Featured Corporate Member: Finisar Corporation

Finisar Corporation, an industry leader in the development of core technologies for optical communication networks, recently announced several important technology demonstrations at OFC/NFOEC 2008 in San Diego. Finisar unveiled the first public demonstrations of three products: An 850 nm Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) for the emerging 16G Fiber Channel standard, a 200 km 10 Gbps DWDM XFP transceiver module based on Finisar's CML (Chirp Managed Directly Modulated Laser) technology, and a 40 km SFP+ transceiver module. Finisar demonstrated a complete optical link utilizing a 17 Gbps directly modulated VCSEL over multimode fiber. This 17 Gbps VCSEL line rate is required to support the 16G Fiber Channel payload, and will enable the next generation of Fiber Channel optical transceivers.

Prestigious OSA Corporate Members – like Finisar – innovate new technologies that advance the science of light. Recommend your organization or industry partner to become an OSA Corporate Member. Contact Anne Jones, OSA, for more information.