JDS makes advanced fiber optic components.

The fiber component in her work is aluminum mesh, covered with gold leaf.

CML is frequently used in interfaces to fiber optic components.

JDS Uniphase, the supplier of fiber optic components, said that it would cut 3,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its staff.

They have used the two to build the leading supplier of fiber optic components, and in the process pre-empted everyone else from doing what they have accomplished.

Keck acquired 36 U.S. patents and authored more than 150 papers in the areas of optical fibers and fiber components.

At the moment, Mr. Castro is bullish on the slumping Lucent, because of the planned spinoff of its fiber component and integrated circuit businesses.

The unit makes communications chips and fiber optic components like lasers.

At 3.4 percent of assets, Cisco is the fund's second-largest holding, after JDS Uniphase, a maker of fiber optic components.

JDS Uniphase, a manufacturer of fiber optic components and modules, was another big winner.