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Tunable Laser Market Opportunities, Market Forecasts, and Market Strategies, 2006-2012

Published by: Wintergreen Research

Published: May. 11, 2006 - 359 Pages


Table of Contents


Tunable Laser Market Executive Summary

Key Elements Of Tunable Laser Business Strategy

Tunable Laser Market Overview

Bandwidth Management

Wavelength Monitoring

Market Demand

Optical Component Competitive Positioning

Tunable Laser Market Shares

Tunable Laser Market Forecasts

1. Tunable Laser Market Dynamics and Market Description

1.1 Transmission And Reception Of Optical Signals

1.1.1 Optical Networking Industry

1.1.2 Telecommunications Tunable Lasers

1.1.3 Data And Storage Optical Components

1.1.4 Fiber Optic Communications Systems

1.2 Push To Develop Terabit-Class Optical Communications Systems

1.2.1 ESCON, Fibre Channel, and Gigabit Ethernet

1.2.2 WDM Within The Corporate Network/SAN Segments

1.2.3 Multiplexer

1.2.4 Demultiplexer

1.2.5 Full- Rate / Half-Rate Clocking

1.2.6 WDM: Wavelength-Division Multiplexing

1.2.7 Optical Transmission Interfaces

1.2.8 Optical Transmission Multi-Source Agreements

1.2.9 Compatible TOSA/ROSA Standards

1.2.10 Intelligent Photonic Solutions

1.3 Industry Environment

1.3.1 Tunable Laser Market Growth Factors

1.3.2 Fiber Optic Component Network Market Financing Factors

1.3.3 Demand For Network Capacity Is Growing

1.3.4 Telecommunications Industry Will Ultimately Improve

1.4 Optical Networking Success Factors

1.5 Companies That Purchase Tunable Lasers

1.6 Network Systems Increase In Complexity And Density

1.6.1 Optical Networks

1.7 DWDM Systems

1.7.1 DWDM Architecture

1.7.2 Modular Fiber Optic Components

1.7.3 Long-Distance Optical Transport Components

1.8 Tunable Laser Description

1.8.1 Reprovision A Network Ring Remotely

1.8.2 Tunable Lasers Increase Transmission Capacity

1.8.3 Tunable Lasers Switch Wavelengths

1.8.4 Shift To Packet Based Networks

1.8.5 Metropolitan Access Networks

1.8.6 Long Haul Networks

1.8.7 Grooming Bandwidth

1.8.8 DWDM Advantages

1.8.9 Optical Systems

1.8.10 Optical Signal Connectivity

1.8.11 All Optical Metro Ring

1.9 Fixed Lasers

1.10 Tunable Laser Application Enabler

1.10.1 Tunable Laser Positioning

1.10.2 Tunable Laser Advantages

1.10.3 Narrowly Tunable Lasers

1.10.4 Narrowly Tunable Laser Supports Network Reconfiguration

1.10.5 Widely Tunable Lasers

1.11 Performance Requirements

1.11.1 Applications Enhance Services

1.12 Tunable Laser Design

1.12.1 Flexible Provisioning Of New Wavelength

1.13 Tunable Laser Implementations

1.13.1 Sampled-Grating DBR

1.13.2 VCSEL

1.13.3 External-Cavity Laser ECLs

2. Tunable Laser Market Opportunities and Market Forecasts

2.1 Tunable Laser Competitive Positioning

2.1.1 Tunable Laser Competitive Environment

2.1.2 Optical Component Market Driving Forces

2.1.3 Optical Network

2.1.4 Need For Optical Component Quality And Reliability

2.2 Worldwide Tunable Laser Market Shares

2.2.1 Intel C-Band Tunable Laser

2.2.2 Santec Narrow Linewidth Tunable Laser

2.2.3 Fujitsu

2.2.4 JDS Uniphase / Agility Communications

2.2.5 JDSU / Agility Communications Tunability Tunable Transponder

2.2.6 Avanex

2.2.7 Bookham Tunable Laser

2.2.8 Bookham TLB-6000 (Vortex™) Tunable Lasers For Atomic And Molecular Spectroscopy And Interferometry

2.2.9 Bookham TLB-6000 (Vortex™) Tunable Lasers Atomic-Clock, Cooling, Metrology, And Phase-Shifting-Interferometry Applications

2.2.10 Opnext

2.2.11 Pirelli Optical Technologies

2.3 Lighting Dark Fiber

2.3.1 All-Optical Network

2.3.2 Optical Metro Markets

2.3.3 Redefining Network Configuration

2.3.4 Impact of High Speed Networks

2.3.5 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)

2.3.6 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Capacity

2.3.7 Multiplexing Family

2.3.8 10-Gbps Technologies

2.3.9 40G Driven By Demand For Voice-Over-IP And IPTV Services.

