Modulator, Specialty and Custom

For nearly two decades, JDSU has worked with scientific, aerospace, and defense clients to develop application specific solutions. Many of these solutions, at wavelengths from 800 -1600 nm, are available as specialty products. Full custom designs and limited production runs can be accommodated.

JDSU specialty modulator products have been developed to meet requirements beyond those encountered in telecom applications. Our products are designed, fabricated, and packaged in our ISO9001 certified, ITAR compliant facility in Bloomfield, Connecticut. More than 300,000 lithium niobate devices have been shipped.

For more information, e-mail: specialtymodulators@jdsu.com.

Applications

• High extinction switches for use with fiber lasers, geophysical sensing, and laser-based inertial confinement at wavelengths from 1 micron to 1550 nm
• Phase and intensity modulators used in phased array and sonar systems
• High reliability modulators for space-based applications
• Multifunction components for sensors and fiberoptic gyroscopes using 800, 1300 and 1550 nm sources
• Microwave modulators for flight-based EW systems
• Optically linearized modulators for multioctave analog applications

Services

• Optical device modeling and design
• RF and microwave device and package engineering
• Mechanical and environmental design and test
• Digital and analog link design and test
• MIL and GR device qualification
• Limited and high volume manufacturing

Fabrication Options

• Material: Lithium niobate
• Crystal orientations: X- or Z-cut
• Wavelengths: 800 – 1600 nm
• Waveguides: APE™ or Ti-indiffused
• Optical Power: to 200 mW
• Operating frequencies: to 40 GHz

Package Options

• Environmental: Hermetic or epoxy sealed
• Operating temperature: 0 to 70 °C or extended MIL temperature
• Storage temperature: -40 to 85 °C or extended MIL temperature
• Vibration, shock: MIL-STD-883 testing protocols
• Fiber: SM, PM panda, PM elliptical, PM bowtie
• Optical connectors: All types