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Back-to-back, General Photonics Won “The 2001
Photonics Circle of Excellence Award”
Chino, California, January 21, 2002 –
General Photonics, a world leader in dynamic photonic signal control technology,
is pleased to announce that its DynaDelay™, a dynamic differential group delay
module, received The 2001 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award. Last year
General Photonics’ dynamic polarization controller won the same award.
Continuously winning this prestigious award reflects General Photonics’
success in developing innovative, excellent, and usable photonics signal control technology.
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 21, 2002. The Photonics Circle of Excellence Awards is
to recognize the 25 most technically innovative new products of the year.
General Photonics’ DynaDelay 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 Differential
Group Delay Module” Executive Publisher of Laurin Publishing said. “This award
is bestowed in recognition of excellence, innovation and achievement in the
photonics technology.”
“I am very thankful in receiving this award again.” Company’s Founder and
CEO Steve Yao said. “Winning this award was not easy, not mentioning
receiving this honor twice. We are greatly encouraged to continue our
efforts in developing technology with great value.”
DynaDelay is designed to provide programmable, low-insertion-loss, high-speed,
and low-cost management of the delay variations of two polarization components.
It can digitally switch the amount of DGD from –45 ps to 45 ps with 6-bit resolution
in less than 250 us. This technology offers an essential building block for
polarization-mode-dispersion (PMD) compensation.
A typical solution for PMD compensation consists of at least four functions:
a polarimeter to detect the state of degree of polarization; a polarization
controller to change any polarization state to any desired state; a differential
group delay to realign two orthogonal polarization components of a signal, and
a feedback loop to form an automatic control system. General Photonics has
successfully developed all key hardware components of a PMD compensation
system, two of which won this award.
In addition to PMD compensation, DynaDelay can also be used for precision
TDM bit alignment and as a true-time delay for steering phased array antennas.
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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