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Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets a range of fiber optic components and integrated modules incorporating these components. The company offers a range of products, including interconnect devices that are used to connect optical fibers and components; couplers and splitters that are used to divide and combine optical power; and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) devices that separate and combine multiple specific wavelengths. Products The company’s lines of optical products support the needs of optical network systems applications. Its connectivity product family provides a line of optical interconnect devices, couplers and splitters, planar lightwave circuits, and related optical products, as well as customized integrated modules incorporating these devices. Its optical passive products include wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) coarse wavelength division multiplexer (CWDM) and DWDM components, and modules that utilize thin film filter technologies to separate optical signals, variable attenuators, optical switches, and other optical devices utilizing micro optic lensing technology, including integrated electro-optical modules incorporating these products. Connectivity Products The company’s connectivity platform provides fundamental component support for the applications, as well as standard and custom value added integrated solutions. Connectivity Modules: The company designs and packages its various components to provide integrated connectivity modules for its customers. Its integrated modules are designed to reduce its customers’ system design requirements and ease implementation. Optical Connectors, Adapters, and Cable Assemblies: Optical connectors and adapters are precision devices that connect fibers together. The company offers a range of connection products that support a range of fiber and fiber cable types. The company provides its customers with custom cable assemblies to serve in conjunction with its optical interconnection solutions at all interface points in the optical communications network. Fused and Planar Fiber Optical Splitters, and Couplers: Fused and planar fiber optical splitters and couplers are branching devices that are used to split optical power from a single fiber, or set of fibers, into a different set of fibers. They are used to distribute optical signals to multiple locations for processing. The company’s optical splitters and couplers reduce insertion loss, or the power loss incurred when inserting components into an optical path, and deliver uniform optical wavelength splitting. Optical Tap Couplers and Ultra Low Polarization Dependent Loss Tap Couplers: Optical tap couplers are fused fiber branching devices that split off a portion of light to allow for optical monitoring and feedback. These devices are used in fiber amplifier power control. They are also utilized in transmission equipment for performance monitoring and control. The company’s ultra low polarization dependent loss devices offer low levels of sensitivity to polarization, which is a characteristic of light that could cause a reduction in the fidelity of optical signals. These devices enable monitoring and management of optical networks. Amplifier WDM Couplers: Amplifier WDM couplers are used with specialized fibers to combine or separate specific wavelengths of light associated with standard telecommunications optical amplifier requirements. Optical Fixed Attenuators: Optical fixed attenuators diminish the optical power within a given optical path without interference or reduction in optical signal quality. Fused Fiber WDM Couplers: Fused fiber WDM couplers are used to combine and separate optical signals transmitted on different wavelengths. Fused fiber WDM couplers might also be used to add additional functionality to the network, such as network status monitoring. Optical Passive Products The company’s filter-based products serve WDM and DWDM systems as core passive elements that direct and manage various optical signal channels. Its optical passive products devices serve various system OEM customers needs for current and next