April 1, 2025 - Advanced Fiber Resources (AFR) announced today that its 2D Fiber Array Unit (FAU), developed by its wholly owned subsidiary Vlink, has been recognized as a high-scoring honoree in the 2025 Lightwave + BTR Innovation Reviews in the Optical Components category.
Award-Winning Product with the Judge’s Comment
Vlink’s innovative nonlinear 2D FAU developed through specialized design and manufacturing processes. It achieves precise waveguide matching and effectively improves coupling efficiency. This advancement strengthens optical path stability, contributing to higher performance in wavelength selective switching (WSS) applications. Vlink’s 2D FAU integrates a hermetic feedthrough, simplifying sealing requirements and reducing both design complexity and sealing costs for customers.
2025 Lightwave + BTR Innovation Reviews Reception
About Lightwave + BTR Innovation Reviews The Lightwave + BTR Innovation Reviews program recognizes technology developers demonstrating excellence in serving the optical network and broadband communities. Judged by a panel of experts drawn from service providers, technology developers, industry analysis firms, and the media, the program evaluates each entry for originality, innovation, customer impact, its effectiveness in meeting new or existing needs, the novelty of its approach, and cost-efficiency.
Advanced Fiber Resources (AFR) is set to demonstrate its 400 Gbps/lane thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) modulator chip at OFC, which will be held at Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, April 1 – 3, 2025. Engineered for PAM-4 transmission systems, the chip is capable of transmission up to 1.6 Tbps with DR4/FR4, or 3.2 Tbps with DR8/FR8. Compared to other optoelectronic materials such as indium phosphide, silicon photonics, and traditional lithium niobate, the TFLN modulator features high bandwidth, low Vπ, low insertion loss, high extinction ratio, excellent linearity, and compact size, potentially capable of being implemented into pluggable transceivers or CPOs for data centers and AI clusters.
For more product information please contact sales@fiber-resources.com , or visit AFR booth# 5657 at OFC 2025.
Advanced Fiber Resources (AFR) is honored to announce volume shipment of 96 GBaud and 130 GBaud TFLN coherent driver modulators (CDMs) to global tier-1 customers. Both products are based on thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) technology, featuring baud rates of 96G and 130G, dual-polarization multiplexing, low insertion loss, low modulation loss, in compact OIF-compatible packages, and can be used in DP-QPSK, DP-16-QAM and DP-64-QAM modulation formats, for long-haul, metro and DCI coherent transmissions up to 1600 Gbps. In particular, both products can be used in C + L wavelength range with a single device, helping customers to save significantly in component and system level costs.
For more product information please contact sales@fiber-resources.com , or visit AFR booth# 5657 at OFC 2025.