Covega has established world-class proprietary technologies in InP and LiNbO3 to produce high performance optical devices and modules at a low cost with a very small footprint. Today, Covega is a leading provider of state-of-the-art opto-electronic components and subsystems with a wide range of products and services to meet the needs of its diverse customer base. Covega’s differentiator is in its superior product performance based on its proprietary intellectual properties in InP and LiNbO3 technologies. Technologies The company’s Single Angle Facet (SAF) solution permits superior performance for external cavity tunable lasers by providing broad bandwidth, high power and stable operation. Covega’s Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) line of products delivers industry-leading performance in high saturation power, large gain and low noise figure. Covega InP devices are based on highly efficient multi-quantum well structures. Manufacturing processes are based on well proven six-sigma-based chip fabrication processes. Covega InP products deliver high gain, wide bandwidth and are ideally suited for communication systems, instrumentation, photonics sensors, scientific applications and fiber optic gyros. Covega products can be used in a wide variety of applications that include commercial and military applications. The company’s LiNbO3 technology offers a family of high performance, Telcordia-compliant, external optical intensity and phase modulators with industry leading long-term reliability. The intensity modulators are based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers and are fabricated using titanium diffused Lithium Niobate substrates. Their exclusive bias trimming technology allows for the operation of intensity modulators near-zero volts at any desired operating point (quadrature, maximum or minimum). This application helps the user to achieve a substantial cost saving and operability enhancement in various telecom and non-telecom system applications. Covega modulators are based on x-cut and z-cut LiNbO3 wafers and can be configured to either zero-chirp or a fixed chirp. Modulators for emerging telecom applications like duobinary modulation, dual quadrature phase shift key modulation (DQPSK), and dual binary phase shift key (DBPSK) modulation are in development and early samples are available. Manufacturing processes are controlled using six-sigma processes leading to high yields and repeatability. Covega LiNbO3 products deliver superior performance over 10 Gb/s to 40 Gb/s and are ideally suited for communication systems, interferometric fiber optic gyroscopes and other defense and space applications. Covega’s fab-light and fab-less customers take advantage of their fully vertically integrated InP and LiNBO3 capabilities and foundry services which include device design and modeling, wafer fabrication and growth and advanced device packaging. Products Covega InP product families include SAF gain block, Semiconductor Optical amplifiers, Booster Optical Amplifiers (BOAs), Fabry–Perot Lasers, Broad Area Lasers, and Superluminescence diodes (SLD). Chip-on-submount, chip-on-heat-sink and butterfly or DIL package versions are also available. Covega InP products cover a wide wavelength range from 1050 nm to 1850 nm and find their applications in telecommunication, medical instrumentation and sensors. Covega LiNbO3 product families include 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s zero chirp and fixed chirp intensity modulators, 10 Gb/s modulators integrated with variable optical attenuators, modulators integrated with drivers and chirp controlled phase modulators.