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OFS Wins Journal of Lightwave Technology Best Paper AwardSAN DIEGO, March 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- OFC 2018, Booth 3339 -- OFS, a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative fiber optic network products will showcase continued technical and industry leadership in a series of events at the annual OFC/ NFOEC conference to be held in San Diego, California from March 11-15, 2018. In addition to multiple invited and contributed technical papers, OFS authors Dr. Kasyapa Balemarthy, Dr. Roman Shubochkin, Dr. Durgesh Vaidya and Dr. Man Yan have been awarded the Journal of Lightwave Technology Best Paper Award for "VCSEL-Based Interconnects for Current and Future Data Centers" by IEEE/OSA. Their paper was one of two winning papers for this year's JLT Best Paper Award, honoring the most influential, highest-cited original paper published in JLT in 2015. Additionally, Dr. Paul Westbrook of OFS Labs has been named an OSA Fellow for his outstanding innovation, technical and program leadership in photonic devices, particularly development and application of fiber Bragg grating technology for communications and sensing. The dates and titles of OFS presentations, technical contributions and industry events at this year's OFC are: Monday, 12 March 2018 | 13:30 – 16:30, Short Course This short course will discuss the basics of optical propagation and fiber design, as well as the many ways in which optical fibers can be adapted for a wide range of applications. We will review an array of current fiber technologies and consider the role and capabilities of materials, structures and waveguide design for both fiber and fiber-based photonic components. The focus will be two-fold: coverage of commercial fiber technology and demonstration of the many opportunities available with new and specialty optical fibers. In the former, we will touch on the manufacture, design and properties of optical fiber and utilization issues such as fusion splicing and cabling for conventional, commercial fiber. Discussion of novel and specialty fiber will include trends for next-generation, high bandwidth communications (designs for advanced modulation formats, space division multiplexing, advanced amplification) as well as the rapidly growing field of non-communications applications in high power fiber lasers, point and distributed optical sensing and hollow-core optical fiber. Wednesday, 14 March 2018 | 8:00 – 10AM Thursday, 15 March 2018 | 8:00 – 10:00AM, Panel About OFS OFS is a world-leading designer, manufacturer and provider of optical fiber, fiber optic cable, connectivity, fiber-to-the-subscriber (FTTx) and specialty fiber optic products. We put our development and manufacturing resources to work creating solutions for applications in such areas as telecommunications, medicine, industrial automation, sensing, aerospace, defense and energy. We provide reliable, cost-effective fiber optic solutions that help our customers meet the needs of consumers and businesses today and into the future. Headquartered in Norcross (near Atlanta) Georgia, U.S.A., OFS is a global provider with facilities in China, Denmark, Germany, Russia and the United States. OFS is part of Furukawa Electric Company, a multi-billion dollar leader in optical communications. Please visit www.ofsoptics.com.
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