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Aberdeen, Scotland — September 8, 2009 —
Release of GeoSil™ Pure Silica Core Optical Fibers
OFS, Specialty Photonics Division, today announces release of GeoSil™ Pure Silica Core Optical Fibers for Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS).
GeoSil Pure Core Fiber >>

Avon, CT — May 8, 2009 —
Avon Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
The Specialty Photonics Division of OFS, A Furukawa Company, in Avon, Connecticut, today announces the commencement of its 25th year in business >>

Broendby, Denmark, January 27, 2009 —
FemtoComp Modules Now Available for .8, 1, and 1.55 µm Wavelength Ranges and in a Polarization-Maintaining Version
OFS today announced the latest addition to its pioneering line of dispersion control technologies for ultra-short pulse lasers—FemtoComp™ Modules >>

Norcross, Georgia, Business Wire, June 17, 2008 -
DR. TIMOTHY MURRAY NAMED CEO OF OFS
OFS today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Timothy Murray, 56, as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, effective June 20, 2008. Dr. Timothy Murray, CEO >>

Norcross, Georgia, June 16, 2008 -
OFS HONORED BY AT&T AS OUTSTANDING SUPPLIER
Commitment to excellence over the past year has earned OFS recognition as an outstanding supplier to affiliates of AT&T Inc.. OFS, Outstanding Supplier >>

August 15, 2007 - PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUIT AGAINST FIBERCORE
SETTLES FAVORABLY FOR OFS
Norcross, GA. - Furukawa Electric North America, Inc. ("FENA"), and its wholly-owned subsidiary OFS Fitel LLC, ("OFS"), a designer, manufacturer, and supplier of leading-edge fiber-optic products, announced today that the patent-infringement lawsuit against FiberCore, pending in the Western District of North Carolina, settled on terms that were extremely favorable to FENA. Patent Infringement >>

June 18, 2007 - OFS EXPLORES NEW APPLICATIONS FOR HIGHER-ORDER MODE
FIBER LASER TECHNOLOGY
Avon, Conn. - OFS Specialty Photonics is inviting collaborators to develop new applications that are based on two breakthroughs from its laboratories in higher-order mode (HOM) technology. HOM-ULMA™ >>

March 27, 2007 - OFS EXTENDS REACH AND FLEXIBILITY WITH NEW
SPECIALTY PHOTONICS SOLUTIONS
OFC/NFOEC 2007, Booth 1711, Anaheim, CA. -
DSCM Product Line and AirClad Gain Block >>

February 7, 2007 - OFS, NUFERN, AND FURUKAWA ELECTRIC COMPANY NORTH AMERICA
SETTLE PATENT LITIGATION
Avon, Conn. - OFS Fitel LLC, Furukawa Electric Company of North America, Inc. ("FENA") and Nufern have amicably settled patent litigation >>

January 23, 2007 - NEW CONNECTORIZED CABLE SOLUTION
FOR HARSH INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS
Avon, Conn. - OFS Specialty Photonics Division has introduced a new cable designed for factory automation. Factory5^™ Cable >>

January 23, 2007 - NEW FIBER COATING TECHNOLOGY WITHSTANDS
HIGH POWER, TIGHT BENDS
Avon, Conn. - OFS Specialty Photonics Division has introduced optical fibers with the new hard clad silica (HCS^®) fiber coating that can better withstand severe bends during power.

January 23, 2007 - HIGH-EFFICIENCY FIBERS AND GAIN MODULES
FOR HIGH-POWER APPLICATIONS
Avon, Conn. - OFS Specialty Photonics has introduced four new premium erbium/ytterbium double clad fibers for high-power amplifiers and lasers. These new fibers, as well as gain modules >>

January 23, 2007 - PHOTONICS WEST MEDIA ADVISORY: OFS PRESENTATIONS
Avon, Conn. - Scientists from OFS Specialty Photonics Division and OFS Laboratories will offer the following presentations at Photonics West: >>

January 2007 - OFS makes the trade press.
Manufacturing Automation magazine publishes an article by OFS:
PAPERMAKING PUTS OPTICAL FIBRE TO THE TEST
The thought ran through Frank Haran's mind more than once - "We're breaking a whole lot of rules." Haran, a sensor physicist with Honeywell's process solutions business in Vancouver, B.C., wanted to use optical fibre sensor technology in one of industry's most demanding environments: papermaking.

See the full article in the January/February 2007 issue of Manufacturing Automation magazine or click here to view the article online.

