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40 Gb/s Transmission
 | Mintera - Deployed, funded 40
Gb/s transport (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| Stratalight - One third of a
rack for 8, 40 Gb/s channels. (Campbell, CA) |
| CIP - Semiconductor OAs,
Electro-absorption modulators, 40 Gb/s parts |
| Kodeos - 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s
Transponders (South Plainfield, NJ) |
Raman
| IPG Photonics
- Very high power (> 1kW - a bit less for communications purposes) fiber
lasers and amplifiers |
| Xtera - Raman transmission |
| MPB Communications -
Lasers, optical amplifiers, undersea equipment, etc., etc. (Montreal, Canada) |
Optical Components
| AFL (Fujikura) - Polarization
Maintaining couplers |
| Agiltron |
| Alphion - Integrated photonic
components (Princeton Junction, NJ) |
| ANDevices -photonic
devices for FTTH, ROADM and long-haul communication. Products are based on
a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) |
| Axsun - |
| Azna |
| Calient - Optical cross-connects |
| Capella |
| CernoluX |
| Chromux |
| CIP Photonics |
| CoAdna |
| Coherent |
| Cyoptics -
InP optical chips |
| Dicon |
| Engana |
| General Photonics -
Polarization stabilzers |
| GlimmerGlass - Optical
cross-connects |
| ITF Optical Technologies -
Submarine-qualified optical couplers |
| Inplane - Maker of EDWAs.
Jerusalem Venture Partners,
Morgenthaler Ventures
(South Plainfield, NJ) |
| Kotura - VOA arrays |
| Lambda Crossing |
| Lightconnect |
| MEMX |
| Metconnex - ROADMs |
| NeoPhotonics - General
component supply: EDFA, RX, RX, TOSA, ROSA, MEMS |
| OmniGuide - Developer of
micro-structured ("holey") fibers. |
| Oplink - Lots of nice parts |
| Optellios - Active optical
components for reconfigurable DWDM networks (Ewing, NJ) |
| PhoXtal |
| Polatis - Optical cross-connects |
| Polychromix |
| Q Photonics |
| Santur |
| Senko - Lots of Polarization
Maintaining parts |
| Spectraswitch |
| Syntune - tunable lasers |
| Teem Photonics - Another
company with an EDWA (Meylan, France, near Grenoble) |
| Teraxion - Fiber Bragg
Gratings, Dispersion Compensation |
| Xtellus - dynamic modules and
components that are used as building blocks for reconfigurable optical
networking systems (Morris Plains, NJ) |
Other interesting stuff
Deceased
| Celion - "any distance WANs"
(Richardson TX and Tinton Falls, NJ) |
| Gale Force - Suppliers of test
and measurement equipment (Red Bank, NJ) |
| Innovance - A
start-up working on photonic networking solutions (Piscataway, NJ and
Ottawa, Ontario) |
| Internet Photonics - Carrier
Grade optical Ethernet. Funded by Sprout
Group. (Shrewsbury, NJ) Now Ciena. |
| Onetta - Optical amplifiers.
Matrix Partners,
Sequoia Capital,
HarbourVest Partners (Sunnyvale, Ca, and Piscataway, NJ)
Now part of Bookham Technology. |
| PhotonEx
- Another start-up doing 40 Gb/s work |
| Photuris - Optical
Networking. Funded by Artiman
Ventures, Columbia Capital,
Greylock?. (Shrewsbury, NJ) |
| Corvis - Ultra-long haul and
submarine systems (Dorsal) |
| Red Sky - Submarine system supplier. Funded in part by
Dolphin Equity Partners
(South Plainfield, NJ) |
Other Companies - The big guys
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