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Specialty Optical Fibers Redefine the "X" in FTTX

New Book Tells What's "Special" About Specialty Optical Fibers

New Cleave Tool Service Center Opens in China

Major Markets Get Their Own Brochures . . . In a new brochure, speaking to the medical industry, customers can see we have a wide variety of biocompatible and sterilizable products as single-use disposables and durable multiple-use probes.
New Medical Brochure >>

For years, industrial customers have relied on OFS’s 200 µm HCS® optical fiber cables to transmit their data from the factory floor to their programmable logic controllers. See the new possibilities with our brochure, Solutions for Industry: Industrial Capabilities >>

  and MORE >>


Introducing the Latest Line of Optical Fibers for Medical Applications: HCXtreme™ Fibers
HCXtreme fibers are optimized to enhance performance in laser power delivery under tight bend. HCXtreme >>


HCS® Optical Fiber
family now includes the popular 62.5 μm
(core) size
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CLEO 2008
San Jose McEnery Convention Center
San Jose, CA, USA
Conference: May 4-9
Exhibition: May 6-8
Booth: T1905
www.CLEOconference.org >>

MD&M East 2008
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
New York, NY, USA
Conference: June 3-5
Exhibition: June 2-5
See us with Furukawa Electric, Booth: 2247
www.DeviceLink.com >>

OFC NFOEC 2008
San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, CA, USA
Conference: February 24-28
Exhibition: February 26-28
Booth: 1835
www.OFCnfoec.org >>

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2008 Photonics Buyers Guide >>

About Specialty Photonics Division

OFS Specialty Photonics Division is the industry leader in optical fiber design or modification for highly customized applications. It develops focused fiber solutions – the right fibers, cables, and other specialty optical fiber products – to meet the needs of established and growing industries.

OFS Specialty Photonics supplies advanced optical fibers, including specialty multimode, specialty single-mode, rare-earth doped, polarization-maintaining and other nonstandard fibers. It also manufactures specialty cables and connectors, and other specialty products, such as high-power laser components.

Products
Optical fiber.
OFS Specialty Photonics offers a broad range of standard and custom specialty optical fibers. Specialty multimode fibers include HCS® and PYROCOAT® brand technologies. Also, specialty ClearLite® single-mode fibers, some of which incorporate our hermetic carbon coating expertise, TruePhase® polarization maintaining fibers, Erbium-doped fibers, and cladding pumped and large mode area fibers doped with various rare earth elements, such as Erbium, Ytterbium and Erbium/Ytterbium.

Cable. Specialty cables, such as avionic and military cables, and indoor and outdoor industrial HCS cables are manufactured here. These cables combine specialty optical fiber with cabling constructions that make installation or deployment easier and/or protect the fibers for long-term use in harsh environments.

Specialty products. OFS is a leader in high-power laser products, such as power combiners, cladding pumped and large mode area (LMA) fibers, cladding pumped fiber gain modules and cladding pumped fiber lasers (CPFLs).

We offer dispersion slope compensating modules (DSCM) and Dispersion Compensating Raman Amplifiers (DCRA) to meet unique customer specifications.

Other specialty products include connectorized assemblies, connectors, fiber Bragg gratings, termination kits and metallized pigtails.

Markets
OFS Specialty Photonics is organized to meet specific industry needs and customer challenges. Major markets include telecommunications, industrial, military and aerospace, transportation, medical and geophysical. We also specialize in fibers for cross-industry applications, such as navigation, high-power delivery and sensing.

OFS has been an approved supplier to the U.S. Military since 1987 (formerly as Ensign-Bickford Optics Co., SpecTran Specialty Optics Co., and Lucent Specialty Fiber Technologies). Our cage code is 0MZN3.

As part of a total commitment to quality and continuous improvement, OFS proudly maintains ISO 9001-2000 certification. Click here to view ISO certifications.

OFS Specialty Photonics is supported by OFS Laboratories, a world-class center of excellence for optical innovation. Spun out of Bell Labs, this heritage of pioneering technical advances has helped define the course of optical communications. Today the focus of OFS Laboratories is three-pronged: optical fiber research, photonic devices research and systems research.

  100 Years of Optical Innovation

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