May 12, 2006 - OFS NAMES MANAGER FOR INDUSTRIAL AND TRANSPORTATION MARKETS
Avon, Conn. - OFS Specialty Photonics Division has announced the appointment of Michael Conroy as Market Manager for Industrial and Transportation. He will concentrate on providing focused fiber solutions to customers in these markets.
Full Press Release >>

March 20, 2006 - DIGIOVANNI IS PRESENTED AS OPTICAL SOCIETY FELLOW
Avon, Conn. - David J. DiGiovanni, President of OFS Laboratories, Somerset, NJ., has been presented as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. According to a statement from the OSA, Dr. DiGiovanni was honored for "Extensive contributions and leadership in the fabrication and application of fiber amplifier and lasers." Full Press Release >>

March 17, 2006 - SEE DAVID DIGIOVANNI PRESENTING AT FIBERFEST MID-ATLANTIC
Norcross, GA. - David J. DiGiovanni, President of OFS Laboratories, will be a guest speaker at FiberFest Mid-Atlantic, presenting on the topic of Fiber Lasers. The symposium will take place May 8, 2006, Marriott, Somerset, NJ, 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM.

March 6, 2006 - OFS ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF KATSUHIKO MUROTA
AS ITS CEO & CHAIRMAN
Norcross, GA. - OFS, designer, manufacturer, and supplier of leading edge fiber optic products, announced the appointment of Katsuhiko (Jack) Murota to the position of CEO & Chaiman of OFS. Full Press Release >>

March 6, 2006 - OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS PLAY KEY ROLE IN HOMEAND SECURITY
OFC Conference, Anaheim, CA, Booth 1513 - Enhanced homeland security will increasingly be supported by automated sensors that provide broader coverage and greater accuracy compared to existing monitoring methods. Full Press Release >>

August 11, 2005 - FURUKAWA ELECTRIC NORTH AMERICA AND OFS FITEL LLC FILE PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUIT AGAINST NUFERN, INC.
Norcross, GA. - Furukawa Electric North America, and it’s wholly-owned subsidiary OFS Fitel LLC, designer, manufacturer, and supplier of leading edge fiber optic products, announced today that they have commenced federal litigation against Nufern, Inc. (Nufern) alleging that the Connecticut-based company infringes at least ten (10) U.S. patents . . . Full Press Release >>

June 13, 2005 - OFS FILES PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUIT AGAINST YANGTZE
OPTICAL FIBRE COMPANY
Norcross, GA. - Furukawa Electric North America and it’s wholly-owned subsidiary OFS Fitel LLC (collectively “OFS”), designer, manufacturer, and supplier of leading edge fiber optic products, announced today that it has commenced federal litigation against Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company Ltd. (YOFC) alleging that the China-based company infringes at least four (4) U.S. patents related to single-mode and multi-mode optical fiber and processes for making optical fiber. Full Press Release >>

OFS SPECIALTY PHOTONICS DIVISION ANNOUNCES TWO NEW EXECUTIVE HIRES
OFS, Specialty Photonics Division, designer, manufacturer, and supplier of leading edge fiber optic products, announces the addition of John Earnhardt as Senior Sales Manager and John Hansson as Business Development Manager. Full Press Release >>

March 8, 2005 - OFS EXPANDS ITS OFFERINGS TO INCLUDE FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS
OFC Conference, Anaheim, CA, Booth 2413 - OFS Specialty Photonics Division today announced the commercial availability of Fiber Bragg Gratings as a stand-alone product. Previously, the company has applied their gratings capabilities only to OFS gratings-based devices. Full Press Release >>

January 24, 2005 - OFS LICENSES NKT FOR PATENTS RELATED TO AIR-CLAD MICROSTRUCTURED FIBER AND OPTICAL FIBER GRATING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Avon, CT. - OFS, designer, manufacturer, and supplier of leading edge fiber optic products, announced today that it has licensed its air-clad microstructured fiber patents and its broad family of fundamental optical fiber grating manufacturing patents to NKT subsidiary Koheras A/S to use. Koheras A/S joins the growing family of OFS licensees for this basic technology. Full Press Release >>

January 24, 2005 - OFS LICENSES VERRILLON FOR USE OF MODIFIED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESS
Avon, CT. - OFS, designer, manufacturer, and supplier of leading edge fiber optic products, announced today that it has licensed Verrillon, Inc. to a patent for certain optical fibers drawn from a preform having a core rod made by a modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) process. Full Press Release >>

