Oclaro Delivers 100Gb/s Transmission Speeds with its New LiNbO3 'PM100' Modulators

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Oclaro, Inc. (Nasdaq: OCLR), a tier-one provider of innovative optical communications and laser solutions, today announced its support for the upcoming 100Gb/s optical network applications with its new LiNbO3 "PM100" modulators.  With the addition of these new modulators, Oclaro now holds the industry's most extensive portfolio of components for 100G across both the transmission and line applications, and its customers can benefit from faster time to market and a unique ability to quickly, easily and cost-effectively develop advanced transmission products.

"This announcement demonstrates Oclaro's continued commitment to support the most advanced telecom applications and also highlights the success behind our recent investments in ClariPhy and Mintera," said Adam Price, Executive Vice President and Division Manager at Oclaro.  "As a result of these strategic moves, Oclaro is strongly positioned as a leader today in high-speed products at 40G with both DPSK and DQPSK transponders, and also most of the technology required to provide coherent products at both 40 and 100G."

About the PM100 Modulator

The new PM100 modulators extend Oclaro's 100G component offering; providing customers with a comprehensive portfolio of components for developing 100G applications.  The PM100 modulator supports the generally accepted Dual Polarization-QPSK modulation scheme; each of four parallel MZI's running at speeds of up to 32 Gbaud. The very advanced, spectrally efficient QPSK modulation format, combined with the polarization multiplexing scheme, guarantees compatibility with 50 GHz optical channel spacing and more than doubles the capacities of conventional 40G transmission.

The PM100 modulators are sampling today to customers and general availability is expected in early 2011.

Investing in the Future

To support the fast growing market of 100G transmission, Oclaro has invested strongly into very advanced chip and packaging technologies that have evolved from Oclaro's extremely reliable and high-performing MZI modulators.  This meticulous chip design features low insertion loss (with very small polarization depend loss) as well as an extended bandwidth and a quasi-linear electro-optic roll-off.  In addition, the form factor of the PM100 is fully compliant to the widely accepted OIF 100G Tx Implementation Agreement.

About Oclaro

Oclaro, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR) is a tier-one provider of optical communications and laser components, modules and subsystems for a broad range of diverse markets, including telecommunications, industrial, scientific, consumer electronics, and medical. Oclaro is a global leader, dedicated to photonics innovation with cutting-edge chip fabrication facilities in the U.K., Switzerland and Italy, and in-house and contract manufacturing sites in the U.S., Thailand and China. To support its diverse and global customer base, Oclaro maintains research and development, sales and service organizations in each of the major regions around the world. For more information visit http://www.oclaro.com.

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