New Mexico-based compound semiconductor-based components provider EMCORE Corporation has received a patent award for its Active Optical Cable technology.

The new patent (US Patent No. 7,494,287 B2) with broad claims covers all fiber optic active cable applications and is believed to be fundamental to current and future market segments and platforms related to data communications links between information systems.

The company said that it is demonstrating the new 40 Gb/s ECC at the OFC/NFOEC Conference and Exposition on March 24 to March 26, 2009 in San Diego, California. EMCORE Connects Cables currently support 40 Gb/s Quad Data Rate (QDR), 20 Gb/s Double Data Rate (DDR) and 10 Gb/s Single Data Rate (SDR) and are available in lengths from 1 to 100 meters.