Description

Gigalight designs and manufactures innovative, photonic integrated circuit (PIC) based MEMS (micro electro-mechanical systems) Variable Optical Attenuator for next generation, dynamically configurable optical networks.

Gigalight’ MEMS products based on electrostatic MEMS technology, The reflective mirror MEMS technology enables the creation of products with high attenuation levels and can be configured as bright or dark devices. When combined with the Gigalight advanced packaging and manufacturing capabilities, this results in a new category of MEMS components that are designed to exceed specifications for performance, compactness, manufacturability and reliability.

Features

1) Low insertion loss

2) Low polarization dependent loss

3) Compact design

4) Low power consumption

5) Insensitive to shock and vibration

Applications

1) Power control and equalization in multi channel systems

2) Gain-tilt control in EDFAs

3) Receiver protection

4) Channel on/off switching