Date announced: 5 Jan 2006

Besancon, France, January 03, 2006: Photline Technologies, a provider of high speed modulation solutions introduces the ModBox Series, a range of versatile transmitters and external modulation benchtop units.

The ModBox Series is a family of turnkey optical transmitters and external modulation benchtop units for both digital and analog transmission applications.

The Modbox design integrates within a 2U 19" enclosure a laser source (optional), a complete modulation stage featuring an external LiNb0₃ modulator with its RF driver and bias control circuit, and a receiver stage (optional).

The ModBox design can be tailored to specific transmission needs in order to provide systems engineers with reliable performance and high speed modulation capabilities, which include :

• Digital Modulation up to 43 Gb/s with either RZ, NRZ, PSBT, DPSK, QPSK
• Analog Modulation up to 20 GHz

Off-the-shelf, ready-to- use NRZ - RZ 10GB/s ModBox units are available for delivery

Photline Technologies is a supplier of lithium niobate (LiNbO₃) based modulation solutions serving the markets of telecommunication, defense and aerospace, sensing and instruments, research.

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phone +33-(0)3-81-66-66-22
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