OFS to Present Series of Technical Papers and Receive Best Presentation Award at IWCS Conference
OFS to Present Series of Technical Papers
and Receive Best Presentation Award at IWCS Conference
IWCS International Cable & Connectivity Symposium 2016, Providence, Rhode Island, October 3, 2016 - OFS, a leading designer, manufacturer, and supplier of innovative fiber optic products will present a series of eight technical papers and receive the prestigious Kitt-Kingsley Award for best presentation at IWCS located in the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
The dates, sessions and titles of papers being presented are as follows:
Monday, October 3rd
Kitts-Kingsley Award for Best Presentation
David Mazzarese, Ph.D.
OFS, Norcross, GA, USA
"Splice Loss Criteria for Outside Plant Cable"
Session 2: Special Applications
Acrylate-Based Specialty Optical Fiber Coatings
for Harsh Environments - A.A. Stolov, J.A. Wrubel, D.A.
Simoff and R.J. Lago, OFS, Connecticut, USA
Session 4: Fiber/ Cable Manufacturing and Reliability
New ITU-T Optical Fiber and Cable Reliability Supplement - D. Mazzarese, OFS, Georgia, USA
Tuesday, October 4th
Session 7: Fiber & Cable Measurements
Estimating Attenuation for Installed Singlemode Fiber Links Using Statistical Methods - D. Mazzarese, OFS, Georgia, USA
Cabling and Splicing Performance of an Ultra Low Loss, Optimized Effective Area Fiber for Terrestrial
Long Haul Applications - P. Weimann, R. Norris, B. Ward, D. Mazzarese, A. McCurdy and Y. Liang, OFS Fitel, LLC, Georgia, USA; P. Borel and B. Palsdottir, OFS Fitel, LLC, Brondby, Denmark
Splice Loss Rules and Results for Single-Mode Fibers Deployed in Terrestrial Long Haul Networks
- D. Mazzarese, T. Liang, J. Hartpence and B. Ward, OFS, Georgia, USA
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Session 10: Next Generation Special Fibers
High Speed Short Wavelength Division Multiplexing Transmission over Next Generation Wideband Multimode Optical Fiber - Y. Sun, K. Scott, A. McCurdy, J. Kamino, A. Swartz, R. Lingle, Jr. and D.S. Vaidya, OFS, Georgia, USA; R. Shubochkin and D. Braganza, OFS, Massachusetts, USA; M. Chow and J. Wynia, Dell, California, USA; T. Gray, W.J. Fan, K. Wade, D. Gazula, G. Landry and J. Tatum, Finisar Corp., Texas, USA; and S. Koehler, Finisar Corp., California, USA
Next Generation Wideband Multimode Fiber for High-Speed SWDM Datacom Links - R. Shubochkin, D.
Braganza and D. Mazzarese, OFS, Massachusetts, USA; Y. Sun, K. Balemarthy, R. Lingle, Jr., J. Kamino and D. Vaidya, OFS, Georgia, USA
Session 15: Codes & Standards
Optical Connectivity and Passive Components Standardization in the International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC) - D. Mazzarese and G. Sandels, OFS, Georgia, USA
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 photonics products. We provide
reliable, cost-effective solutions for a broad range of applications including telecommunications,
medicine, industrial automation, sensing, government, aerospace and defense. These products
help our customers meet the needs of consumers and businesses, both 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.
