Gore puts VCSEL business up for sale
"We are refocusing Gore s electronic components business on high-performance electrical interconnects and materials, our core technology," stated Russell Shaller, general manager of Gore Photonics. "As we seek interested buyers for the fiber-optic business, we will continue to fully support the needs of our customers and meet our commitments to them."
Despite the current industry downturn, Gore Photonics says that is experiencing "robust sales growth" for its family of nLIGHTEN parallel optic products. Gore claims to be one of only two parallel optic component manufacturers to have successfully launched 12 x 1.25 Gbit/s modules, which are currently being shipped for use in production systems.
The company is one of three voting participants in the industry standard SNAP-12 multi-source agreement (MSA) for 12 x 2.7 Gbit/s modules, and it has licensed the only other production qualified parallel optic module format based on a four-wide design originating from Alvesta. In addition, the company has licensed and initiated sales of an OC-192 transponder based on the 12 x 1.25 Gbit/s optical module.
Gore acquired its 850 nm VCSEL technology through the acquisition of Optical Concepts, a spin-off from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
