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GigOptix mass producing driver for 40 G and 100 G optical systems
The firm's single channel GX6255 driver has been ordered by a number of tier one Asian telecom customers and is now being manufactured in volume
GigOptix, a fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components that enable high speed information streaming is introducing its GX6255.
This is a surface mounted 8 Vpp Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM) single ended driver designed for use in both the 40 G RZ-DQPSK and the 100G DP-QPSK metro and long haul transponders. The firm is now ramping to mass production with orders from Asian telecom customers.
GX6255 32Gb/s MZM driver
GigOptix's GX6255 is a high performance, low power, compact, surface mounted technology MZM driver capable of driving 8 Vpp at up to 32 Gb/s. The GX6255 typically dissipates about 1.6 W of with 7.5 Vpp output. The device is designed to be fully compliant with industry standard single drive 40 G RZ-DQPSK and 100 G DP-QPSK modulators and GigOptix says that it meets all the telecom qualification spec demands.
Ovum has stated in a recent market report that it expects the 100 G market to grow by 107 % Compound Annual Growth Rate and the 40 G market to grow by more than 40 % CAGR.
"We are very excited about the ramp up of our latest 40 G and 100 G driver, the GX6255, to mass production,” says Raluca Dinu, General Manager and Vice President of the Optics Product Line at GigOptix.
“With the advent of cloud computing, the migration of data services to the web, coupled with the mass adoption of smartphones and tablets, we are seeing increasing consumer driven demand for more bandwidth across the network. GigOptix continues to benefit from our focused strategy of developing products for the 40 G and 100 G communications markets. The new driver joins our large driver portfolio, which in combination with our comprehensive TFPSTM modulator offering and the variety of the dual channel transimpedance amplifiers, enable GigOptix to offer our customers the most comprehensive and richest selection of 40 G and 100 G component solutions in the market, " concludes Dinu.
