CONFLUENT PHOTONICS

Confluent Photonics introduces nano-scale product line

Confluent Photonics introduces nano-scale adiabatic spot/pitch converter product line

Andover, Massachusetts - Confluent Photonics, a provider of planar waveguide optical components using 'ultra-thin' silicon-on-insulator, introduced today a line of low-loss, mode size, mode shape, and array pitch converter products. The silicon adiabatic taper waveguides are designed for use in place of micro-lens and shaped fibre tip couplers to improve the efficiency of transmission among micro-optical components and optical fibres. They are provided as single units or as monolithic arrays, with or without fibre pigtails. Arrayed mode converters integrated with curved single mode waveguides provide custom combinations of simultaneous mode and pitch shaping to optimise device-to-fibre coupling. Confluent also offers applications support for these products.

The Confluent Photonics Adiabatic Spot/Pitch Converter (ASPC) manufacturing process employs breakthrough gray-scale lithographic techniques to create silicon structures, fabricated on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, shaped with 50 nm precision in all three dimensions. Alignment and facet matching are 'built in' to tolerances of better than one micron.

'Confluent's CMOS-compatible process offers users high quality coupled with low cost in volume,' said David Hardwick, Confluent Photonics CEO. 'We can also provide ancillary services including anti-reflective coatings, optically aligned ferrules, and connectorised 'V' groove fibre arrays.'

Confluent Photonics Adiabatic Spot/Pitch Converters offer an integrated, monolithic solution to fibre coupling and enable significant performance improvements in coupling efficiency for laser sources, semi-conductor optical amplifiers and photo detector or photo receiver applications. Confluent Photonics will be exhibiting their optical devices at OFC in Anaheim, California, USA beginning March 19th.

About Confluent Photonics

Confluent Photonics is a privately held fibre optics and photonics company headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts. The company designs, develops and manufactures advanced silicon-on insulator components, optical interconnects and component integration solutions.

Contact: Whitney T Weller, VP Business Development, Confluent Photonics 20
New England Business Center, Andover, Massachusetts 01810, +1 978-738-8270,
wweller@confluentphotonics.com

Web site: http://www.confluentphotonics.com

Whitney T Weller, VP Business Development of Confluent Photonics,
+1-978-738-8270, wweller@confluentphotonics.com






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