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Introducing A New Lightspeed Column: Out of His Depth by Simon Poole

2 CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on December 10, 2009

This month I am excited to introduce a new Lightspeed blog column, “Out of His Depth” to be hosted by Dr. Simon Poole, Director of New Business Ventures for Finisar Australia. For those of you not so familiar with Simon, here’s some colorful background:
Simon is an engineer and entrepreneur with nearly 30 years experience in [...]

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Video: Finisar WaveShaper S-Series Demonstration

No CommentsPosted by Rafik Ward on October 14, 2009

In September 2009 we introduced our WaveShaper™ S-Series for Optical R&D and Test Applications. We took the opportunity to demonstrate these enhanced optical processors at ECOC last month. Based on the powerful LCoS platform, these processors provide advanced arbitrary filter generation and switching capabilities to simplify and increase the precision of optical system development and [...]

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Introducing Finisar’s New WaveShaper S-Series

No CommentsPosted by simonpoole on September 16, 2009

My last posting on mixed channel plans for Wavelength Selective Switches mentioned using our WaveShaper Programmable Optical Processor to create a WSS with arbitrary channel centre frequencies and bandwidth. Today, I’d like to dig into the new S-Series range of WaveShapers to give a better idea of the flexibility of the LCoS technology [...]

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