January 25-27, 2022 --- SPIE Photonics West 2022 was held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. AFR showcased a wide variety of products this year including fiber laser components, lithium niobate modulators as well as LiDAR modules. The overseas debut of some new products and cutting-edge technologies attracts great attentions.

2 μm 100 W Fiber to Free-Space Optical Isolator

The product won the Silver Award at the 2021 Laser Focus World Innovators Awards Program. Its performance and reliability are guaranteed by AFR's proprietary design and manufacturing process that suppress unwanted absorption in this wavelength range.

ClearCut 2 μm 200 W Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG)

The ClearCut 2 μm 200 W Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) is an ultra-low insertion loss fiber bragg grating for high power fiber lasers. With AFR's ClearCut designing and special process, the device handles high power laser at around 2 μm. Custom configurations are available.

1060 nm/C-Band 10 GHz Phase Modulator

AFR’s broadband phase modulators combine high linearity, low driving voltage and small footprint, covering frequency range up to 10 GHz.

LiDAR Light Source

The product has excellent E-O efficiency in a compact package. Its pulse width and repetition rate are tunable at high pulse energy and high peak power. AFR also provides customized module services.

For more information about all products above, please contact sales@fiber-resources.com or visit our product center at www.fiber-resources.com.

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Sep 27, 2021 --- Advanced Fiber Resources (AFR) is delighted to announce that its 2 μm High Power Optical Isolators were honored with a Silver Award of the 2021 Laser Focus World Innovators Awards Program.

The product addresses the growing demand at the 2 μm region. Its performance and reliability are guaranteed by AFR's proprietary design and manufacturing process that suppress unwanted absorption in this wavelength range.

Benefited from extensive experience on the 1 μm high-power optical isolators, the polarization-independent 2 μm optical isolators offer excellent optical performance, high environmental stability, and reliability in a compact size and lightweight. AFR’s unique technology and design enable its power handling of 100 W for the fiber to free-space isolator and 50 W for the in-line version, which to our knowledge are the highest levels in the market. These fiber isolators are ideal choices for both fiber oscillators and fiber lasers of the MOPA architecture.

About 2021 Laser Focus World Innovators Awards Program

The Laser Focus World Innovation Awards celebrates the most innovative applications of photonics, optoelectronics and precision optics products and systems. Awards are presented to organizations that demonstrate excellence in the use of a product, system or application.

December 8, 2020 --- AFR was pleased to announce the successful closing of its Private Investment in Public Company(PIPE) process. A total amount of 709,999,981.08 Yuan RMB was fully subscribed by two investors, Zhuhai Huafa Industrial Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. and Changsha Shengnong Private Equity Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership). As a result, Zhuhai Huafa Industrial Investment and Changsha Shengnong will each hold 16,175,071 and 713,606 newly issued AFR shares, respectively.

As previously announced, such new funds would enhance AFR’s capabilities in developing and commercializing next-generation thin-film based lithium niobate modulators to address a wide range of telecom, data center interconnect, sensing and industrial applications.

Disclaimer: This is not intended as a verbatim English translation of AFR’s public announcement in Chinese. For the accurate interpretation of AFR’s Chinese announcement, please refer to the original Chinese version.

Shenzhen, China, Sep 9-11, 2020 --- AFR and its subsidiary Vlink showed up at the 22^nd CIOE (China International Optoelectronic Exposition), the world's largest and most influential optoelectronics exhibition, along with our products: Lithium Niobate Modulators, FAUs, PM & High Power Components, and FTA (Fiber Tail Assembly) Products.

Lithium Niobate Modulators

As the practitioner of the localization of high-end optical communication chips and devices, AFR's lithium niobate modulator products have been attracting the attention of optical communication industry. The key exhibition of the three lithium niobate modulators triggered hot discussion, attracted CCTV and other mainstream media to report.

Coherent Modulator 400/600G PM-QMZ

AFR Coherent Modulator 400/600Gb/s PM-QMZ is a high electro-optic bandwidth polarization multiplexed quad parallel Mach-Zehnder (PM-QMZ) that explicitly designed to enable 400GE and beyond speeds on a single wavelength or carrier. It can be applied to the transmission of ultra-high speed and ultra-distance coherent communication.

