Agility Awarded Multimillion Dollar Government Contract for Tunable Lasers

Agility Communications announced a U.S. government contract for the development of widely tunable lasers with monolithically integrated modulators (EMLs). The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract, valued at $5.5 million if fully funded through three phases, is part of the Chip-Scale Wavelength Division Multiplexing program aimed at developing multifunctional photonic chips for WDM networks on military platforms. Agility said DARPA tests of its widely tunable EMLs demonstrated that over a distance of 1,080 kilometers, Agility's 2.5 Gbps EML performed as well as a distributed feedback laser (DFB) with an external lithium niobate modulator.
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