Fiber Optic Collimator Lens Assembly Global Market Forecast

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a leading market research & technology
forecast consultancy addressing the fiber optics communications industry, today
announced the release of a new market forecast of the global market consumption
and technology trends of commercial (non-military) fiber optic collimating lens
assemblies, which are used in optical communication applications.

 

The market study covers single lens
assemblies, 2-12 lens arrays, and arrays with more than 12 lenses. Both of the
lens array categories are forecast with strong growth rates of more than 45%
per year (2013-2018).  Single lens fiber
optic collimator assemblies hold the global market share lead in the selected
optical communication applications covered in the ElectroniCast study.

 

“Collimator lenses (and lens assemblies)
are used in a variety of photonic products; however this market study forecasts
the use of micro-sized collimator lens assemblies, which are used specifically
in optical communication components/devices. Fiber optic collimator lens
assemblies serve as a key indicator of the growth of the fiber optic
communication component industry,” said Stephen Montgomery, Director of the
Fiber Optic Component group at the California-based consultancy.

 

ElectroniCast defines lens assemblies as
lenses (one or more), which are attached to an optical fiber or fitted/attached
into (or on) a planar waveguide/array substrates or other device(s) for the
purpose of collimating light for optical fiber communication.

 

The global consumption of fiber optic
collimator lens assemblies, which are used in commercial optical communication
applications, reached $264.2 million last year in 2013 and is forecast to reach
$298.4 million this year (2014), an increase of 12.9%.    The American and APAC regions are forecast
to remain relatively close together in relative consumption value market
share.  The Europe, Middle East and
Africa regional segment (EMEA) is forecast with the fastest average annual
growth rate during the forecast period. 
Market forecast data in the ElectroniCast report refers to consumption
(use) for a particular calendar year; therefore, this data is not cumulative data.

 

Fiber optic collimator lens assemblies are
widely used to covert a divergent output laser beam from a fiber or waveguide
into an expanding beam of parallel light; therefore, they are used in a variety
of optical communication components, such as: modulators, attenuators,
transmitters, pump laser modules, switches/optical cross connects, wavelength
selective switches, ROADMs, isolators, circulators, expanded-beam connector
assemblies, optical filter modules, DWDM, tunable filters, optical sensors,
optical signal processing, integrated/hybrid packaged modules, and other active
and passive components and devices.