ADC Develops First Product Platform from Advanced Photonics Integration Center.Business Editors & Technology Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2001 Compact Optical Modules Integrate Multiple Key Components into Compact Footprint; Customer Evaluation Underway ADC (1) See A/D converter. (2) (Apple Display Connector) A peripheral connector from Apple that combines digital video display, USB and power in one cable. (Nasdaq:ADCT ADCT Adaptive Discrete Cosine Transform ; www.adc.com), a leading global supplier of fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber , network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks, today announced the development of the first product platform to come out of its Advanced Photonics Integration Center (APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) A circuit that handles the priority of interrupts in a computer. Designed to support symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), the APIC handles more interrupts and is more flexible than the programmable interrupt controller ). The platform consists of a family of compact optical modules, which integrate the functionality of several discrete optical components into a single, compact design. The modules will be showcased at Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC OFC Office OFC Officer OFC Of Course OFC Oxygen Free Copper OFC Oceania Football Confederation (soccer) OFC Optical Fiber Cable OFC Optical Fiber Communications OFC Optical Fiber Conference ) 2001, in Anaheim, California “Anaheim” redirects here. For Annaheim, see Annaheim, Saskatchewan. Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California, located 28 miles southeast of Los Angeles. , March 19-21, 2001, in ADC's booth, No. 2600. The APIC, launched in September 2000, develops customized, integrated and fully-packaged photonics solutions for ADC's customers, including original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of optical networking systems. "With the APIC, we strive to meet the growing, time-critical needs of our customers," said Martin Nyman, director of ADC's APIC. "Our emerging product portfolio is designed to meet the ever-increasing time-to-market challenges of our customers with high performance, cost-effective optical modules and subsystems." This month, the first samples of the compact optical modules have been made available for customer evaluation, with production and qualification expected to take place in the second half of 2001. ADC's compact optical modules integrate the functionality of several discrete components into a single, compact design. The high-performance optical devices combine functions such as an optical monitor, a polarization insensitive single-stage isolator, and a WDM (1) (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) A technology that uses multiple lasers and transmits several wavelengths of light (lambdas) simultaneously over a single optical fiber. coupler Refers to a myriad of different types of sockets for plugging in electric or electronic cables or devices. See network coupler. into a single compact package. By integrating these functions and eliminating unnecessary splicing splicing /splic·ing/ (spli´sing) 1. the attachment of individual DNA molecules to each other, as in the production of chimeric genes. 2. RNA s. and coupling to fiber, the resulting module reduces overall insertion loss while maintaining full optical performance. The new modules' performance characteristics make them highly suitable for optical network amplifier applications. Modules for both 980 and 1480 nm pump bands of erbium erbium (ûr`bēəm) [from Ytterby, a town in Sweden], metallic chemical element; symbol Er; at. no. 68; at. wt. 167.26; m.p. 1,529°C;; b.p. 2,863°C;; sp. gr. 9.05 at 25°C;; valence +3. doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) are under development. The APIC, based in Minneapolis, draws on the company's human and technological resources in the broad area of fiber optics, especially within the specialized field of optical components, or photonics. APIC's product portfolio ultimately will include, in addition to compact optical modules, such integrated solutions as: optical add/drop multiplexers modules, optical switch modules and a variety of sub-system modules. With these products, ADC is positioned to provide customers with consistent, reliable optical component solutions. About ADC Photonics ADC is a leading global supplier of optical components such as couplers, isolators, collimators, WDMs and dense WDMs. ADC recently expanded into active components, such as 980nm pump lasers and tunable lasers, and is incorporating other key technologies, such as Phase masks and fiber Bragg gratings, as well as optical MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. capabilities, into new passive and active components and modules. ADC has research and development/production facilities for passive and active optical components in Minnesota, New Jersey, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, as well as other ADC manufacturing facilities throughout the world. About ADC ADC is The Broadband Company(TM). ADC's fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services make broadband communications a reality worldwide by enabling communications service providers to deliver high-speed Internet, data, video and voice services to consumers and businesses. ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT) has annual sales of more than $3.4 billion and employs approximately 21,000 people worldwide. ADC's stock is included in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Nasdaq-100 Index. Learn more about ADC Telecommunications, Inc. at www.adc.com. |
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