Ultra Communications

We supply highly compact and robust photonic components for harsh environment applications, such as satellites, military airframe, UAV, missiles and cell phone base station applications.

We have developed a hybrid IC and optoelectronic integration approach that features:

	Standard planar manufacturing of photonic packages
	Single chip integration of multiple functions - transmitter, receivers and built-in-test
	High speed digital (10 Gbps) or RF photonic components
	Ability to optically monitor Vertical Cavity Surface Emitter Lasers (VCSEL) on a per-channel basis
	Operation over a wide temperature range and radiation
	Integrated Built-In-Test for In-Line Measurement of the following:
	* Optical Time Domain Reflectometry - isolate location of fiber faults to 1 cm * Optical power level measurements * Loss of signal on transmit & receive channels - programmable threshold * Laser characteristics - insitu operating conditions * Bit Errors and Channel Bandwidth (via eye diagram measurements)

We specialize in challenging engineering tasks: high-speed mixed-signal circuit design, packaging for high fidelity electrical and optical coupling, and testing at the wafer and component level.

End applications are primarily 8b/10b encoded data networking for short distance links (< 500 meters), such as Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, PCIe, Rapid I/O, Infiniband, SATA, SAS, XAUI, USB 3.0, etc.

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Photonic COREs - 10 Gbps Quad Transceiver components for Parallel Multimode Fiber:

8 mm x 8 mm x 2 mm (high)

0.1- 3 Gbps per channel

Interface to PRIZM^TM

4 transmit/receive channels

Flip-chip assembled

COREs

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June 2, 2011
Ultra Communications completes manufacturing line for CORE products.
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October 5, 2010
Ultra Communications and C-MAC MicroTechnology will jointly develop transceiver modules for harsh environment applications.
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September 20, 2010
Ultra Communications awarded Phase II SBIR and BAA awards to develop optical coupling to waveguides or fibers within rigid structures.
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all the new s

Evaluation Kits Available are now available for our Phantom X20 CORE and Single Channel VCSEL driver (with integrated memory for calibration data) and reciever components. Contact us for more information.

Quad Channel
CORE Eval Board

Single Channel
Single Channel Eval Board

Read our NAVAIR SBIR Phase III Success story here!