Optoplex announced today its release of FlexComb™ product line for a bi-directional flat-top and high isolation optical comb filter, and its engagement with major customers for design-in activities.

In sharp contrast with traditional Fabry-Perot cavity based comb filter, a FlexComb™ device is capable of transmitting modulated DWDM signals with its passband width available anywhere down to a few picometer. Both the filter channel spacing (FSR) and the filter duty cycle (3-dB bandwidth to FSR ratio) can be specified by customers. As customers in optical transport equipment and instrumentation industries have described, this filter has superior performance traditional approaches and opens a whole new playing-field of applications from noise suppression for multi-wavelength laser or low-power signal filtering to multi-channel optical transmission.

Based on Optoplex’s patented technologies of micro-optics and phase modulation through thin-film coating, FlexComb™ is a pure passive device characterized by minimal temperature dependence, flat passband, high channel isolation, low PDL, and uniform insertion loss. FlexComb™ is a Telcordia GR-1221 qualified product.

With the introduction of FlexComb™, Optoplex once again demonstrates its technical innovation in designing new components to solve today’s most challenging optical communication, monitoring, and testing problems.

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

Optoplex Launches DWDM Filter, 10/26/2005 in Light Reading NEWS WIRE FEED