100 Gb/s high-speed optical receivers.  Picometrix offers the industry's most complete line of 100 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s HSOR solutions for both client-side and line-side modulation formats, including NRZ, RZ, DPSK, DQPSK, ODB, DP-QPSK and DP-BPSK.

The new design win is for 40 Gb/s long haul communications in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems that utilizes 40Gb/s DPSK (differential phase-shift keying) modulation.  Our receiver utilizes the company's patented photodiode arrays to limit timing skew, which is important for DPSK modulation schemes that are used in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems. DPSK modulation takes advantage of phase modulation to extend transmission distances with high tolerance to crosstalk. This in turn lowers cost for systems implementation and decreases power consumption.

About Advanced Photonix, Inc.

Advanced Photonix, Inc.® (NYSE Amex: API) is a leading supplier with a broad offering of optoelectronic products to a global customer base. We provide optoelectronic solutions, high-speed optical receivers and terahertz instrumentation for telecom, homeland security, military, medical and industrial markets. With our patented technology and state-of-the-art manufacturing we offer industry leading performance, exceptional quality, and high value-added products to our OEM customer base. For more information visit us on the web at www.advancedphotonix.com.

The information contained herein includes forward looking statements that are based on assumptions that management believes to be reasonable but are subject to inherent uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, unforeseen technological obstacles which may prevent or slow the development and/or manufacture of new products; potential problems with the integration of the acquired company and its technology and possible inability to achieve expected synergies; obstacles to successfully combining product offerings and lack of customer acceptance of such offerings; limited (or slower than anticipated) customer acceptance of new products which have been and are being developed by the Company; and a decline in the general demand for optoelectronic products. API-G

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