Optoplex announced 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.

With the introduction of 25-GHz spectrometer, 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.