Press Releases

Dec. 2011 (New!)
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

Feb. 2012 (New!)
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

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

Feb. 2011
EpiPhotonics closed series B equity financing led by Global Brain Corporation.

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.