Advanced Photonix, Inc. Announces a Design Win With Leading OEM Telecom Systems Provider Based in China, in 40 Gigabit High Speed Optical Receivers

This initial purchase commitment that will be delivered over the next 3 months exceeds $625,000 and has the potential to bear significant additional revenue during the coming fiscal year with follow on commitments to purchase the 40 Gb/s optical receivers.

This design win with a major OEM based in China, who is a key supplier to the rapidly growing BRIC, markets confirms that our efforts at penetrating the China OEM market are beginning to bear fruit and could provide significant future revenue, said Robin (Rob) Risser, CFO of API and General Manager of Picometrix. This design win is only one of several design wins with tier 1 OEMs based in China that were are pursuing. We anticipate additional design wins in both 100 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s products that will move to volume production status during the next fiscal year.

The BR-40D exemplifies the company's continued technology leadership in 40 Gb/s and emerging 100 Gb/s high-speed optical receivers. Picometrix offers the industry's most complete line of 100 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s HSOR solutions for both client-side and line-side modulation formats, including NRZ, RZ, DPSK, DQPSK, ODB, DP-QPSK and DP-BPSK.

The new design win is for 40 Gb/s long haul communications in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems that utilizes 40Gb/s DPSK (differential phase-shift keying) modulation. Our receiver utilizes the company's patented photodiode arrays to limit timing skew, which is important for DPSK modulation schemes that are used in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems. DPSK modulation takes advantage of phase modulation to extend transmission distances with high tolerance to crosstalk. This in turn lowers cost for systems implementation and decreases power consumption.