Aegis Semiconductor announced a low-cost, multi-cavity tunable thin film filter chip that could be used in reconfigurable networks. The filter, tunable over the 35 nm of the C-band, was built using the Active Thin Films technology platform developed by Aegis — a platform that enables the manufacturing of tunable components at the size, reliability, and price of passive components. Aegis predicts that equipment vendors will be able to use the technology to build a reconfiguarable, optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) at a price similar to that of a fixed OADM.
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- In March 2003, Aegis announced the first product in its Active Thin Films platform — the ‘mosquito’ Optical Channel Monitor (OCM). The device comes from application of a single cavity, Fabry-Perot, Active Thin Films filter stack.