September 23, 2004 - OFS LABORATORIES RECEIVES $885k FUNDING FROM THE NRL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RADIATION HARD FIBERS TO BE USED IN FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPES
Murray Hill, NJ. – The US Naval Research Laboratories has agreed to fund OFS Laboratories, for the development of fibers to be used in Fiber Optic Gyroscopes (FOG) that will experience significant ionizing radiation. The three-year program will focus on development of both polarization maintaining (PM) sensor coil fiber and PM erbium fibers plus development of post processing techniques and mathematical models to allow predicted performance in radiation environments. Full Press Release >>

September 28, 2004 - OFS LABORATORIES RECEIVES ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM FUNDING TO COMMERCIALIZE REVOLUTIONARY HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Murray Hill, NJ. - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through its Advanced Technology Program (ATP), has agreed to provide up to $2 million to OFS Laboratories to support the development of new processes for manufacturing high power fiber lasers in their state-of-the-art laboratories and manufacturing facilities in Murray Hill and Somerset, New Jersey. Fiber lasers allow the creation. . . Full Press Release >>

LATEST PATENT INFORMATION

Letter to OFS Erbium Customers - With the recent increase in the number of companies making and selling optical fiber and specialty optical fiber over the last few years, we wanted to take a moment to assure you that the OFS erbium-doped fiber market - in the United States, China, and elsewhere - is protected by a substantial portfolio of patents . . . Latest Erbium-Doped Fiber Patent >>

PREVIOUS APPEARANCES AND PUBLICATIONS

May, 2007 - MAY 2007 ISSUE OF LASER FOCUS WORLD
Somerset, NJ. - OFS Scientist, Siddarth Ramachandran, writes about his latest research on fibers for fiber lasers in his article entitled: "Higher-order mode propogation may enable power scaling". Higher-order mode >>

October 23, 2006 - FIBER SUPPRESSES STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING
Somerset, NJ. - See the article in the October issue of Photonics Spectra or click here for the online version of the article. Suppressed Raman Scattering >>

Robust Light Propogated in Ultralarge-Mode-Area Fibers - See the article in the September issue of Photonics Spectra or click here for an article abstract. Ultra LMA Fibers >>

May 2006 - OFS Technology Advances High-Power Fiber Lasers (Laser Focus World and Photonics Online) Researchers at OFS Laboratories have developed mode transformation technology that enables the use of high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers without many of the problems associated with free-space optics.
See OFS Laboratories in Laser Focus World >>
See OFS Laboratories in Photonics Online >>

May 2006 - Calculations Reveal Limit of Microfiber Thinness (Laser Focus World) When the diameter of a microfiber is smaller than the wavelength of light being transmitted through it, the presence of the evanescent field projecting outside the fiber allows such tapered fibers to be used for optical sensing, atom trapping, and other applications. OFS Laboratories >>

November 6-10, 2005 - At the Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference (APOC 2005) - Shanghai, China, Dr. Jie Lie will make a presentation on A Method for Developing Optimized Recipe for Fusion Splicing Erbium Doped Fiber. This paper was co-authored by Honggu Jiang, Richard Heinemann, William Smith, Timothy McMahon, and Tomoko Ohtsuki. To learn more about the conference, click here.

September 21, 2005 - At the Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Conference (AVFOP 2005) - Minneapolis, Minnesota, John Pacini will make a presentation on Extended Temperature Range FlightGuide™ Optical Fiber Cable. OFS Specialty Photonics Division supplies FlightGuide optical fiber cable for military and commercial aircraft. Results from an initial evaluation of a FlightGuide™ optical cable with an extended service temperature range will be presented. To learn more about the conference, click here.

November 29, 2004 - At the SPIE Workshop on Photonics in the Automobile - Switzerland, Eric A. Lindholm will present a poster session on Strength and Reliability of Optical Fibers for Automotive Communication Networks. Click here to see the posters. To order advance proceedings, please go to www.spie.org/events/epa

November 10, 2004 - At the APOC 2004 in Beijing, China, Wednesday - Dr. Jie Li, co-author of a paper by Honggu (Nick) Jiang, will present the paper entitled, "A Low Loss Specialty Fiber Designed for 980/1600 WDM Coupler Used in the L-Band EDFA. Please click here to see the Low Loss Fiber abstract.

September, 2004 - Fiber-Based Sensors Target Geophysical Applications, an article by Cathy Ciardiello in the September, 2004 issue of Photonics Spectra. Please click here to see the Fiber-Based Sensors abstract.

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