Interview with Finisar's Jerry Rawls

Finisar is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Gazettabyte interviewed Finisar's executive chairman and company co-founder, Jerry Rawls, to mark the anniversary.

Part 1

Jerry Rawls, Finisar's executive chairman and co-founder

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Bell Labs on silicon photonics

Briefing: Silicon Photonics

Part 2: A system vendor's perspective

• Silicon photonics as a technology has its challenges
• Its biggest impact could be to shake up the industry's optical component supply chain
• Silicon photonics will not displace VCSELs

An interview with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs' Martin Zirngibl, domain leader for enabling physical technologies, on the merits and potential impact of silicon photonics

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Avago to acquire CyOptics

• Avago to become the second largest optical component player
• Company gains laser and photonic integration technologies
• The goal is to grow data centre and enterprise market share
• CyOptics achieved revenues of $210M in 2012 

How the acquisition of CyOptics will expand Avago's market opportunities. SAM is the serviceable addressable market and TAM is the total addressable market. Source: Avago

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OFC/NFOEC 2013 industry reflections - Part 4

Gazettabyte asked industry figures for their views after attending the recent OFC/NFOEC show. 

"Spatial domain multiplexing has been a hot topic in R&D labs. However, at this year's OFC we found that incumbent and emerging carriers do not have a near-term need for this technology. Those working on spatial domain multiplexing development should adjust their efforts to align with end-users' needs"

T.J. Xia, Verizon

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OFC/NFOEC 2013 industry reflections - Part 3

Joe Berthold, vice president of network architecture, Ciena

The two topics that received the most attention, judging from session attendance and discussion in the hallways, were silicon photonics and software-defined networking (SDN). I predict that next year those who wish to capitalise on this popularity wave will be submitting papers on SDN-enabled silicon photonics.

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Fibre-to-the-NPU: optics reshapes the IP core router

Start-up Compass Electro-Optical Systems has announced an IP core router based on a chip with a Terabit-plus optical interface.

Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, showing Gazettabyte Compass-EOS's novel icPhotonics chip

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Achieving 56 Gigabit VCSELs

A Q&A with Finisar's Jim Tatum, director of new product development. Tatum talks about the merits of the vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) and the challenges to get VCSELs to work at 56 Gigabit.

Briefing: VCSELs

VCSELs galore! A wafer of 28 Gig devices Source: Finisar

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