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New Booth Unveiled at Photonics West 2008

OFS, Specialty Photonics Division, unveiled its brand new traveling trade show booth at Photonics West 2008 in San Jose, California. The centerpiece was a man-high, backlit panel featuring OFS’s tagline for 2008. A continuous-loop presentation also showed new customers and reminded established ones about the full range of all OFS has to offer from specialty optical fibers to the cables, modules, and high-power products that incorporate them.

Three OFS locations united in one 10 x 20 space at the show, highlighting unique offerings from Denmark, Japan, and the USA. The North American unit of OFS’s parent, Furukawa Electric, showcased the Blue Laser. Our Denmark facility brought a number of products to show, from the Air Clad Gain Block to the FemtoComp Module. Denmark also showed Rare OFS Image for 2008Earth Doped fibers. The Specialty Photonics Division from Avon arrived with a new Medical Brochure, highlighting the various fiber, cable, and assembly offerings for that unique and growing industry. Customers were treated to demonstrations of OFS’s brainchild invention—crimp & cleave connectorization technology—which has now advanced even beyond the standard 200 and 400 µm sizes to 62.5 µm terminations on HCS® optical fibers, giving customers the versatile option of a rugged, drop-in replacement for 62.5 µm commodity fibers.

Major Markets Get Their Own Brochures
 OFS has supplied fibers, cables, and connectorized assemblies to the medical and industrial markets for over 20 years now. Our loyal customers knew what to order, and our knowledgeable Technical Sales Engineers walked newer customers through the various options, quizzing them until we knew exactly what they needed and made it for them.
New Major Market Brochures >>

Meet a Scientist

Dr. Lars Gruner-Nielsen

Dr. Lars Grüner-Nielsen
If you trace the development of a new specialty optical fiber, or fiber application, you will find it is touched by many people along its journey from research at OFS Laboratories to development and ultimately to a new commercial application. As a project manager in the Incubation Center at OFS Denmark, Lars Grüner-Nielsen plays a vital role in introducing new products to the market. Femtosecond Fiber Lasers >>

Welcome Back Lastek!
 We are pleased to announce that we’ve renewed our relationship with Lastek Pty. Ltd. for distribution of OFS products in Australia and New Zealand. Lastek >>

 


Fiber News

Specialty Optical Fibers Redefine the "X" in FTTX
The term FTTX, shorthand for fiber to a particular destination like to the desk or to the home, is taking on new meaning as optical fiber is found in many new and challenging places. In other words, the "X" in FTTX means even more.
Specialty Optical Fiber
in FTTX >>

Distributor Conference
The OFS Distributor conference was held March 3-4, locally at the Simsbury 1820 House for our representatives from China, Germany, France, Italy, Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Timing was ideal because everyone was already away from their businesses and traveling for the OFC Conference in San Diego.
Distributor Conference >>

New Book Tells What's "Special" About Specialty Optical Fibers
We may have become accustomed to thinking of optical fibers exclusively as a transmission medium in telecommunications.

But, although fiber optics have made their mark in all sorts of telecommunications components and devices—as a new book entitled, Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook, edited by Alexis Mendez, and T. Morse, makes very clear—there are now many other varieties of non-telecom optical fibers, and they are used in a myriad of applications.
Specialty Optical Fibers
Handbook >>

New Cleave Tool Service Center Opens in China
OFS’s joint venture in China, OFS Technology (Hangzhou) Ltd., is now prepared to accept Crimp & Cleave Tools for repair and calibration. This will make it faster and easier for our customers in China to keep their termination kits in top shape, saving the import/export step, and allowing them to deal with trained technicians in their own language.
Crimp & Cleave Tool Repair >>

Global Trade

Working Together
The latest issue of SPIN, our newsletter on Global Trade, stresses the importance of understanding the link between the end uses of our products and U.S. export regulations.
Committment to Compliance >>
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