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Laserline Selects Bookham Very High Brightness Bar for Industrial Direct Diode Systems

Zurich, Switzerland -January 22, 2008 - Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKHM), a leading manufacturer of optical components for industrial applications, today announced that Laserline has selected its Very High Brightness (VHB) bar to support their high brightness direct diode laser systems. Volker Krause, Managing Director and Cofounder of Laserline, a leading manufacturer of direct diode laser systems...

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Bookham Announces 4 Million Polarisation Stabilised VCSELs Shipped, Transitions Manufacturing to Zurich Facility to Meet Growing Demand

State-of-the-art Facility to enable scalable manufacturing to meet rapid growth Zurich, Switzerland - January 21, 2008 - Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKHM) has announced that it has shipped over 4 million polarization stabilised VCSELs for optical computer mouse applications, and that it has transitioned manufacturing to its High Power Laser facility in Zurich, Switzerland to meet increasing volume...

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Visotek and Bookham Team to Introduce Ultra-High Brightness 350 W Pump Block at Photonics West 2008

New high power laser diode pump block delivers 350W from a 200-µm, 0.2 NA fiber Livonia, MI and Zurich, Switzerland - January 21, 2008 - Visotek, a manufacturer of fiber coupled high power diode laser systems, special optics, and laser production services, has selected Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKHM) as laser diode supplier for its Ultra-High Brightness single-emitter based pump block. The fiber...

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Bookham Expands High Power Laser Diode Portfolio at Photonics West

New laser diode modules designed for booming fiber laser, direct diode and printing markets Zurich, Switzerland - January 17, 2008 - Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKHM), a leading manufacturer of optical components for industrial applications, will debut products from its rapidly expanding high power portfolio targeting high-growth industrial markets, at this year's Photonics West, taking place in San...

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Bookham to Enter Biomedical Illumination Market

Proven filter technology to underpin compact LED multiplexing module Santa Rosa, CA - January 14, 2008 - Bookham, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKHM), a leading provider of optical components for industrial applications, is to enter the biomedical market with its ZoroLight(TM) LED multiplexing technology. The compact LED combining module, which utilizes proprietary Bookham filter technology, is designed for...

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Fiber Laser Pump has fully qualified design.

Un-cooled single emitter module incorporates multimode pump laser chips. With fully qualified design that has undergone 5,000 hr accelerated lifetest under various conditions, it delivers 8-10 W light output power @ 940-960 nm from multimode fiber with 105 Â-µm core dia and 0.15 or 0.22 numerical aperture. Seed laser butterfly module, characterized at peak currents up to 5 A with 200 ns...

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Communication Systems & Equipment

Bookham to Launch First of New Discrete Optics Portfolio at ECOC 2006

XMD MSA compliant receiver to address long reach transceiver and transponder markets Cannes, France - September 25 2006, Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKHM), a leading provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, is to launch an XMD MSA compatible receiver optical subassembly (ROSA) with fibre tail assembly (FTA) at ECOC 2006. The product - one of the first of its kind on the market -...

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Integrated Tunable Laser Assembly operates in C-band window.

Suited for use from 1,528-1,563 nm, LamdaFLEX(TM) iTLA continuous wave tunable laser source provides internal SBS dither generation, direct input path for trace tone functionality, and field programmable firmware. Laser and control electronics are pre-mounted on dedicated circuit board to facilitate integration with users' system. Core tunable technology is built on monolithic structure with no...

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