2.4 Tunable Laser Market Forecast Analysis

2.4.1 Tunable Lasers

2.4.2 Tunable Lasers Key Enablers For The Intelligent All-Optical Network

2.4.3 Tunable Laser Market Forecasts

2.4.4 Tunable Laser Market Forecasts

2.4.5 Tunable Laser Demand

2.4.6 Tunable Laser Market Growth Factors

2.5 Tunable Laser Pricing

2.6 Tunable Laser Regional Analysis

3. Tunable Laser Product Description

3.1 Tunable Laser

3.1.1 Intelligent Photonic Solutions

3.1.2 Dynamically Provisioning Bandwidth

3.1.3 Narrowly Tunable Lasers

3.2 Intel Tunable Laser Technology

3.2.1 Intel C-Band Tunable Laser Module

3.2.2 Intel® TTX11500 Full C-Band Tunable Laser

3.2.3 Intel Application To The Tunable Laser

3.2.4 Design of the External Cavity Laser

3.2.5 Intel Wafer of the MEMS filters

3.2.6 Intel Quasi-Planar Optical Packaging

3.3 Fujitsu Adopts Intel Optical Tunable Laser

3.3.1 Fujitsu

3.3.2 Fujitsu 22-Channel Single Substrate Tunable Laser

3.3.3 Fujitsu 44-Channel Tunable Laser

3.3.4 Reduces Spare Count

3.3.5 Next-Generation OC-192 Capabilities

3.4 Avanex Lithium-Niobate Tunable DWDM Systems External Modulators

3.4.1 Avanex PowerFlexTM 1926 SDH Transmitter And Receiver Pairs

3.4.2 Avanex Tunable CW Locked Laser Module PowerSourceTM 1935 TLI

3.4.3 Avanex Lithium Niobate PowerBit™ IM-2.5

3.4.4 Avanex PowerReach(TM) Dynamically Tunable Laser Modules for Tunable Transponder Products In the L-Band

3.4.5 Avanex Lithium Niobate PowerBit™ IM-2.5

3.5 JDSU / Agility Communications Tunable Lasers

3.5.1 JDSU / Agility Communications Tunable Lasers

3.5.2 JDSU Argon Gas Lasers

3.5.3 JDSU Solid-State Lasers

3.6 Santec Narrow Linewidth Tunable Laser

3.6.1 AR Coating Characterization

3.6.2 CWDM Filter Characterization

3.6.3 PON Filter Characterization

3.6.4 Optical Coherence Tomography: using UWS-1000G (Santec)

3.6.5 High output power compatibles broad spectrum range

3.7 Bookham Direct Modulated Lasers

3.8 Bookham Tunable Laser Products

3.8.1 Bookham New Focus Tunable Lasers

3.8.2 Bookham TLB-6000 (Vortex™) Tunable Lasers For Atomic And Molecular Spectroscopy And Interferometry

3.8.3 Bookham TLB-6000 (Vortex™) Tunable Lasers Atomic-Clock, Cooling, Metrology, And Phase-Shifting-Interferometry Applications

