Bookham, Inc., incorporated on June 29, 2004, designs, manufactures and markets optical components, modules and subsystems that generate, detect, amplify, combine and separate light signals principally for use in high-performance fiber optics communications networks. The Company also manufactures high-speed electronic components for the telecommunications, defense and space industries. Bookham operates in two business segments: optics, and research and industrial. The optics segment designs, develops, manufactures, markets and sells optical solutions for telecommunications and industrial applications. The research and industrial segment designs, manufactures, markets and sells photonics and microwave solutions. On September 10, 2004, Bookham became the parent company of the Bookham Technology plc group of companies, including Bookham Technology plc. The Company has expertise in technology, such as III-V optoelectronic semiconductors utilizing indium phosphide and gallium arsenide substrates, thin-film filters (TFFs) and micro optic assembly and packaging technology. Bookham also has electronics design, firmware and software capabilities to produce transceivers, transponders, intelligent optical amplifiers and other value-added subsystems. Its products provide functionality for the various elements within the optical networking system from transmitting to receiving light signals. The Company's product offerings that are principally aimed at the telecommunications marketplace include transmitters, transceivers, tunable lasers and transmitter modules, receivers, amplifiers, pump laser chips, transponder modules, TFFs, transmitter optical assemblies (TOAs) and receiver optical assemblies (ROAs). Bookham's transmitter product lines include products with fixed and tunable wavelength designed for both long-haul and metro applications at 2. 5 gigabits per second and 10 gigabits per second. This product line includes lasers that are either directly or externally modulated depending on the application. The Company's small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver portfolio includes SFP products operating at 2.5 gigabits per second and 10 gigabit small form-factor pluggable module (XFP) products. The tunable laser products include both thermally and electronically tunable devices that are co-packaged with a modulator to optimize performance and reduce the size of the product. Bookham also has a technology to deliver wide band electronic tunability. The Company's portfolio of discrete receivers for metro, long and ultra long-haul applications at 2.5 gigabits per second and 10 gigabits per second includes avalanche photodiode (APD) preamp receivers, as well as photodiode (PIN) preamp receivers, and PIN and APD modules and products that feature integrated attenuators. Erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) are used to boost the brightness of optical signals and offer compact amplification for ultra long-haul, long-haul and metro networks. Bookham offers a semi-custom product portfolio of multi-wavelength amplifiers from gain blocks to full-card level or subsystem solutions for use in wide bandwidth wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical transmission systems. The Company also offers narrow band mini amplifiers. The Company's 980 nanometer pump laser diodes are designed for use as high-power pump sources for EDFAs. Uncooled modules are designed for amplification for metro, cross connect or other single/multi-channel amplification applications. A transponder module provides both transmitter and receiver functions. A transponder includes electrical circuitry to control the laser diode and modulation function of the transmitter, as well as the receiver electronics. These modules include a serializer that accepts simultaneous inputs of data at a rate that facilitates interfacing with a range of electronic circuits. These parallel data streams are electronically aggregated to form a stream of data that travels at a higher rate. Bookham's TFF products are used for multiplexing and demultiplexing optical signals within dense WDM

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