LASER COMPONENTS is excited to introduce iXblue’s NIR-MX800-LN amplitude and NIR-MPX800 phase electro-optical modulators featuring a wide bandwidth of up to 40 GHz, designed to operate between 780 nm to 960 nm. The modulator chip is tested for wavelengths 780 nm, 850 nm or 950 nm to guarantee mono-mode propagation property over the optical LiNbO3 waveguide.
These modulators have become the reference components for many applications. In telecommunications and particularly data-com applications (short reach SR4 standard), the NIR-MX800 is integrated in transmitters to generate bit rates of up to 56 Gb/s, and also used by the scientific community for quantum optics, cold atoms and atomic clocks. Amplitude modulators offer high carrier suppression to generate high quality carrier-suppressed double-sideband (CS-DSB) signal. Both the NIR-MX800 and NIR-MPX800 are today used for CS-DSB.
The NIR-MPX800 is designed with a specific RF electrode which enables generation of ultra-short optical pulses with very short rise times (in the order of a few picoseconds). Furthermore, we can offer extinction ratio greater than 30 dB.
