Press Releases

Aug. 2016
EpiPhotonics released small core fiber with 3.2 um MFD.

Jun. 2016 (New!)
EpiPhotonics released 1x2 and 2x2 optical switches with smaller and lower cost high-speed driver boards.

Jan. 2016
EpiPhotonics started a joint project with OA Laboratory and Keio University to develop optical Layer 1 switches for data centers under contract with NEDO. EpIPhotonics develops larger port count nano-second response optical switches which will be controlled by SDN so that power consumption will be significantly reduced.

Dec. 2013
EpiPhotonics has developed a 20 ns speed PLZT 8x8 optical switch and 20 ns speed PLZT Variable Optical Attenuators (VOA) which are the fastest available in the industry. (Press release)

Dec. 2011
EpiPhotonics developed the lower-loss electro-optic PLZT waveguides for nano-seconds speed optical switching. The new switch will be shipped from 2012 spring. (Press release)

Upcoming Events

Sep. 2021 (New!)
EpiPhotonics will be exhibiting at IP + Optical Network (iPOP2021) to show a prototype Flexible and Low-Power Consumption WSS together with ultra-fast PLZT Optical Switches.

Jan. 2017
EpiPhotonics presents newly developed nano-second speed optical switches including 8x8 optical switches and polarization maintaining optical switches. See you at booth #1319.

Aug. 2016
EpiPhotonics presents nano-second speed optical switches and small core fiber arrays at InterOpto in Yokohama. See you at booth #W-27.

Jan. 2014
EpiPhotonics presents nano-second speed optical switches and VOA at OFC/NFOEC 2014. See you at booth #3152.

Nov, 2013
EpiPhotonics presents high-speed photonics components and subsystems at ACP 2013 in Beijing.

May, 2013
EpiPhotonics presents high-speed optical switching subsystems at CLEO 2013. See you at booth #1440.

Jan. 2013
EpiPhotonics presents high-speed optical switching subsystems at OFC/NFOEC 2013. See you at booth #2552.

Aug. 2012
EpiPhotonics presents high-speed optical switching subsystems at ECOC 2012. Booth # is 426.



Mar. 2012
EpiPhotonics presents high-speed optical switching subsystems at FOE 2012.

Feb. 2012
EpiPhotonics presents high-speed optical switching subsystems at OFC/NFOEC 2012. Booth # is 2719.

Dec. 2011
EpiPhotonics presents high-speed optical switching subsystems including 1x2, 1x8, 1x16, 2x2, and 4x4,  at Photonics West 2012. Booth # is 6084.

Feb. 2011
EpiPhotonics presents high-speed optical switching subsystems including 2x2, 4x4, 1x8, 1x16, and VOA arrays at OFC/NFOEC 2011. Booth # is 2727.

Feb. 2011
EpiPhotonics gives a presentation on nano-second speed 4x4 matrix optical switch at OFC/NFOEC 2011. Paper # is OThD3.

• (OThD3) "Nano-Second Response, Polarization Insensitive and Low-Power Consumption PLZT 4x4 Matrix Optical Switch," Keiichi Nashimoto, David Kudzuma, and Hui Han, EpiPhotonics Corp.

Sep. 2010
EpiPhotonics launches PLZT high-speed 4x4 and 1x16 optical switches at ECOC 2010 in Torino, Italy. Products including 2x2, 1x2, 1x8 switches and VOA and prototypes are also presented. Booth # is 550.

Jul. 2010
An invited talk was given by Keiichi Nashimoto at the 15th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC2010) held from July 5 to 7 in Sapporo, Japan.

• (8E1-1) "High-speed switching and filtering using PLZT waveguide devices," Keiichi Nashimoto, David Kudzuma, and Hui Han, EpiPhotonics Corp.

Feb. 2010
EpiPhotonics launches high-speed optical switching subsystems and presents prototypes based on a newly developed low-loss PLZT waveguide at OFC/NFOEC 2010. Booth # is 2917.

Sep. 2008
A paper on PLZT coauthored with NICT was presented at 34th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2008 on September 23, 2008 in Brussels, Belgium.

• (Tu.3.D.7) "640 Gbit/s/port Optical Packet Switch Prototype with Optical Buffer using 1 x 8 PLZT Optical Switch and Parallel Pipeline Buffer Manager," Hideaki Furukawa (1), Naoya Wada (1), Hiroaki Harai (1), Naganori Takezawa (1), Keiichi Nashimoto (2), Tetsuya Miyazaki (1)
  1: Nat. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
  2: EpiPhotonics Corp., Japan

Feb. 2008
An invited talk was given by Keiichi Nashimoto at Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) held from 24 to 28 February 2007 in San Diego, CA, USA. Two more papers on PLZT coauthored with NICT or Keio University were presented.

• (OThE4) "PLZT Waveguide Devices for High Speed Switching and Filtering," Keiichi Nashimoto; EpiPhotonics Inc., USA
• (OTuL7) "640 (2×32×10) Gbit/s Polarization-Multiplexed, Wide-Colored Optical Packet Switching Achieved by Polarization-Independent High-Speed PLZT Switch," Hideaki Furukawa1, Naoya Wada1, Naganori Takezawa1, Keiichi Nashimoto2, Tetsuya Miyazaki1; 1Natl. Inst. of Information and Commnunications Technology, Japan, 2EpiPhotonics Inc., USA.
• (OMO4) "GMPLS-Based High-Speed Optical Slot Switching System Using PLZT Ultra-High Speed Optical Switch for HDTV Contents Delivery Network," Teruo Kasahara1, Tomohiro Tsuji1, Daisuke Ishii1, Yutaka Arakawa1, Satoru Okamoto1, Hiroyuki Tsuda1, Naoaki Yamanaka1, Keiichi Nashimoto2; 1Keio Univ., Japan, 2Epi Ptohonics, USA.

News

Aug. 2018 (New!)
EpiPhotonics contracted with Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications for the development of High-Efficiency Optical Access Metro Technology.

Nov. 2017
EpiPhotonics released ultra-fast 1x2, 2x2, and 1x8 optical switches packaged in smaller enclosures.




Jan. 2017
EpiPhotonics has developed nano-second speed single chip 8x8 optical switches and Polarization Maintaining optical switches which are the fastest available in the industry.

Nov. 2012
EpiPhotonics launched pigtailed small core fiber arrays for high-delta optical waveguide devices.

Dec. 2011
EpiPhotonics started a joint project to develop optical switches for low-power consumption systems with Keio University and AIST under contract with NEDO.

Aug. 2009
Development of efficient and high-speed PLZT matrix switch was approved as a project supported by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).

Sep. 2008
Keiichi Nashimoto was named a fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) for his contribution to optical networks by the establishment of PLZT thin film waveguide technology.