Applied Optoelectronics

About Applied Optoelectronics

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We are a leading provider of fiber‑optic networking products We serve four growing end-markets: internet data centers (Data Center), Cable Television Broadband (CATV), fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), and telecommunications We design and manufacture a range of optical communications products employing our vertical integration strategy from laser chips, components, subassemblies and modules to complete turn-key equipment We design, manufacture and integrate our own analog and digital lasers using a proprietary Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) fabrication process, which we believe is unique in our industry The lasers we manufacture are proven to be reliable over time and highly tolerant of changes in temperature and humidity (delivering millions of hours service), making them well-suited to the CATV and FTTH markets where networking equipment is often installed outdoors

« Select an application or product type from the left for more information Excellent linearity • Designed for RF modulation to 1000 MHz RoHS compliant package • Fully GR-468 Telcordia compliant The CATV market is our largest and most established market, for which we supply a broad array of products including lasers, transmitters and turn-key equipment In 2012, we were the leading provider of optical components and the second largest provider of subsystems to the CATV industry, according to research firm Ovum Limited, or Ovum Sales of headend, node and distribution equipment have contributed significantly to our growth in recent years as a result of our ability to meet the needs of CATV equipment vendors who have begun to outsource both the design and manufacture of this equipment While equipment vendors have relied upon third parties to assemble portions of their products, within the past four years certain of our customers have accelerated the outsourcing of both the design and manufacturing of both headend equipment and node equipment to third parties The shift is due in part to the sophisticated engineering expertise needed to perform this work We believe that our extensive high-speed optical, mixed‑signal semiconductor and mechanical engineering capabilities position us well to benefit from these industry dynamics

SFP, SFP+, OSFP, and QSFP modules
Data Rates from 1
25G to 800G
Ethernet & Fibre Channel & Sonet/SDH Downstream/Upstream rates up to 2 5 Gbps • Wide operating temperature range RoHS compliant package • Fully GR-468 Telcordia compliant The FTTH market generally refers to the Passive Optical Networks, or PONs, that telecommunications service providers are deploying PONs take their name from the use of passive splitters to divide the optical signal provided to each residential user over a shared fiber-optic cable from a service provider’s central office The equipment in the service provider’s central office is called an optical line terminal, or OLT, and the equipment at the end user is an optical network unit, or ONU PON is supporting a unified fiber-based access network strategy for many operators PON is being deployed for both residential and nonresidential customers and applications, such as business services In addition, several operators have plans to deploy next-gen PON to support xHaul transport for 5G small cells According to a 2021 Omdia report, PON equipment revenue from 2020 to 2026 is forecasted to have a CAGR of 10% Out of the PON equipment revenue, Next-gen PON (10G GPON, NG-PON2, 25G GPON, 50G GPON, 10G EPON, 25G/50G EPON) equipment revenue is forecast to grow at a significant 36% CAGR from 2020 to 2026

SFP and SFP+ MSA Compliant • RoHS compliant In contrast with transceivers used in data centers and datacom, which are typically designed for shorter reach applications, telecom transceivers are primarily designed for longer reach and often for broader operating temperatures for outdoor installation, and for other telecom-specific applications such as CPRI

AOI's telecom product portfolio includes SFP and SFP+ MSA-compliant pluggable modules with data rates up to 10G and utilizing TDM, DWDM, and CWDM for use in transport and wireless backhaul in support of modern LTE wireless networks as well as fronthaul applications such as CPRI and OBSAI AOI also offers pluggable modules and discrete components designed for legacy networks and applications including WCDMA and CDMA

Distributed FOS • Customized Design Industrial/Environmental Gas Sensing Lasers for telecom, datacom, and other digital communications applications

We offer a complete line of highly linear lasers and photodiodes for Cable Television applications Analog lasers with wider frequency responses for CDMA, W-CDMA, GSM, and PCS antenna remoting and other high-frequency applications

Low Capacitance Photodiodes for use in 1310-nm and 1550-nm Analog Applications High performance and high-reliability optical BiDi and triplexer modules for FTTH applications High performance and high-reliability optical lasers for sensing applications