Bookham Announces New Range of Tunable Pluggable Transceivers

(Product News, 26 Feb 2008)

Bookham Inc. will be showcasing its first full band tunable pluggable transceiver and outline the company's roadmap of tunable pluggable products, to include the XFP-E format, at the OFC 2008 taking place this week in San Diego, California.

The 10Gbps high end LambdaFLEX TL8000 module for long haul and metro applications is the first in a series of Bookham tunable transceivers that combines the benefits of full-band tunability with front-face plate pluggability. The TL8000 delivers high end performance suitable for long haul links and metro/regional environments at rates up to 11.3Gbps. It includes the fully Telcordia-qualified Bookham indium phosphide Mach Zehnder (InP
MZ) modulator and DSDBR laser transmitter—which underpin the TL7000 tunable transmitter assembly (TTA) and TL9000 tunable small form factor transponder (TSFF).

The TL8000 also includes the Bookham 10Gb/s Avalanche Photo Diode (APD) Receiver combined with electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) to provide enhanced performance in low OSNR environments.

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