Company Overview

Nature of Business Opto-Electronics Incorporated is a major supplier of high-speed fibre-optic test and measurement instrumentation to leading high-technology companies and laboratories involved in industrial and military applications. The company product line is based on its ability to generate and detect picosecond time-scale optical pulses, as well as to design and manufacture the high-speed signal processing electronics needed to take full advantage of this highly specialized capability. Major markets are in the characterization of short-haul optical-fibre local-area telecom and avionic networks, multisensor networks, and fibre-optic component analysis.

Major Achievements Opto-Electronics Incorporated is the original manufacturer of the world's fastest photodetectors and diode laser light sources, and the company has become one of the leading fibre-optic test and measurement instrument manufacturers in the world. The Opto-Electronics Millimetre Resolution OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometer)and the photon counting Optical Fiber Monitor are past recipients of the Photonics Magazine's Circle of Excellence Awards.

Company Profile Sales Volume: $3+ million per year Employees: 20 people; R&D: 9

Company Background Opto-Electronics Incorporated is the original manufacturer of the world's fastest picosecond/gigahertz photodetectors and diode laser light sources. Established in 1976, the company has become one of the leading fibre-optic test and measurement instrument manufacturers in the world.

Opto-Electronics' first product, the PD-10 picosecond photodetector, was introduced in 1979. This detector was the fastest commercially available device at that time. It was also the forerunner of an ever-expanding line of fibre-optic test and measurement instrumentation, ranging from ultra-fast fibre-optic receivers and transmitters to signal-processing instruments and systems, such as the unique millimetre and centimetre resolution OTDR systems based on a photon counting technique and the multi-gigahertz bandwidth tester.

Business Description

• Millimetre Resolution OTDR (Reflection Mode): available with a

wide range of options at wavelengths from 0.68 microns to 1.55 microns as plug-in units to a rack-mountable mainframe system.

• Fibre Bandwidth Measurement Instruments: especially suitable

for high-speed data links and local area networks at 0.85 microns and 1.3 microns.

• Fibre Cable Strain Measurement Instrument: based on the

millimetre resolution OTDR instrumentation.

• Photon Counting OTDR System: with a 30 db increase in

sensitivity that has enabled the detection of Rayleigh backscattering from optical fibres with an unprecedented cm-scale resolution. These instruments are available at wavelengths spanning the range from 630-1625nm.

• Portable Optical Fibre Monitors: completely self-contained

field portable Fresnel reflection OTDRs for short-haul applications having a zero deadzone and a distance resolution measured on a millimetre scale; these instruments are designed for telecom and avionics applications.

• Stand-alone picosecond laser diode source and semiconductor

detector instruments.

• Ranging and dimensional measurement through the atmosphere with

submillimetre resolution using the basic technology of the high-resolution OTDR system.

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Additional Details

Legal Name: Opto-Electronics Inc.

Number of Employees: 20

Total Sales ($CDN): $100,000 - $200,000

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Products

• Electrical/Electronic Prop Meas/Test Inst Nes
• Fibre Bandwidth Measurement Instruments

  Fibre Bandwidth Measurement Instruments: especially suitable for high-speed data links and local area networks at 0.85 microns and 1.3 microns.

• Fibre Cable Strain Measurement Instrument

  Fibre Cable Strain Measurement Instrument: based on the millimetre resolution OTDR instrumentation.

• Fibre Optics
• Laser Diode Sources, Semiconductor Diode
• Measuring & Meas/Controlling Inst Nes

  Ranging and dimensional measurement through the atmosphere with sub-millimetre resolution using the basic technology of the high resolution OTDR system.

• Millimetre Resolution Otdr (reflection Mode)

  Millimetre Resolution OTDR (Reflection Mode): available with a wide range of options at wavelengths from 0.68 microns to 1.55 microns as plug-in units to a rack-mountable mainframe system.

• Optical Apparatus/Instruments Nes
• Photon Counting Otdr System

  Photon Counting OTDR System: with a 30 db increase in sensitivity that has enabled the detection of Rayleigh backscattering from optical fibres with an unprecedented cm-scale resolution.

• Portable Optical Fibre Monitor

  Portable Optical Fibre Monitor: a completely self-contained field portable Fresnel reflection OTDR for short-haul applications having a zero deadzone and a distance resolution measured on a millimetre scale.

• Portable Optical Fibre Monitors

  Portable Optical Fibre Monitors; completely self-contained field portable OTDRs for short-haul applications having a zero deadzone and a distance resolution measured on a millimetre scale;

• Ranging And Dimensional Measurement

  Ranging and dimensional measurement through the atmosphere with submillimetre resolution using the basic technology of the high-resolution OTDR system.

• Reflectometer
• Scientific Instruments And Apparatus Nes
• Semiconductor Detector Instruments
• Stand-alone Picosecond Laser Diode Source
• Standalone Picosecond Laser Diode

  Standalone picosecond laser diode source and semiconductor detector instruments; in particular, a subpicosecond detector based on Second Harmonic Generation in GaAs waveguides is under development;

• Test & Measure. Instr. For Fibre Optics
• Time Domain Reflectometer

NAICS Categories

• 333990 All Other General-Purpose Machinery Manufacturing

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