Optical DSP wins magazine award

The EnLight256, the industry's first commercial optical digital signal processor, has received an award from Electronic Products Magazine for "product of the year".

The EnLight256, the industry's first commercial optical digital signal processor, has received an award from Electronic Products Magazine for "product of the year".

The optical processor provides an orders of magnitude performance acceleration, power reduction and cost reduction over traditional all-electronic solutions in a standard board sized package.

The EnLight256 enables cost-effective breakthrough solutions in homeland security, video compression, video processing, medical imaging and wireless systems.

"We are honoured that Electronic Products, a leading information source for electronics design engineers, chose our EnLight256 as product of the year", said Lenslet's CEO, Aviram Sariel.

"Receiving this award validates the value Lenslet's electro-optic technology brings to the electronic design community, opening new frontiers for product vendors.

EnLight based systems, being designed today, will dominate their markets due to advanced features, low cost and small size".

Chosen from thousands of products introduced in 2003, Electronic Products' awards went to 18 products that provide "significant advances in technology or its application, a decided innovation in design, or a substantial gain in price-performance".

"Speculation about extremely fast optical computing has existed since the invention of the laser.

Delivering on those predictions, the first commercially available optical DSP, the EnLight256, can perform 8 x 10e12 operations in a single second - a speed roughly three orders of magnitude faster than traditional devices", said Alix Paultre, Senior Editor of Electronic Products Magazine.

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