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II‐VI Incorporated has been awarded with two supplier awards from Hisense, a Chinese technology solutions provider. At a supplier event hosted by Hisense, II-VI was presented with the Core Supplier and Outstanding Quality awards by Hisense Broadband Chairman Weiping Huang. The awards are in recognition of II-VI’s high-speed VCSELs for short-reach datacom transceivers and active optical cables (AOCs), as well as microfilters and assemblies for long-reach datacom transceivers.
Hisense recognized II-VI for supporting their ability to meet the sustained demand for their datacom products, which is driven by the global build-out of the cloud infrastructure, particularly in China where the hyperscale datacenter footprint is growing rapidly. According to Dr. Karlheinz Gulden, Vice President, Laser Devices and Systems Business Unit, II-VI Inc, this was the company’s third award from Hisense in three years in recognition of their VCSEL devices. Both the companies are now aiming at much more stronger relationship now that II-VI is offering the most complete portfolios of optoelectronics in the industry, based on world-class gallium arsenide and indium phosphide technology platforms, which will enable datacenter upgrades to 200G and 400G.
According to Dr. Guanglong Yu, Vice President, Advanced Optics Business Unit, II-VI Inc, the award is a strong testament to II-VI’s micro-optics technology platform differentiated by its very low loss performance, especially compared with other alternatives in silicon photonics. The company’s precision thin-film coatings technology platform has long proven its low-cost and high-volume capabilities, with hundreds of millions of filters deployed in fiber-to-the-home networks worldwide. Enabled by high-volume automated assembly manufacturing, it is again the technology of choice for wavelength multiplexing and de-multiplexing in long-reach Ethernet transceivers.
II‐VI offers one of the most complete portfolios of optical components and subsystems in the industry for 100 m to 10 km intra-datacenter applications. These high-speed products include vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), high-speed directly modulated lasers (DMLs) and electro-optically modulated edge-emitting lasers (EMLs), high-speed and monitoring photodetectors, micro-optics and micro-optic subassemblies, as well as driver electronics chip sets.
