Optoplex Corporation today announced that it has successfully developed a hand-held high resolution spectrometer with a 200 pm wavelength resolution capability, establishing it as a market leader in providing the next generation of the interrogating instruments for agile fiber-optic communication networks as well as the industrial process monitoring tools.

Based on micro-optics and thin-film filter technologies, Optoplex's spectrometer offers significant advantages over traditional spectrometers. Leveraging its in-house optical coating and coupled with an InGaAs high sensitivity single detector, Optoplex’s spectrometers can scan a wide wavelength range of custom specification in less than 1 second, measure the channel power and wavelength within a >50 dB dynamic range, and reports the data through a serial RS-232 or DPRAM interface, thus answering the need for portable, plug-and-play instruments. The data resolution can be as high as 2 GHz.

To meet today’s optical communication network management and optical test and measurement demands, now Optoplex offers the industry’s most comprehensive range of optical monitoring products, from ultra-dense DWDM, to CWDM, to wide-band monitoring for a variety of industrial applications. The flexibility of Optoplex’s product family enables the users to optimize the performance of fiber-optic network systems and interrogators, while significantly reducing their size, power consumption and cost.

For more information, please write to info@optoplex.com or call (510) 490-9930.