Sub-Assemblies
Pico Integrated Tunable Laser Assembly (pITLA)
The world is moving towards tunability. The combination of tunable lasers and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) allows datacom and telecom industries to expand their network capacity without increasing their existing fiber infrastructure. The market for coherent tunable transceivers will explode in the coming years, with LightCounting estimating that annual sales will double by 2026.
Since lasers are the second biggest power consumers in the transceiver module, laser manufacturers faced a paradoxical task. They must manufacture laser units that are small and energy-efficient enough to fit QSFP28 and QSFP-DD pluggable form factors while maintaining the laser performance.
Applications
The pITLA will be used in 100G coherent pluggables. This will enable the optical edge to scale from 10G to 100G DWDM or from 100G grey to 100G DWDM optics without forklift upgrades.
- Business Service: P2P single-span link with reach of up to 120km, controlled environment. Upgrades enterprise bandwidth between two offices or between the office and cloud provider.
- Fixed Access: P2P single-span link with reach of up to 120km, in uncontrolled environment. Upgrades the uplinks of termination devices such as Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) and Converged Cable Access Platforms (CCAPs).
- Mobile Midhaul: P2P single-span link with reach of up to 120km, in uncontrolled environment. Upgrades midhaul to DWDM coherent 100G technology.
- Mobile Backhaul: P2P multi-span link with reach of up to 500km, in controlled environment. Upgrades backhaul to DWDM coherent 100G technology.
Key Features
The EFFECT Photonics pico Integrated Tunable Laser Assembly (pITLA) is a continuous wave, tunable laser source specially designed for coherent applications in the optical network edge. It supports both commercial- and industrial-temperature (C-temp and I-temp) operating ranges and offers an ideal combination of power efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility to enable a seamless upgrade to a more scalable 100 Gbps pluggable coherent solution in a QSFP28 form factor.
- Narrow linewidth, suitable for 100G performance
- Compact enough to fit in the QSFP28 form factor
- Ultralow power consumption
- Offers design flexibility through modularity
- Commercial and industrial temperature ranges
- Command interface compliant with OIF-ITLA-MSA-01.3
- Full C-band tunability
- Includes on-board calibration data, controlling firmware, and hermetic laser assembly
