Our Track Record
Our Track Record
“Our knowledge and experience are comprehensive and because of this we provide the best scientific and engineering value while maintaining the creative and professional integrity of any project. The fiber optical landscape is constantly changing. Being able to make recommendations about how to optimize design choices and maximize saving across platforms is invaluable. Click here for information on our extensive lightwave research, development, and manufacturing expertise.”
Here are two representative examples Publications and Patents for
Dr. Robert E. Tench
“Novel Highly Efficient In-Band Pump Wavelengths for Medium Slope Efficiency Holmium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers,” Robert E. Tench, Wiktor Walasik, and Jean-Marc Delavaux, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 3546-3552 (2021).
“Electroabsorption Modulator with Tunable Chirp,” US Patent 6,778,309
Dr. Robert E. Tench at SPIE Photonics West 2024 on the design and performance of 1762 nm Tm-doped fiber amplifiers for quantum computing experiments.
Dr. Robert E. Tench at SPIE Photonics West 2024 on research and development of novel Ho-doped fiber amplifiers with world record high optical-to-optical power conversion efficiency.
VG presentation
Dr. Robert E. Tench at GSELOP2022 in Edinburgh, Scotland on the design and development of 2000 nm band fiber amplifiers and components for present and future applications, including 2000 nm DWDM lightwave transmission systems and networks
Here is an arXiv link to a paper recently submitted to the IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology titled “2 μm Watt-level Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers, and ASE Sources Pumped by Broadband ASE Pumps”
A 2025 paper by Dr. Robert E. Tench titled ‘Design of a Novel 31.5 THz Bandwidth Hybrid TDFA/HDFA and Its Applications in 2000 nm All Optical Unregenerated DWDM Lightwave Transmission Systems.
Here are two representative examples Publications and Patents for
J. A. Nagel
- D. Poole, J. H. Winters, and J. A. Nagel, “Dynamical equation for polarization dispersion,” Opt. Lett. 16, 372-374 (1991)
- A. Fishman and J. A. Nagel, “Degradations due to stimulated Brillouin scattering in multigigabit intensity-modulated fiber-optic systems,” in Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 1721-1728, Nov. 1993, doi: 10.1109/50.251167

Dr. Robert E. Tench at the 1998 Lucent Technologies Analysts’ Day customer event, demonstrating a world record setting 40 Gb/s line rate DWDM transmission experiment with 1.4 Tb/s total capacity that was designed and developed by the Ogawa Lucent Bell Labs Research Department.

“Dr. Robert E. Tench in the research and development lab working on the performance of highly advanced fiber amplifiers.”

Dr. Jonathan Nagel, a world expert in simulations and analysis of lightwave systems and networks.

Linda Lanton, B.A., M.B.A, J.D., Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Attorney for RET and Associates.