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
