CONFLUENT PHOTONICS
Confluent Photonics introduces nano-scale product line
Confluent Photonics introduces nano-scale adiabatic spot/pitch
converter product line
Andover, Massachusetts - Confluent Photonics, a provider of planar
waveguide optical components using 'ultra-thin' silicon-on-insulator,
introduced today a line of low-loss, mode size, mode shape, and array
pitch converter products. The silicon adiabatic taper waveguides are
designed for use in place of micro-lens and shaped fibre tip couplers
to improve the efficiency of transmission among micro-optical
components and optical fibres. They are provided as single units or as
monolithic arrays, with or without fibre pigtails. Arrayed mode
converters integrated with curved single mode waveguides provide
custom combinations of simultaneous mode and pitch shaping to optimise
device-to-fibre coupling. Confluent also offers applications support
for these products.
The Confluent Photonics Adiabatic Spot/Pitch Converter (ASPC)
manufacturing process employs breakthrough gray-scale lithographic
techniques to create silicon structures, fabricated on
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, shaped with 50 nm precision in all
three dimensions. Alignment and facet matching are 'built in' to
tolerances of better than one micron.
'Confluent's CMOS-compatible process offers users high quality coupled
with low cost in volume,' said David Hardwick, Confluent Photonics
CEO. 'We can also provide ancillary services including anti-reflective
coatings, optically aligned ferrules, and connectorised 'V' groove
fibre arrays.'
Confluent Photonics Adiabatic Spot/Pitch Converters offer an
integrated, monolithic solution to fibre coupling and enable
significant performance improvements in coupling efficiency for laser
sources, semi-conductor optical amplifiers and photo detector or photo
receiver applications. Confluent Photonics will be exhibiting their
optical devices at OFC in Anaheim, California, USA beginning March
19th.
About Confluent Photonics
Confluent Photonics is a privately held fibre optics and photonics
company headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts. The company designs,
develops and manufactures advanced silicon-on insulator components,
optical interconnects and component integration solutions.
Contact: Whitney T Weller, VP Business Development, Confluent
Photonics 20
New England Business Center, Andover, Massachusetts 01810, +1
978-738-8270,
wweller@confluentphotonics.com
Web site: http://www.confluentphotonics.com
Whitney T Weller, VP Business Development of Confluent Photonics,
+1-978-738-8270, wweller@confluentphotonics.com
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