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The FiberWire is a newsletter designed to keep you informed about new developments in specialty optical fiber and other products and systems offered by OFS Specialty Photonics. OFS Specialty Photonics Division is the industry leader in optical fiber design or modification for highly customized applications. It develops focused fiber solutions – the right fibers, cables, and other specialty fiber optic products – to meet the needs of established and growing industries. The FiberWire brings you new product information, real-life application stories, technical papers, and other features. Please see the latest issue, or browse through archived editions. Click here to subscribe to The FiberWire.

ABOUT SPECIALTY PHOTONICS DIVISION
OFS Specialty Photonics supplies advanced optical fibers, including specialty multimode, specialty single-mode, rare-earth doped, polarization-maintaining, and other nonstandard fibers. It also manufactures specialty cables and connectors, and other specialty products, such as high-power laser components.

MARKETS
OFS Specialty Photonics is organized to meet specific industry needs and customer challenges. Major markets include telecommunications, industrial, military and aerospace, transportation, and medical. We also specialize in fibers for cross-industry applications, such as navigation, high-power delivery, utilities, and sensing.

F16 OFS has been an approved supplier to the U.S. Military since 1987 (formerly as Ensign-Bickford Optics Co., SpecTran Specialty Optics Co., and Lucent Specialty Fiber Technologies). Our cage code is 0MZN3.

OFS Specialty Photonics is supported by OFS Laboratories, a world-class center of excellence for optical innovation. Spun out of Bell Labs, this heritage of pioneering technical advances has helped define the course of optical communications.oday the focus of OFS Labs is three-pronged: optical fiber research, photonic devices research and systems research.

Dr. David DiGiovanni, President of OFS Laboratories

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Products:
Optical fiber
OFS Specialty Photonics offers a broad range of standard and custom specialty optical fibers. Specialty multimode fibers include HCS^® and PYROCOAT^® brand technologies. Also, specialty ClearLite^® single-mode fibers, TruePhase^® polarization maintaining fibers, some of which incorporate our hermetic carbon coating expertise, Erbium-doped fibers, and cladding pumped and large mode area fibers doped with various rare earth elements, such as Erbium, Ytterbium and Erbium/Ytterbium.

Cable
OFS Specialty Photonics also manufactures specialty cables, such as avionic and military cables, and indoor and outdoor industrial HCS cables. These cables combine specialty optical fiber with cabling construction that make installation or deployment easier and/or protect the fibers for long-term use in harsh environments.

Specialty products
OFS is a leader in high-power laser products, such as power combiners, cladding pumped and large mode area (LMA) fibers, cladding pumped fiber gain modules, cladding pumped fiber amplifiers (CPFAs), and cladding pumped fiber lasers (CPFLs).

We offer dispersion slope compensating modules (DSCM) and Dispersion Compensating Raman Amplifiers (DCRA) to meet unique customer specifications.

Other specialty products include connectorized assemblies, connectors, fiber Bragg gratings, termination kits and metallized pigtails.