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The ever-shrinking tunable
You might expect one of the usual suspects — JDSU or Bookham — to be first out the gate with a tunable laser in the XFP form factor, but Emcore seems to have pipped them at the post.
Or has it? Emcore’s announcement this morning says the company is “planning to release a full-band tunable XFP product line”, but doesn’t give a time-frame (see Emcore unveils industry’s first tunable XFP optical transceiver).
That announcement could be roughly equivalent to the one JDSU made last year, when it unveiled its tunable transmitter chip (see JDSU shrinks tunable transmitter). JDSU told fibresystems.org it was working on a tunable XFP module that would be ready around the end of 2009. Although JDSU has been highly secretive about the press conference it’s calling for tomorrow morning, the timing would be about right for that to be a tunable XFP.
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