Sumitomo Electric reaches milestone of 10 million laser diodes shipped
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (SEI) has announced it has now shipped more than 10 million semiconductor laser diodes (LD) for the optical fiber communication applications since its first shipment in 1991.
"Despite the upheavals and turmoil in the optical component market over the past decade, we have consistently supplied optical technology worldwide," said Ichiro Kono, General Manager of SEI's Optical Transmission Component Division.
The growing SEI laser portfolio includes wafers, chips, packaged devices, and transmitters and transceivers. The DFB-LDs offer low-voltage and high-efficiency operation across the spectrum from 1200 nm to 1600 nm. DFB-LD shipments alone are expected to pass five million by May 2007. The Fabry-Perot LDs are the foundation of lower cost transmission applications that do not require the performance of the higher-end DFB LDs.SEI produces the laser diodes in Japan and China.
