News in brief: APA Optics, Denselight, Modulight
The company’s Blaine operations will now focus mainly on gallium nitride technology and products, utilizing GaN manufacturing facilities in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
In addition to fiber-optic products, APA manufactures GaN-based ultraviolet detectors, instruments and consumer products.
Denselight’s SLEDs pass Telcordia test
DenseLight Semiconductors has announced that its superluminescent LEDs (SLEDs) have successfully passed Telcordia s GR-468-CORE, "Reliability Assurance Requirements for Optoelectronics Devices Used in Telecommunications Equipment".
The company has completed the vigorous 7-month testing process that includes mechanical, endurance, 5000-hour accelerated-ageing and ripple-ageing tests. The results validate the inherent reliability of DenseLight s SLEDs, which are then packaged in industrially established form-factors.
In particular, the GR-468-CORE represents a mark of quality in active optoelectronic devices, and is by far the most definitive standard in qualification and characterization of active devices. Its intention is to establish a hallmark of reliability under harsh operating conditions.
Modulight gains Israeli distributor
Modulight, a supplier of optoelectronic epiwafers, chips and packaged laser components based in Tampere, Finland, has appointed Migvan Technologies & Engineering as its representative in Israel.
“There is a clear match between our laser products and the concentration of the Israeli market on specific areas of optical communications,” Petteri Uusimaa, president of Modulight. “For example, our fiber pigtailed laser modules can be used in various ways in telecommunication systems. Our company has good expertise in customizing and tuning these lasers for various applications including space, military and medical applications.”
