Press release :

Quebec City, Quebec - September 22, 2003 - CorActive, an independent manufacturer of advanced specialty optical fiber products, is pleased to introduce a new family of cost effective High Flatness Erbium Doped Fibers at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) in Rimini, Italy.

CorActive's family of High Flatness Erbium Doped Fibers (HF-EDF) with patented Confinement Technology provide a clear advantage in flatness over standard Erbium Doped Fibers. CorActive's HF-EDF flatness advantage directly translates into pump power savings (up to 30% savings of pump power). An optical amplifier using CorActive's HF-EDF requires lower pump power to produce the same output power. EDFAs empowered with CorActive's HF-EDF also benefit from reduced Gain Flattening Filter (GFF) costs and a superior noise figure.

CorActive's High Flatness Erbium Doped Fibers are offered with a peak absorption @ 1530nm of 4±1, 6±2, 12±2dB/m.

"These new fibers offer significant advantages to EDFA customers but most importantly they make them save money on other components such as amplifier laser pumps and Gain Flattening Filter (GFF), hence our Erbium Doped Fiber pays for itself" says Claude Adrien Noel, president & CEO, CorActive.

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