3.8.4 Bookham Transmitters

3.8.5 Bookham New Focus Tunable Lasers

3.8.6 Bookham New Focus DWDM Network Tunable Lasers

3.8.7 Bookham New Focus TLB-6000 (Vortex™) Tunable Lasers

3.9 Lambda Physik ScanMatePro

3.9.1 Lambda Physik ScanMatePro For External Nd:YAG And Excimer Pump Lasers

3.9.2 Lambda Physik ScanMatePro C With Integrated Nd:YAG Laser

3.9.3 Lambda Physik IB Options Module: Improved Bandwidth Performance

3.10 Iolon Apollo Tunable Laser

3.10.1 Iolon Tunable Laser Development Kit

3.10.2 Iolon Tunable Laser Integrable Assembly

3.10.3 Iolon Swept Frequency Laser

3.10.4 Iolon Widely Tunable Optical Filter for 50 or 100 GHz DWDM

3.10.5 Iolon Optical Channel Monitor For 50 Or 100 Ghz DWDM

3.11 Spectra Physics (Newport)

3.11.1 Spectra Physics 3900S CW Tunable Ti: sapphire Laser

3.11.2 Mai Tai One Box Ti: sapphire Lasers

3.11.3 Matisse™ TR Passively-stabilized Ti:sapphire Ring Laser

3.11.4 MOPO Series, High-Energy OPO

3.11.5 OPA-800C Ultrafast OPA

3.11.6 Opal Femtosecond OPO

3.11.7 Sirah Dye Lasers

3.11.8 Spitfire Pro Ultrafast Ti:sapphire Amplifier

3.12 LAMBDA PHYSIK:

3.12.1 Lambda Physik ScanMatePro C With Integrated Nd:YAG Tunable Laser

3.13 Iolon Tunable Laser

3.13.1 Iolon Swept Frequency Laser

3.13.2 Iolon Widely Tunable Optical Filter for 50 or 100 GHz DWDM

3.13.3 Iolon Optical Channel Monitor

3.14 OPNEXT

3.14.1 14 Pin butterfly laser diode modules

3.14.2 7 pin Butterfly Laser Diode Modules

3.14.3 XMD TOSA

4. Tunable Laser Technology

4.1 Integrating Switching, DWDM, And Other Transport

4.2 Internet Protocol (IP) Over The Optical Layer

4.3 Capabilities Of Widely Tunable Lasers

4.4 External Cavity Lasers

4.5 Tunable Laser Channel Count

4.5.1 Tuning To A Hundred Channels

4.6 Hornet Project

4.7 System Concept

4.8 MEMS

4.9 VCSEL

4.10 Tunable Laser Standard

4.10.1 OIF-TLMSA-01.0 - Multi-Source Agreement for CW Tunable Lasers

4.10.2 OIF-ITLA-MSA-01.0 - Integratable Tunable Laser Assembly Multi-Source Agreement

5. Tunable Laser Company Profiles

5.1 Avago Technologies

5.2 Avanex

5.3 Bookham

5.4 Colibrys

5.4.1 Products and Markets

5.5 Corning

5.5.1 Corning Cable Systems

5.5.2 Public/Carrier Networks

5.5.3 Private Networks

5.5.4 Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Networks

5.5.5 Telecommunications Segment

5.6 CyOptics

5.7 DiCon Fiberoptics

5.8 Emcore

5.8.1 Fiber Optics

5.8.2 Cable Television (CATV) and Fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) Networks

5.8.3 Telecommunications Networks

5.8.4 Data Communications Networks

5.8.5 Satellite Communications Networks

5.8.6 Storage Area Networks

5.8.7 Defense and Homeland Security

5.9 Finisar

5.9.1 Finisar Digital Fiber Optics for Computer and Access Networks

5.9.2 Infineon Fiber Optic Transceiver Business

5.10 Firecomms

5.11 Fujitsu

5.11.1 Fujitsu Network Communications

5.11.2 Fujitsu Considers WiMAX vs. 3G vs. Wi-Fi

5.11.3 Fujitsu FLASHWAVE® 7500 Small System

5.11.4 Fujitsu FASST Transition Solutions

5.11.5 Fujitsu Microelectronics America

5.11.6 Fujitsu Network Communications Inc.

5.12 JDSU

5.12.1 Communications Products

5.12.2 Modules and Subsystems

5.12.3 Test & Measurement

5.12.4 Commercial and Consumer Products

5.12.5 Custom Optics

5.12.6 Commercial Lasers

5.12.7 JDSU / Agility Communications

5.13 Mitsubishi Electric

5.14 NEC

5.14.1 NEC IT And Networking Technologies

5.15 NeoPhotonics

5.16 Oki Optical Components

5.17 OpLink

5.18 Opnext

5.19 Optium Corporation

5.20 Pirelli & C. SpA Group

5.20.1 Pirelli Tyre

5.20.2 Pirelli Broadband Solutions

5.20.3 Pirelli RE

5.20.4 Pirelli Ambiente

5.21 Santec

5.22 Sin Yu

5.23 Sumitomo

5.24 TriQuint

5.25 WaveSplitter Technologies

List of Tables and Figures

Table ES-1

Key Elements Of Tunable Laser Vendor Business Strategy

Figure ES-2

Worldwide Tunable Laser Market Shares, Dollars, 2005

Figure ES-3

Worldwide Tunable Laser Market Forecasts, 2006-2012

Table 1-1

Selected Communications Market Participants

Table 1-2

MSA Compatible TOSA/ROSA Standards

Table 1-3

Optical Component Product Qualification Process

Table 1-4

Fiber Optic Component Market Growth Factors

Table 1-5

Fiber Optic Component Network Market Financing Factors

Table 1-6

