Warren, NJ Nov 2007 - DuToit is invited speaker on advances in plastic optical fibers at the International Wire and Cable Symposium (IWCS 2007 Nov 10-13th). Chromis will also have their high speed, low loss, perfluorinated optical fibers on display during the IWCS Exhibition.
 

TRENTON, N.J. (Oct 2007) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) has closed a $1-million investment through the Edison Innovation Fund to assist in the growth of Chromis Fiberoptics, Inc.
The Edison Innovation Fund, a key element of Governor Jon S. Corzine’s Economic Growth Strategy, was created to support technology companies throughout their discovery, development and commercialization stages. (Full Article)
 

ECOC Oct 2007: - The University of Keil, Germany presents 40Gbps performance on Chromis’ perflorinated optical fibers at ECOC 2007. The feasibility of error free transmission over 50 meters of Chromis’ GI-POF shows high robustness towards bending influences and polarisation changes. In addition, the tolerable launching offset is found to be +/- 10 microns for the perfluorinated optical fibers which is significantly larger than that of glass multimode fibers. (Full Article)
 

Sept 2007.  In testing done by NAMSA, Chromis' perfluorinated optical fibers have passed biocompatibility tests to USP Class VI levels.   (Full Article)
 

Sept 2007: Vizionware demonstrates high definition TV link with Chromis’ prefluorinated fibers at CEDIA 2007. VizionWare, the Texas-based signal management and signal conditioning company and creator of the award-winning Hi-Wirez™ Active Digital HDMI Interconnects, announced today the release of the all new 1650LD Series Fiber Optic HDMI Interconnects. The Unique Single-Strand Design Offers Unparalleled Flexibility, Durability and Deep-Color Performance Over Distances up to 100 Meters. Chromis’ high bandwidth, low loss perfluorinated optical fibers provide the simplicity required to allow fiber optics to enter the HDTV (HDMI) consumer electronics market.
See Vizionware announcement at http://vizionware.com/press/0906a2007.php
 

Warren, NJ May 2007: Chromis Fiberoptics announces a global distribution agreement with Thorlabs of Newton, NJ. Thorlabs is a broad line, high end, optical catalog/distribution company. They offer the standard Chromis’ perfluorinated optical fiber and cable products on a global basis allowing optical designers access to this advanced plastic fiber technology. Thorlabs also offers all the associated hardware to aid designers in the evaluation, testing, and implementation of Chromis’ products.
 

March 29,2007.  In a presentation at OFC 2007, "40 Gbps links using plastic optical fibers", Georgia Institute of Technology reports independent research on Chromis GigaPOF® fibers supporting 40 Gigabits/second to 100 meters.   Also, the mode coupling phenomenon demonstrated in GigaPOF® allows relaxed launch and detect tolerances.  This offers a greatly simplified electro-optic interface with GigaPOF®.   (Full Article)
 

March 1, 2007.  Chromis hires Dana DuToit as Vice President of Sales and Marketing (Full Article)
 

September 11 - 14, 2006. Chromis at POF 2006 : Chromis Fiberoptics is invited to present its successful development and commercialization of GigaPOF®, Chromis’s next-generation plastic optical fiber product-line for high bandwidth data communication, in the 15th International Conference on Plastics Optics Fiber, Seoul, Korea.
 

June 2006. FibreSystems Europe in association with LIGHTWAVE Europe, “POF@10G: Full Speed Ahead” (Full article).
 

June 2006. Lightwave, “POF in international cabling standards” (Full article).
 

May 2006. Lightwave, “IEC standard for plastic optical fibers” (Full article).
 

March 9-10, 2006. Chromis at OFC 2006: Chromis with its partner companies demonstrated 10G GI-POF transmission during the OFC 2006 at Anaheim, CA. The demo was preceded by a press briefing on the 9th. Chromis CEO Whitney White discussed POF and its advantages in the briefing. The fiber and cables used in this demo were all Chromis GigaPOF® products (Press Release and Briefing Material).
 

July 7, 2005. Chromis Fiberoptics is invited to present its work on graded-index polymer optical fibers in the 10th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, Seoul, Korea. The title of the presentation is “High-Performance GI-POF Produced by Extrusion”.
 

April 2005. Chromis Fiberoptics is awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Grant by the US National Science Foundation (Award No. DMI-0512100). This award is made in the category of Manufacturing Innovation to extend Chromis’ extrusion manufacturing process for low attenuation graded-index polymer optical fibers to include ultra-high bandwidth fibers.
 

September 30, 2004. Chromis Fiberoptics is invited to present its high bandwidth GI-POF work in POF 2004, the largest international conference on plastic optical fibers and their applications. The paper is titled as “New results on the manufacturing of ultra-high bandwidth perfluorinated GI-POF by extrusion”.
 

June, 2004. Chromis Fiberoptics successfully completed its buy-out of OFS’s POF business including all the assets, manufacturing equipments, patents, and intellectual properties. All the core members of the R&D team will continue as part of Chromis.