On March 11, at 14:46 JST, a strong earthquake hit Northern Japan. The following is a report related to operations at Santec.

<Facilities>

Our Headquarters (Komaki City, Aichi) and Sinagawa Office(Minato-ku, Tokyo) had no damage to its buildings and equipments.

<Employees>

There is no report regarding injured. We are operating as usual.

<Material Procurement>

We are in the process of research. We haven’t recognized any serious problems yet.

<Manufacturing>

We are operating as usual.

We hereby express our sincere sympathy with the people who have experienced the disaster.

Features

Low loss, Low PDL, and Low Power Consumption
Up to 40dB Attenuation range
Compact Package
Telcordia GR-1221, GR-63 Qualified
RoHS Compliant

Applications

Gain Control for EDFA amplifier
Power Control and Equalization in Multichannel Systems

Santec, a leading design and manufacturer of fiber-optic components, sub-systems and optical instruments, developed highly-reliable wavelength blocker for OADM solutions in next generation optical communication networks. The internal optical block has no moving parts and the package is adopted hermetic sealing structure, which achieves high operation stability and long term reliability.

Features

* No moving parts
* Hermetic sealing package
* C-band or L-band at 100GHz or 50GHz spacing
* Wide passband with flat-topped channel profile
* Channel-by-channel attenuation and blocking
* High extinction ratio

Applications

* Reconfigurable OADM
* Network management (Protection and restoration)
* Dynamic Channel Power Equalization

Santec, a leading design and manufacturer of fiber-optic components, sub-systems and optical instruments, developed world’s first optical tunable filter technology that enables to create an arbitrary optical spectrum. The technology allows to design any complex optical filters for next generation optical communication networks, which were difficult to realize at conventional filter technologies.

Features

* Sharp filter edge (High figure of merit)
* Arbitrary optical filter designs available
* Tuning functions available
* Wavelength range: 40 nm (C-band or L-band)

Applications

* Bandwidth on demand, flexible network
* Next generation bundle wavelength OXC
* Adjustable and adaptive DWDM channel filtering
* Optical equalizer for high-speed optical signals
* Flexible test and measurement

A demonstration equipment utilizing this technology was shown in OFC/NFOEC 2008.

Product Name : Polarization Scrambler Module

Santec, a leading design and manufacturer of fiber-optic components, subsystems and optical instruments announced a commercially available hermetic-sealed polarization scrambler module (PS3300-S) to adapt for long-haul and submarine networks up to 10 Gb/s to minimize PDG (polarization dependent gain) in an EDFA (Erbium-doped fiber amplifier) for the first time. The PS3300-S operates at fastest modulation frequency of 1 MHz as an optical module that deploys excellent polarization scrambling technologies from Fiberpro Inc. The PS3300-S provides low DOP (degree of polarization) of several percent at 0 to 50degC in wavelength range of C-band or L band.

Product Name : Analog Filter

Santec has over two decades of experience in high performance thin-film filter technology. The development of the Analog Filter utilizes Santec technology to achieve high flatness and small ripples slope, for analog video overlay applied to CATV and FTTx. The analog filter is designed in the 1310nm band, in order to realize minimum dispersion and a high quality signal.

Features

(1) Highly reliable optical filter qualified by fiber-optic standard
(2) Excellent high flatness (<0.01dB) and small ripple slope (+/- 0.1dB/nm)
(3) Wavelength Band : 1310 nm Band

Applications

High flatness optical filter for analog video overlay applied to CATV and FTTx.

Market Forecast

Sample available from April 2008
10,000pcs for 2008 ~100,000pcs for 2010