Modulator Drives 100-Gb/s Networks

Sept. 18, 2012

Released in conjunction with this week’s European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, TriQuint Semiconductor’s model TGA4947-SL is an extremely high-speed optical modulator that supports both 40- and 100-Gb/s optical networks. This is the industry’s first dual-channel surface-mount optical modulator driver for these transmission speeds. Its compact form factor also helps to reduce the size of optical-communications printed-circuit boards (PCBs).

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Jack Browne

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.