Advanced Photonix Makes $5.3M Optical Receiver Sale
Ann Arbor-based Advanced Photonix Inc. (NYSE Amex: API) said Wednesday that a telecom systems provider selected API's subsidiary Picometrix LLC to supply its 100 gigabit per second high-speed optical receiver, the CR-100A, for long haul communications.
The annual commitment is estimated at more than $5.3 million with volume shipments beginning in the company's fiscal fourth quarter, starting in January 2011.
Along with the commitment for the 100 gigabit per second gear, which is a new design, the systems provider also renewed its commitment to purchase $1.7 million of the company's existing 40 gigabit per second design to be delivered over the next calendar year, bringing the customer's total spend in 2011 to $7 million.
"We are dedicated to helping our customers meet the growing need for bandwidth by supplying technologically advanced high-speed optical receivers to deploy advanced fiber optic networks," said Robin Risser, general manager of Picometrix and CFO of API.
Risser said this agreement "is only one of several design wins with tier 1 and tier 2 OEM's that we are pursuing," and that the company anticipates several more sales of both the 100-gbps and 40-gpbs products during 2011.
The new design wins are for 100-gbps long haul communications in dense wavelength division multiplexing systems that use DP-QPSK and DP-BPSK modulation. The optical receiver uses the company's patented photodiode arrays, a complete optical front-end including 90 degree optical mixer, and high speed linear amplifiers to deliver industry leading performance. It comes in the industry standard CCRx Multisource Agreement form factor, is consistent with Optical Internetworking Forum Implementation Agreement for Coherent Receivers, and supports data rates up to 128 gbps. The receiver operates over the entire extended C and L band wavelengths and can be configured with or without an internal polarization beam splitter.
Advanced Photonix provides optoelectronic solutions, high-speed optical receivers and terahertz instrumentation for telecom, homeland security, military, medical and industrial markets.
More at www.advancedphotonix.com.
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