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VI Systems Demonstrates Progress on VCSEL technology at ECOC 2010
The firm expects its development efforts on ultrahigh-speed optical and electrical components are expected to lead to new standards in optical communication systems in the next two years.
VI Systems, a manufacturer of ultra-high speed optical components for data communications presented an update of its 25 Gbit/s and 40 Gbit/s Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) technology and packaging results during the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) conference in Italy.
Chief Technology Officer of VI Systems, James Lott, presented the performance characteristics of state-of-the-art high-speed VCSELs operating with extreme temperature stability throughout the linear output power versus current region. The firm demonstrated that high-speed VCSELs are ready for product insertion in short-range optical communication systems.
VI Systems developed the VCSEL products at a wavelength of 850 nm along with a range of extremely fast integrated circuits based on the SiGe BiCMOS (silicon-germanium bipolar junction transistors in complementary metal-oxide- semiconductor) technology.
The company uses a patent pending micro- assembly platform for the integration of the opto- electrical components and for alignment to a standard high performance multi-mode glass-based fiber. The low cost design enables the massive deployment of such optical interconnects for high bandwidth data communication.
The targeted applications include short-reach and very short-reach optical receivers, transmitters, and transceiver modules used in optical communication networks as well chip-to-chip optical interconnects used in the high performance computing industry.
Future serial standards for data rates of higher than 14 Gbit/s are currently developed or on the roadmap within the Common Electrical Standard (CEI-25/28 Gbit/s), Fibre Channel 16 Gbit/s and 32
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Gbit/s, and IEEE Ethernet 40/100 Gbit/s, Infiniband EDR (26 Gbit/s per lane), Intel Light Peak up to 100 Gbit/s as well as in a number of custom specific applications.
VI Systems is a fabless developer and manufacturing company of optoelectronic components for communication, industrial, and consumer applications based in Berlin, Germany. Originally spun-out of the Technical University of Berlin and the A. F. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, VI-Systems offers laser and photodetector semiconductor chips and modules for applications in optical data communications and related consumer markets.
Military Terrestrial Satcom Market to Grow Slightly
Strategy Analytics latest report, “Terrestrial Military Satcom Platforms - Advanced Electronics Component Forecast”, predicts that the Radio Electronics Market will be $85 Million in 2010.
Despite long production cycles and relatively small numbers of new satellites, the increasing sophistication of the terrestrial portion of Satcom networks will make way for slight growth in the radio semiconductor market.
The recently published Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) data model, “Terrestrial Military Satcom Platforms - Advanced Electronics Component Forecast,” projects a strong initial increase to peak in 2014, followed by a declining trend for the terrestrial portion of the military Satcom market through 2020.
The report projects the total terrestrial portion of the Satcom market will grow from an estimated $423 million in 2008 to as much as of $684 million in 2013, before falling off to slightly more than $500 million in 2020. This Strategy Analytics analysis also segments the communications systems by radio electronics and semiconductors, predicting that this sector of the market will be $85 million by 2020.
“The ability of forces on the ground to use satellite resources will continue to play a significant role in network-centric battle strategies. As terrestrial platforms become more sophisticated in response
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