Company profile
Mission
Syntune provides provides reliable, compact, mass market tunable lasers, enabling competitive tunable transceivers that replace all fixed wavelength transmitters in DWDM line cards.
Summary
Syntune was founded in January 2003 by a team of nine industry professionals with extensive experience on integrated widely tunable laser diodes. Syntune acquired an exclusive world-wide license to a key patent on a novel tunable laser design, the modulated grating Y-branch (MG–Y) laser, that is jointly owned by IMEC (Belgium), Ghent University (Belgium) and Gayton Photonics (UK).
The MG–Y design not only yields superior technical performance — wide tuning range, high and even output power, high side-mode suppression ratio, low power consumption, and ultra-fast tuning — it also is highly manufacturable, allowing Syntune to outsource its chip processing and packaging. Syntune can thus provide flexible, cost-effective solutions without compromising quality and reliability, by taking advantage of the existing capacity in semiconductor laser fabs around the world. Laser design, characterisation, burn-in, and reliability testing are done in-house, at Syntune's offices in Kista, Sweden.
Applications for Syntune's tunable lasers range from fiber-optic communications to sensor systems. In communications, Syntune's lasers enable universal DWDM transceivers with low power consumption in a small form factor. Such universal transceivers drastically reduce overhead costs for sparing and maintaining inventories, since only a single part has to be stored instead of a different one for each DWDM channel. Tunability also enables flexible networks, which allows operators to offer innovative services and reduces their operational expenditures.
In other applications, including gas spectroscopy, fiber-optic sensor interrogation, and optical component test & measurement, Syntune's lasers allow spectral measurements to be made at rates unmatched by existing solutions.