Innovation Through Light
OFS at the Forefront of Optical Fiber Technology
1880
Alexander Graham Bell invents the photophone
1900s
AT&T acquires the assets of American Bell. AT&T breakup. Lucent Technologies, a spin-off of Bell Labs and AT&T’s manufacturing operations, is created.
1970s
Awarded patents critical to single-mode optical fiber manufacture
Manufactured and sold first optical fiber and fiber cable
One of the earliest optical fiber manufacturers
HCS® (Hard-Clad Silica) Optical Fiber
1989
EDF (Erbium-Doped Fiber)
1995
LC Connector
1998
AllWave® Zero Water Peak Single-Mode Fiber
2001
Furukawa Electric Group acquires Lucent’s optical fiber business. OFS is created.
2003
Fortex™ DT Cable totally gel-free loose tube cable
2007
EZ-Bend® Optical Fiber bend insensitive solid-core fiber
HCXtreme® Optical Fiber for laser delivery in tight bends
2015
InvisiLight® MDU Solution
TeraWave™ ULL Optical Fiber for terrestrial long haul coherent systems
TrueM2™ Beam Combiner platform
2016
Winner of the 68th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award: “Pioneering Invention and Deployment of Fiber Optic Cable”
2017
AccuTube®+ Rollable Ribbon Cable
Double density OSP cable
2018
Awarded Journal of Lightwave Technology Best Paper Award by IEEE/OSA
honoring the most influential, highest-cited original paper published in
JLT in 2015 : “VCSEL-Based Interconnects for Current and Future Data Centers.”
2018
Opened company’s first fiber optic
cable factory in Africa located in
Tangier, Morocco
THE FUTURE
Visit us at www.ofsoptics.com as we continue to revolutionize optical technology.
