NFOEC 2003 ATTENDEES RECOGNIZE DESIGN ACHIEVEMENTS

Lightwave is pleased to recognize the winners of its third annual Attendees' Choice Awards, held at the 2003 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) in Orlando, FL, in September. The awards are designed to provide a "grass roots" view of what's hot and what's not, and many NFOEC attendees took the time to tell us which products impressed them the most at the show. Look for additional Attendees' Choice Awards opportunities at the upcoming OFC 2004 Feb. 22–27 in Los Angeles.

Civcom: 300-pin widely tunable transponder 
The XL-TT10G 300-pin widely tunable transponder can tune over the entire C- or L-band with 50-GHz spacing. Supporting multiple data rates from 9.85 to 12.5 Gbits/sec, it is available with an APD or PIN receiver, a dual-frequency jitter filter, and a zero or negative pre-chirp Mach-Zehnder lithium niobate modulator. A backward-compatibility feature allows the transponder to be used in legacy systems as a fixed or narrow tuning  transponder.