II-VI to boost its pump laser output

Jul 10, 2018

Manufacturing plants around the world for investment and expansion to meet the demand for data centers, communication applications.

II-VI Inc., a developer of diverse solutions for optical networking, has announced that to meet the increased demand for its differentiated product portfolio, it plans to increase the capacity of its power lines. 980 nm pump laser.

The company's sites to be expanded worldwide include platelet manufacturing plants and chip assemblies in Zurich (Switzerland) and Calamba (Philippines), as well as a manufacturing plant. mounting of laser pump modules in China

. In particular, II-VI claims that it will increase its production capacity to meet what it calls "a high demand for data center interconnections and increasing demand for ROADM". This new production capacity should be operational by the end of the calendar year 2018.

"Increased demand"

Simon Loten, General Manager of Division II- VI of the laser pump, said: our company has already discussed, we see increased demand for our products for optical communications. Our micro-pump lasers, one of our latest innovations, have set new standards in miniaturization, enabling transceiver embedded amplifiers for next-generation data center interconnects. "

The II-VI solid-state laser chips are designed and manufactured inheritance of high reliability that extends over more than 20 years." The Calamba, Philippines, factory houses the lines of Automated state-of-the-art assembly for laser sub-assemblies that are shipped to II-VI operations in Shenzhen, China, to complete the assembly of the pump laser module. in Shenzhen have delivered more than 3 million pump lasers, most of them under the brand II-VI.