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Athermal ITU reference filters are a new product family for Fibera and represents the company's debut at the component level of the optical equipment ladder. The company also offers products at the module level -- wavelength lockers for discrete (external) or integrated (internal) platforms, frequency stabilization circuits, and an evaluation solution (hardware and software) for its wavelength lockers.

Fibera's new Fabry-Perot filters as well as wavelength lockers will be on display at the company's booth at the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference & Exposition -- 3759. OFC is scheduled for March 23-28 in Atlanta, GA, USA, with the show floor open from the 25th through the 27th.

FPIF and FPIR are intended for use in two markets -- instrumentation and telecommunications. Potential customers in instrumentation include manufacturers and end users of optical spectrum analyzers, optical wavelength meters, optical performance monitors, optical channel monitors, tunable filters with ITU stops and other test and measurement instruments requiring built-in wavelength reference.

In telecommunications, potential customers are subsystem or system equipment vendors. The filters can be used in network monitoring equipment to monitor performance, in particular wavelength stability in frequency-agile, tunable optical networks. They also can be built into tunable lasers and tunable filters.

"In both series of our Fabry-Perot filters, Fibera is providing a technical breakthrough in a low-cost optical component at a time when our customers are experiencing strong pricing pressure. The filters are an excellent complement to our existing line of wavelength lockers," said John Tsai, president, Fibera, Inc. "Not only are FPIF and FPIR the industry's first Fabry-Perot filters, they can be used for any application where a stable ITU reference is needed and offer the unique functionality of thermally stable ITU grid reference of +/- 1.25 GHz or better."

About the Fibera FPIF Series

FPIF is ideal for wavelength stabilization in transmission and DWDM tunable filter applications. It can be used to stabilize the laser frequency to within +/- 1.25 GHz for typical channel spacing -- 25, 50 and 100 GHz -- as specified by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

About the Fibera FPIR Series

FPIR is a reflective device for use in calibration applications, such as DWDM channel monitoring, optical spectrum analyzer/wavelength meter calibration, and tunable filter ITU channel setting applications.

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