Telecommunications Industry Market Growth Factors

Table 1-7

Internet Traffic Broadband Content

Table 1-8

Optical Networking Success Factors

Table 1-9

Telecommunications And Cable Television Equipment Providers

Table 1-10

Fiber Optic Component Market Driving Forces

Table 1-11

DWDM Broadband Bandwidth Solutions

Figure 1-12

Hybrid Optical / Electrical Switching Matrices

Figure 1-13

Hybrid Optical Switching Matrix

Table 1-14

Difficulties With Fixed Lasers

Figure 1-15

Tuning Speeds For GCSR Laser Transmitters Of 4-Nm And 8-Nm-Spaced Wavelengths

Figure 1-16

Tuning Speeds Laser Transmitters Of 4-Nm And 8-Nm-Spaced Wavelengths

Table 1-17

Tunable Laser Advantages

Table 1-18

Performance Requirements For The Transport Markets

Table 1-19

Tunable Lasers Performance Requirements

Table 1-20

Optical System Advantages

Table 1-21

Tunable Laser Applications

Table 1-22

Basic Tunable Laser Structures

Table 1-23

Basic Tunable Laser Applications

Table 1-24

Features Of Tunable Laser Technologies

Table 1-25

Advantages Of VCSEL

Table 2-1

Tunable Laser Market Driving Forces

Table 2-2

Optical Networking Tunable Laser System Market Segments

Figure 2-3

Worldwide Tunable Laser Market Shares, Dollars, 2005

Table 2-4

Worldwide Tunable Laser Market Shares, Dollars, 2005

Table 2-5

Impact of Optical Switching on IP Transport Speeds

Table 2-6

10-Gbps Technologies

Table 2-7

10-Gbps Value Chain

Table 2-8

10-Gbps Active Optics Component And Subsystems Products

Figure 2-9

Worldwide Tunable Laser Market Forecasts, 2006-2012

Table 2-10

Worldwide Tunable Laser Market Forecasts, 2006-2012

Table 2-11

Reasons Tunable Lasers Replace Fixed Wavelength Lasers

Table 2-12

Tunable Laser Competitive Advantage Market Factors

Table 2-13

Tunable Laser Market Growth Factors

Table 2-14

Tunable Laser Specifications Required By Long-Haul 10-Gbit/Sec System

Figure 2-15

Tunable Laser Regional Segment Analysis, Dollars, 2005

Table 2-16

Tunable Laser Regional Market Analysis

Table 3-1

Tunable Laser Features, Issues, And Functions

Table 3-2

Engineering Challenges Of Tunable Lasers

Table 3-3

Intel Tunable Laser Technology Key Benefits

Table 3-4

Intel Tunable Laser Technology Key Features

Figure 3-5

Intel Tunable Laser

Table 3-6

Intel Benefits of Tunability

Table 3-7

Intel TTX11500 Key Features

Figure 3-8

Intel Block Diagram Of The External Cavity And Internal Coupling

Figure 3-9

Intel Temperature-Tuned External Cavity Laser Assembled On The Quasi-Planar Laser Welded Manufacturing Platform

Table 3-10

Layout Of The Intel C-Band Tunable Laser

Figure 3-11

Intel Tunable Laser Coupling Optics

Figure 3-12

Intel Optical Etalon Composed By Two Thermally Tuned Si Filters

Table 3-13

Control Functions In The Intel ECL Operations

Figure 3-14

Intel Wavelength Filter Selectivity

Figure 3-15

Intel Manufacturing Process Steps To Build The Tunable Laser

Table 3-16

Avanex Transmission Solutions Lithium Niobate Features

Table 3-17

Santec Narrow Linewidth Tunable Laser TSL-210V and TSL-210H Functions

Table 3-18

Santec Narrow Linewidth Tunable Laser TSL-510 Functions

Table 3-19

Santec Narrow Linewidth Tunable Laser ECL-210 Functions

Table 3-20

Santec Ultra-Wide Tunable Laser TSL-210F Functions

Figure 3-21

Santec Ultra-Wide Tunable Laser TSL-210F

Table 3-22

Santec Ultra-Wide UWS-1000

Figure 3-23

Santec Ultra-Wideband Source, UWS-1000

Table 3-24

Santec UWS-1000G Gaussian Spectrum Light Source for OCT

Table 3-25

Santec Ultra-Wideband Source with High Output Power UWS-1000H

Table 3-26

Santec Tunable Laser Operating Ranges

Table 3-27

Santec Emission Spectrum Of The UWS-1000

Table 3-28

Specifications of the UWS-1000

Table 3-29

Bookham Direct Modulated Lasers Modules

Table 3-30

Bookham New Focus Tunable Laser Specifications

Table 3-31

Iolon Apollo Tunable Laser Features

Figure 3-32

Lambda Physik ScanMatePro Professional Spectroscopy System

Table 3-33

Iolon Apollo Tunable Laser Features

Table 3-34

Iolon Apollo Tunable Laser Applications

Table 3-35

Iolon Apollo Tunable Laser Features

Table 3-36

Iolon Swept Frequency Laser Features

Table 3-37

Iolon Widely Tunable Optical Filter Features

Table 3-38

Iolon Widely Tunable Optical Filter Applications:

