Dortmund, 5 November 2026. Innolume has introduced the BOA1260050YY950MXXXX, a commercially available watt-class booster optical amplifier delivering 950 mW CW fiber-coupled output power at 1260 nm.
The amplifier combines a 50 nm 3-dB gain bandwidth with a compact 14-pin butterfly package and an integrated thermoelectric cooler (TEC). It is built on Innolume's GaAs quantum-dot platform and is designed to support reliable high-power operation.
The BOA can be combined with Innolume DFB lasers in the 1260 nm wavelength range, pairing a semiconductor seed laser with a dedicated power amplification stage. The seed laser must provide sufficient power to account for any optical losses before the amplifier.
At 25 °C, the amplifier reaches 950 mW with a drive current of up to 3 A and 100 mW (20 dBm) of optical signal power delivered to its input. Typical CW output power versus drive current at 25 °C with a 100 mW (20 dBm) input signal at 1260 nm reaches 1 W. ASE power from both fiber ports and the forward voltage, measured without an input signal, are shown for reference.
Innolume is based at Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 11, 44263 Dortmund, Germany.
Source: Innolume news
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