Breakthrough in Laser Technology Leads to Faster, Cheaper Bandwidth; Technology Pioneers Make Laser Light That Matters.Business Editors, Technology Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2000 Novalux today unveiled a breakthrough in laser technology that promises to replace the underlying way that voice, data, video and Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. are carried across the world. The technology, called NECSEL (Novalux Extended Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers), makes it possible to greatly expand the information transmission capacity of a fiber network (beyond current optical pump technology) at a significantly lower cost. The new laser technology platform sets previously unheard of Not heard of; of which there are no tidings. Unknown to fame; obscure. - Glanvill. See also: Unheard Unheard price/performance expectations and will have a major impact not only 4on communications, but also displays, lighting and medical markets. Novalux CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Malcolm Thompson Actor Malcolm Thompson performed as an Australian-based television actor, best known for his role in 1970s soap opera The Restless Years. Thompson was born in Yorkshire, England in 1949 and began acting in England in weekly-repertory and other theatre sees the implications of NECSEL's advancement as far reaching. "There is an exploding demand for greater online communications capacity. Optical fiber transmission lines are already being installed worldwide to meet this demand," said Thompson. "The quantum leap quantum leap n. An abrupt change or step, especially in method, information, or knowledge: "War was going to take a quantum leap; it would never be the same" Garry Wills. in price/performance that NECSEL brings promises to enable a paradigm change in the telecommunications marketplace." Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing See WDM. (DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing ) is the first important example. DWDM multiplies the information-carrying capacity of an optical fiber by sending multiple information data channels down the fiber using multiple carrier transmitters with differing wavelengths. The larger the number of channels used, the greater is the demand for pump power. Today DWDM is powered by edge-emitting diode laser-based pump technology which is unable to reliably provide more than 250mW in single mode fiber. NECSELs, on the other hand, produce a much higher power Higher power is a term used in a 12-step program, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, to describe "a power greater than yourself." Although many participants equate their higher power with God, a belief in God or in formal religion is not mandatory; the higher power is intended as a in a perfectly circular beam emitted from the surface of the chip. This also has the advantage of making it possible to "mass test" chips prior to costly packaging. In the role of a lower power transmitter layer, NECSELs further reduce DWDM network cost by replacing the backup transmitter for each wavelength channel by a single digitally tuned transmitter. For Novalux founder Aram Mooradian, the debut of this technology marks the coming of age for semiconductor laser technology. "When the laser was invented, it was a solution in search of a problem. Internet bandwidth has proven it was the problem waiting to be solved," Mooradian said. About Novalux Novalux (http://www.novalux.com) was founded in 1998 and is located in Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley. The company has pioneered a breakthrough in ultra-high power for photonic systems. Called NECSEL (Novlaux Extended Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers), this new technology enables elegant scalable active laser platforms and solutions for achieving greater information bandwidth across long haul access and metro communications systems. |
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