Mike Desmond

Vice President and Product Line Manager for Coherent Components, NeoPhotonics

[email protected]https://www.neophotonics.com

Mike Desmond is Vice President and Product Line Manager for Coherent Components at NeoPhotonics. He has served in multiple positions at NeoPhotonics since joining the company in 2004. Previously, he held senior sales positions at Finisar and Raychem. Desmond graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1991 to 1997.

FIGURE 1. Received 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations without (a) and with (b) the presence of laser phase noise.

Lasers & Sources

Tunable external-cavity lasers power high-speed coherent transmission

Mike Desmond

Aug. 18, 2021

With the inception of coherent transmission, rigorous performance requirements have been placed on tunable laser technology. Researchers more and more are discovering in those...