20/40 GHz Intensity Modulator (AM20, AM40)

AFR Broadband Analog Intensity Modulators combine high linearity with low driving voltage and small footprint, covering all the frequency range from 20 GHz to beyond 40 GHz (AM20: 20-30 GHz; AM40: > 30 GHz). The increasing demand to shift the transmission frequency in microwave fiber optic links towards higher frequency finds in AFR analog modulators the most advanced and suitable answer. The experience and know-how of AFR engineers is available to customize our products to the customer’s specific requirements.

High Bandwidth Zero-Chirp Modulator (F10)

AFR High Bandwidth Zero-Chirp Modulators are based on the Mach-Zehner Interferometer (MZI) architecture. The F10-0 is a Zero-Chirped, X-Cut single drive modulator designed for high bit rate advanced metro to long haul communication systems that requires the superior performance of X-Cut lithium niobate.

You Imagine, We Design

In addition to Lithium Niobate Modulators, AFR also showcased PM & high power products and FTA products. As an excellent one-stop fiber assembly service provider, AFR supports customization based on customer’s need.

With 20 years of industrial experience of PM & high power products, AFR has made full use of its technological advantages in the optical laser field and further extended its achievements into the optical communication field. AFR’s products for communication can reach the average power of 20 W. AFR's PM components offer excellent optical performance with high extinction ratio and low insertion loss. AFR also provides one-stop fiber assembly services, including fiber metallization, fiber feedthrough, lensed fiber, and more. AFR’s sputtering technology also takes the lead in the industry.

In the future, AFR will continue to invest in optical communication field, producing diverse and highly competitive products, providing customers with qualified and reliable services.

AFR is undergoing a Private Investment in Public Company (PIPE) process to raise funds for R&D, lithium niobate high-speed modulator chip industrialization and additional working capital by an amount not exceeding 710 million RMB. Encouraged by the future customer needs and technology trends in the optical communications industry, AFR is committed to expanding the existing product offerings and research field, as showcased in the recent addition of lithium niobate optical modulators for coherent 400G/600G, coherent 100G/200G, single drive 10G and analog 20/40G applications. After the PIPE process is completed, AFR plans to reach the annual capacity of lithium niobate modulators up to 80,000 units.

AFR plans to maximize the market opportunities and technical capabilities of the lithium niobate series high-speed optical modulators in the fields of communications and sensing. With the advantages in technology development, quality control, cost control, market development and more, AFR is poised to lead in the telecom grade lithium niobate high-speed optical modulator chips and modules. Meanwhile, AFR is building a professional R&D team for developing the next-generation thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform, in an effort to further enhance AFR’s capabilities and market positions in telecom and industrial applications.

Disclaimer: This is not intended as a verbatim English translation of AFR’s public announcement in Chinese. For the accurate interpretation of AFR’s Chinese announcement, please refer to the original Chinese version.

May 4, 2020 --- The wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Fiber Resources in Italy Milan AFR (AFRML) is fully resumed to work after several months of suspension. As the spread of the epidemic is gradually slowing down in Italy, AFRML is planning to restart production with strict epidemic control.

To prevent the spread of COVID-19, AFRML has set up a special committee based on the recommendation of official guidelines. The goal of the committee is to strictly monitor the health safety during the restart process and to fulfill the requirement of any relevant parties. The company strictly complies with the epidemic prevention regulation created by the local government and will take every possible measurement to ensure employee’s health safety as well as public sanitation.

AFRML owns a high-speed lithium niobate modulator and analog modulator product line located in San Donato, Italy. The product line, which started at Pirelli Research Laboratory near Milan, has a strong technical and production team and has been dedicated to the research and development of the most advanced optical modulator products, with broad market opportunities in communications and sensing industry. Lithium niobate modulator is widely used in modern optical communication system and is the core component to realize electro-optical conversion. With the introduction of "new infrastructure" 5G infrastructure, the demand for such products is increasing.

With fully resumption of production, the company will restore normal capacity of the lithium niobate modulator product line, solving the current supply shortage. In the future, AFRML will also expand the production scale and enrich the product line by utilizing its competitive advantages of technology development, quality control, market development and other aspects.