PRESS RELEASES

PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUIT AGAINST FIBERCORE SETTLES FAVORABLY FOR OFS
Norcross, GA, August 15, 2007 - 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 >>

OFS EXPLORES NEW APPLICATIONS FOR HIGHER-ORDER MODE FIBER LASER TECHNOLOGY
Avon, Conn. (June 18, 2007) - 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™ >>

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

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

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

NEW FIBER COATING TECHNOLOGY WITHSTANDS HIGH POWER, TIGHT BENDS
Avon, Conn. (January 23, 2007) - 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.

HIGH-EFFICIENCY FIBERS AND GAIN MODULES FOR HIGH-POWER APPLICATIONS
Avon, Conn. (January 23, 2007) - 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 >>

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

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.

OFS NAMES MANAGER FOR INDUSTRIAL AND TRANSPORTATION MARKETS
Avon, Conn., May 12, 2006 - 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 >>

DIGIOVANNI IS PRESENTED AS OPTICAL SOCIETY FELLOW
Avon, Conn., March 20, 2006 - 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 >>

SEE DAVE DIGIOVANNI PRESENTING AT FIBERFEST MID-ATLANTIC
Norcross, GA, March 17, 2006 - 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.

OFS ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF KATSUHIKO MUROTA AS ITS CEO & CHAIRMAN
Norcross, GA, March 6, 2006 - 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 >>

OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS PLAY KEY ROLE IN HOMEAND SECURITY
OFC Conference, Anaheim, CA, Booth 1513, March 6, 2006 - 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 >>

FURUKAWA ELECTRIC NORTH AMERICA AND OFS FITEL LLC FILE PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUIT AGAINST NUFERN, INC.
Norcross, GA, August 11, 2005 - 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 >>

OFS FILES PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUIT AGAINST YANGTZE OPTICAL FIBRE COMPANY
Norcross, GA, June 13, 2005 - 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 >>

OFS EXPANDS ITS OFFERINGS TO INCLUDE FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS
OFC Conference, Anaheim, CA, Booth 2413, March 8, 2005 — 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 >>

OFS LICENSES NKT FOR PATENTS RELATED TO AIR-CLAD MICROSTRUCTURED FIBER AND OPTICAL FIBER GRATING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Avon, CT, January 24, 2005 - 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 >>

OFS LICENSES VERRILLON FOR USE OF MODIFIED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESS
Avon, CT, January 24, 2005 - 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 >>

OFS LABORATORIES RECEIVES $885k FUNDING FROM THE NRL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RADIATION HARD FIBERS TO BE USED IN FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPES
Murray Hill, NJ, September 23, 2004 – 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 >>

OFS LABORATORIES RECEIVES ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM FUNDING TO COMMERCIALIZE REVOLUTIONARY HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Murray Hill, NJ, September 28, 2004 - 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 ISSUE OF LASER FOCUS WORLD
Somerset, NJ., May, 2007 - 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 >>

FIBER SUPPRESSES STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING
Somerset, NJ., October 23, 2006 - 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 >>

OFS Technology Advances High-Power Fiber Lasers (Laser Focus World and Photonics Online), May, 2006. 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 >>

Calculations Reveal Limit of Microfiber Thinness (Laser Focus World), May, 2006. 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 >>

At the Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference (APOC 2005), November 6-10, 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.

At the Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Conference (AVFOP 2005), September 21, 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.

At the SPIE Workshop on Photonics in the Automobile, November 29, 2004, 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

At the APOC 2004 in Beijing, China, Wednesday, November 10, 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.

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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