II‐VI Incorporated Showcases New Optical Amplifiers, Pump Lasers, Optical Monitors and Transceiver-Embedded Components at OFC 2016

PITTSBURGH, March 14, 2016 -- II‐VI Incorporated (NASDAQ:IIVI), a leading provider of solutions for next generation optical networks, today announced that it will be exhibiting at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) in Anaheim, California, on March 22-24, 2016, in Booth # 3809.

II-VI will showcase a broad portfolio of optical communication products:

Intelligent Subsystems & Line Cards: II-VI designs and manufactures line cards for next-generation systems using a broad portfolio of small components and intelligent modules produced in-house. These line cards feature mature, stable and reliable software controls as well as differentiated optical monitoring methods, continually improving in performance and value.

Embedded Optical Monitoring: II-VI offers the broadest range of embedded optical monitoring solutions. II-VI’s channel monitors are the smallest in the world and capable of monitoring super-channels on a flexible grid. II-VI’s new OCM features a dwell mode to enable advanced signal analysis on a selected channel. II-VI’s new OTDR+ platform, designed with patent-pending technologies, performs sensitive fault location measurements using very low optical power.

Vertically Integrated Optical Amplifiers: II-VI designs and manufactures optical amplifiers including the pump laser chips and the micro-optics. These and other optical functions are packaged in hybrids, arrays or hybrid-arrays, to minimize cost and size. This results in custom-designed optical amplifiers that are small, efficient and cost effective.

980 nm Pump Lasers: II-VI continues to evolve its 980 nm pump laser portfolio, boosting the launched optical power to new levels or dramatically shrinking the package size. The new 1 W pump laser is capable of replacing pairs of lower power modules, enabling cost-effective, more thermally efficient and environmentally conscious designs. The cooled dual-chip pump laser delivers 2 x 810 mW of optical power to meet the most demanding arrayed or multi-stage amplifier designs.

Transceiver-Embedded Amplifiers & Components: II-VI offers the most complete portfolio of small, hybrid and tunable optical components designed to meet the compact physical requirements of high density transceivers. The new 8-pin uncooled 980 pump lasers feature 80 µm diameter tight-bend low-loss fiber pigtails designed to fit in tight spaces.

Tunable Receivers & Burst-Mode Amplifiers for NG-PON2: For upstream TWDM PON links, II-VI recently announced a prototype stage burst-mode gain-controlled optical amplifier. For downstream transmission, II-VI has demonstrated a miniaturized tunable receiver that can be integrated in standard bidirectional optical subassemblies (BOSAs).

Products for Optical Switching & Wavelength Routing: II-VI’s optical switches and flat-top tunable filters for 50 GHz channel spacing are compact and cost-effective solutions for wavelength routing and optical path-protection switching at the edge of the network. The high port-count MEMS optical switch is especially well suited for applications requiring frequent switching, such as when monitoring multiple points in the network.

About II-VI Incorporated

II-VI Incorporated, a global leader in engineered materials and opto-electronic components is a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, with research and development, manufacturing, sales, service, and distribution facilities worldwide, the Company produces a wide variety of application-specific photonic and electronic materials and components, and deploys them in various forms including integrated with advanced software to enable our customers.

CONTACT: 
Mark Lourie
Director of Marketing
Optical Communications Group
(781) 569-1607
www.ii-vi-photonics.com