OFS is a world-leading designer, manufacturer and provider of optical fiber, fiber optic cable, connectivity, fiber-to-the-subscriber (FTTX) and specialty photonics products.
Designed for inflight entertainment, internet access, networking and display systems used in commercial aircraft. A 1.8 mm ruggedized single jacket cable design and premium62....
Photonics advances in 2020 include commercial hollow-core fiber, deep learning for numerous purposes, and advanced ultrafast lasers for materials processing.
Hollow-core photonic-bandgap fiber delivers a 1.5 μs/km latency improvement compared to conventional glass-core fiber—a boon for the high-frequency trader market.
(Courtesy of the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton)
Sterilization of components is a critical step in the manufacture of biomedical devices. As demonstrated by a new study of sterilization techniques on various types of optical...
Hollow-core fibers designed via the "perturbed resonance for improved single modedness" (PRISM) approach rapidly attenuate higher-order modes while allowing the fundamental mode...
In the push to scale fiber lasers and amplifiers to higher and higher average powers and pulse energies, one of the routes to decreasing the nonlinearities that typically limit...
Somerset, NJ--Researchers at OFS Laboratories have developed a sub-melting-point fabrication technique to modify the diameter of conventional optical fiber, creating high Q (quality...
Scientists at OFS Denmark (Brøndby, Denmark) and OFS Labs (Somerset, NJ) have developed a dispersion-compensating optical fiber with a factor of 5.0 improvement in figure of merit...
Suitable as a signal or local light source, a narrow-linewidth, full-band tunable laser for 100 Gbit/s digital coherent transmission provides an output higher than 40 mW in the...
Two optics component suppliers--Syntec Optics (Pavilion, NY) and OFS, Specialty Photonics Division (Avon, CT)--report ISO certification compliance achievements, which reinforce...
OFS, Specialty Photonics Division, says its Avon, CT facility has achieved certification to the international management system standard ISO 13485 The facility invested in this...
The Specialty Photonics Division of OFS (Avon, CT) has something in common with coatings and laser-mirror developer Laseroptik (Garbsen, Germany): both are celebrating 25 years...
Avon, CT--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...
Few-moded fibers in which a single higher-order mode is excited offer large mode areas, high bend tolerance, and the potential for dispersion tailoring.
Somerset, NJ--Researchers at OFS Laboratories have developed mode transformation technology that enables the use of high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers without many of the ...
ith a new two-year Advanced Technology Program (ATP) award in its pocket, OFS Laboratories is hoping to achieve the breakthroughs in optical fiber design that will enable the ...
