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General Photonics Received “The 2000 Photonics Circle of
Excellence Award” for its Dynamic Polarization Controller
 Chino, California, January 23, 2001 –
General Photonics, a world leader in dynamic photonic signal control technology,
is pleased to announce that its PolaRITE II, a dynamic polarization controller,
received The 2000 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award from Laurin Publishing Co.
The award ceremony honoring this year’s winners took place in San Jose, California,
at the Fairmont Hotel concurrently with Photonics West Conference and Show on January
22, 2001. The Photonics Circle of Excellence Awards is to recognize the 25 most
technically innovative new products of the year. General Photonics’ dynamic polarization
controller was chosen as one of the winners by a panel of industrial leaders and experts
including Dr. Donald Scifres at SDL and Dr. Robert Alfano at Lucent.
“General Photonics Corp has been cited by Photonics Spectra Magazine for developing
on of the 25 best new products of the year – Dynamic Polarization Controller”
Executive Publisher of Laurin Publishing said. “This award is bestowed in recognition
of excellence, innovation and achievement in the photonics technology.”
“We are excited at receiving this prestige’s award.” Company’s Founder and CEO
Steve Yao said. “This confirmed the overwhelmingly positive responses from the
industry to our dynamic polarization product since its release in last October.
PolaRITE II is a multi-axis, fiber-squeezer-based dynamic polarization controller/scrambler
that promises to solve the polarization-related impairments of fiber optic
communications systems when the bit rate climbs to 10 Gab/s and 40Gb/s.
Penalties such as polarization mode dispersion in optical fibers, polarization-dependent
loss in passive optical components, polarization-dependent gain in optical amplifiers
and polarization-dependent modulation are unpredictable and require solutions that
are dynamic in nature and adaptable to random time variations. The PCS-3X Dynamic
Polarization Controller is designed to be integrated into control modules for
mitigation of these impairments as well as for polarization stabilization and
polarization-dependent-loss measurement.
Due to its all-fiber nature, PolaRITE II has almost no insertion loss, no back
reflection, no wavelength dependence and no polarization-dependent loss. It has
a response time of less than 30 μs. Activation-induced loss can be less than 0.002 dB,
making it suitable for compensating polarization-induced penalties in a feedback loop
and polarization-dependent-loss measurement. These superior performances, which are
at 10 times better than competitor’s products, allows General Photonics a convincing
competitive advantage.
The device's voltage half-wave is less than 35 VDC so that it can be driven and
controlled with low-cost electronics. It can also be used as a polarization scrambler
to randomize the light signal's polarization state.
General Photonics Corp. invents and builds dynamic optical components and modules
to facilitate the growth of next generation of fiber optic networks. Its technology
has strong competitive advantages in the applications of test & measurement
instrumentation, optical network monitoring and high-speed network conditioning.
Our products include dynamic polarization controller, dynamic differential group
delay line, high-speed in-line polarimeter, and other polarization related products.
For More Information Contact:
Victoria Santos (info@generalphotonics.com)
5228 Edison Avenue
Chino, CA 91710
TEL: (909) 590-5473 Fax: (909) 902-5536
WEB: www.generalphotonics.com
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