Table 4-1

Selected Optical Add / Drop Parameters For Tunable Lasers

Table 4-2

Selected Switching Tunable Laser Parameters

Table 4-3

Selected Metropolitan Tunable Laser Parameters

Table 4-4

Selected Long Haul Tunable Laser Parameters

Table 4-5

Selected Ultra Long Haul Tunable Laser Parameters

Figure 4-6

Stanford University Hornet Project Demonstrated Fast Switching Using A GCSR Laser

Table 5-1

Bookham’s Optical Solutions Markets

Table 5-2

Bookham’s Product Portfolio

Table 5-3

Colibrys Custom Market Applications

Table 5-4

Colibrys’s Products Range

Table 5-5

Corning Cable Systems Offerings

Table 5-6

Corning’s Hardware and Equipment Products

Table 5-7

Emcore’s Solutions

Table 5-8

Markets Served by Emcore’s Fiber Optics Segment

Table 5-9

Emcore’s CATV and FTTP Products

Table 5-10

Parallel Optical Transceiver Product Family

Table 5-11

Emcore’s Optical Components and Modules for Data Applications

Table 5-12

JDSU Components

Table 5-13

JDSU Custom Optic Products’ Uses

Table 5-14

Mitsubishi Electric Products

Table 5-15

Oki Optical Components’ Products

Table 5-16

OpLink Product Benefits

Table 5-17

OpLink Product Portfolio Solutions

Table 5-18

Opnext’s High-Performance Optical Components

Table 5-19

Sumitomo Electric Industries Optical Components

Table 5-20

WaveSplitter’s Fused Fiber and Planar Lightguide Circuit Products

Table 5-21

WaveSplitter Product Portfolio

Abstract

As networks are implemented for triple play, they become complex, driving the need for fast transport based on optics. Manufacturers of communications and computer equipment are increasingly value the ability to provide integrated solutions for both opto-electronic components and integrated circuits.

Tunable lasers address growing demands for capabilities to reconfigure networks remotely as broadband quality of service demands create the need for flexibility.

Integrated optical components include amplifiers, lasers, receivers, transmitters, and transceivers and transponders. Markets are growing in response to the need to have more efficient networks that are high speed and agile. Flexibility and re - configurability are aspects of optical based networks.

Market driving forces relate to the need for broadband, the use of the Internet to implement supply chain economies of scale, the ability to put together a network at less cost, and the increased capacity for communication systems provided by optical components.

Internet protocol architecture is significantly more efficient than circuit switched architecture. Circuit switches provide an end-to-end connection for voice traffic. This type of network architecture is very inefficient, tying up a line during the silences and pauses of a voice conversation. (or laser).

A laser is the device that generates the modulated light signal and transmits it through the optical system. By turning the laser device on to represent a digital 1 and turning it off to represent a digital 0 digital processing is made possible. Each optical signal has its own wavelength or frequency.

Multiplexing is the technology of aggregating multiple wavelengths onto a single strand of fiber. This process is accomplished through the use of optical devices called wavelength division multiplexers (or WDMs). It is designed to increase the capacity of the optical network.

Widely tunable lasers help maximize existing network resources. The ability to dynamically provision bandwidth provides the ability to meet demands for Internet access. Widely tunable lasers move traffic from overcrowded channels to unused channels. They simplify the planning process. When a provider purchases a tunable laser, the widely tunable laser can cover the whole C-band and, in time, another will cover the L-band.

Aggregate demand for tunable lasers is related to the need for network managers to manage 100 distinct wavelengths. One widely tunable laser transmitter can be a spare for 100 wavelengths, meaning a carrier can rapidly restore transmission on the wavelength of any failed transmitter, fixed or tunable. Using widely tunable lasers throughout the network deliver reconfigurability and economy of scale.

Tunable lasers offer multiple wavelengths in the same laser device. Categorizations for tunable lasers relate to metro and long haul, narrowly tunable and widely tunable. Long haul lasers do not need to solve complexity, nor do they need to be complex. Long haul lasers are used in the long haul network to replace single channel lasers in the event of a malfunction.

The market for tunable lasers at $183 million in 2005 is expected to reach $3.1 billion in 2012 (See Figure 2-46 and Table 2-47). Market driving forces are the need for dynamic reconfiguration of core networks. In addition, physical layer support for packet switching means tunable lasers will be used to implement broadband for the Internet.

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