Stocker & Yale Inks Deal With INO For Photosensitive Fibers

N/Athe recent trend of photonics companies branching out into the fiber optic telecom industry, <%=company%> (Salem, NH) has signed an exclusive agreement with Canadian photonics research institute INO (Quebec, Canada) for the manufacture and sale of photosensitive optical fibers, which will include radiation mode suppression (RMS) fiber. "This is the first step in our commitment to produce specialty telecom fibers such as RMS photosensitive fibers for fiber Bragg gratings/DWDMs, germanium-doped photosensitive fibers, erbium-doped fibers for erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), and other types of fiber," said Stocker & Yale chairman and CEO Mark Blodgett. The company acquired optical fiber fabrication equipment in late 1999.

Under the terms of the agreement, Stocker & Yale will produce RMS fiber in its Salem, NH facility. RMS fiber has applications in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) applications.

Edited by Kristin Lewotsky