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High Performance Optical Switches
- By Blair Nimmo
- Published 14th January, 2008
- Telecommunications
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Blair Nimmo
Blair owned one of the largest independent electro-optic suppliers in Europe. He has now started BBN International to address the re-emerging fibre-optic markets of datacom, telecom, aerospace and sensors. An Electronic Engineer, Blair developed marine satellite communication and medical image analysis systems going on to develop a software business. BBN International is based in rural Shropshire and is committed to changing the way companies do business to the benefit of the environment.
View all articles by Blair NimmoBBN International offers a mixture of technologies to address different needs including:
- Opto-mechanical - unique material technology for altering the light path - linear and rotary systems - ultra-low loss and high reliability
- Magneto-optical - solid state - fast and ultra-high reliability
- Electro-optical - solid state - low loss, ultra-fast, high reliability
Optical switches are available for:
- Single mode and multi-mode
- Latching and non-latching
- Polarisation insensitive and polarisation maintaining
- Regular and high power
- Bypass (multi-pole)
- 3-state (A<>B, A<>C & B<>C)
- Broadband
BBN International supplies this and other Agiltron technology. For more information visit the web site at http://www.bbnint.co.uk/active_devices/optical_switches.asp
