Exhibition
A three-day exhibit will be held as part of the Workshop where companies can exhibit and demonstrate their latest specialty fiber technology innovations and products. The exhibit space will be located next to the coffee area for both WSOF and EOO events and adjacent to the auditorium area where the technical talks will be given, in order to ensure the maximum attendee traffic and interaction possible with the exhibitors. Since WSOF will be collocated with SPIE’s EOO Conference, we expect a larger overall attendance than a usual WSOF event with approximately 1,000 participants.
Both tabletops and booth stands are available with the distribution shown in the Prospectus. The WSOF2025 organizers welcome individuals, organizations and exhibitors to consider making contributions towards the organization of the event. We offer a variety of pre-defined sponsorship packages to suit all budgets, as shown in the Prospectus as well as contact of Dr. Alexis Mendez, Exhibit Chair & Coordinator; or we can gladly discuss any particular offerings.
Exhibition dates and times
| Tuesday 8 April | 10.00 – 17.00 |
| Wednesday 9 April | 10.00 – 17.00 |
| Thursday 10 April | 10.00 – 13.00 |
Rates & Sponsorships
| Space type | Fee |
| Tabletop | €1,650.00 |
| Stand shell (2mx3m) | €2,700.00 |
| Silver Sponsor | €3,500.00 |
| Gold Sponsor | €4,500.00 |
| Platinum Sponsor | €6,000.00 |
| Inclusion of company flyer/brochure into the conference bag | €750.00 |
| Name tag lanyards with company name & logo | €1,500.00 each |
| Coffee break service | €2,000.00 each |
| Lunch service | €4,000.00 each |
| Welcome reception | €6,500.00 |
| Student/Poster best paper award | €500.00 |
NOTE: All prices are in Euros and are inclusive of VAT
Platinum sponsor
SG Controls manufactures tools for optical fiber production, including fiber optic draw towers for high-volume production and R&D, MCVD systems for preform production, proof test equipment, and rewind systems. Their equipment features corrosion-proof gas delivery, vapor delivery control, preform diameter control, and integrated process knowledge for repeatable MCVD process control.
Fiber Optic Center provides consulting for fiber process development and manufacturing to specialty optical preform and fiber manufacturers. Our experts, Richard Tumminelli and Larry Donalds, offer support throughout, including post-installation and troubleshooting. We partner with SG Controls to supply top-quality optical fiber process development and manufacturing equipment.
Gold sponsors
Nextrom is the leading global supplier of production technologies for optical fiber and fiber optic cables. Our core competencies include solutions for optical glass making, fiber drawing, fiber coating, ribbon making, proof testing and fiber optic cable production. Our technology is used for producing telecom- and specialty preforms and fibers.
NYFORS is your innovative supplier of advanced glass processing and preparation equipment for specialty optical fiber splicing operations. We supply reliable and precise solutions tailored to the individual challenges of our customers. Our highly automated systems lead to consistent, high yield production for both high and low volume. Our portfolio currently includes: CO2 laser splicing and glass shaping equipment, recoaters, automatic systems for preparation, fiber-end and window stripping.
Exail – photonics division: From the design to the manufacturing, exail masters the complete production chain of specialty fibers, Bragg gratings, high speed modulation solutions and micro-optic assemblies. We provide turn-key laser systems delivering continuous and sub-ns pulsed signal wave, as well as instruments. Our solutions support a very wide variety of applications including high speed communications, fibers-based sensing, space, science, medical, and quantum technologies.
Silver sponsors
Founded 1982, Fibercore is a leading innovator, designer and manufacturer of specialty fiber serving customers across the world. Products include specialty fiber for the Aerospace, Defence, Telecommunications, Oil and Gas, Energy, Medical and Fiber Laser industries – the business is a global market leader. The company’s operations are headquartered in Fibercore House, a custom built Southampton based facility, in the UK.
Optogear offers equipment and technologies for optical fiber manufacturing. Our products enable superior quality fiber optic products made by the world leading companies of the industry. Modern industrial design, close co-operation with our worldwide partner network and attention to customer feedback ensure excellent usability and exceptional performance of our products.
nLIGHT offers cutting-edge specialty laser fibers and semiconductor lasers to realize your fiber laser system at 1µm, 1.5µm and 2µm. nLIGHT’s LIEKKI® laser fibers are fabricated using our proprietary direct nanoparticle deposition process. We manufacture Ytterbium, Erbium, Thulium or passive fibers in standard or customized designs.
NorthLab Photonicsis a competence center for advanced fiber preparation, splicing, glass/fiber processing and FBG manufacturing solutions. The products and services are designed for a wide area of applications; from manufacturing of Fiber Bragg Gratings, Mode Field Adapters, combiners/bundles to preparation and splicing of polyimide, exotic and large diameter fibers. NorthLab customers are found in all industries and research areas where optical fibers are used.
The Arnold Group is an innovative company specializing in the development and implementation of customized solutions in the fields of quartz glass processing (mostly for fiber optics & semiconductor production), glass processing, Silicon processing, as well as automation solution for the previously mentioned.
Exhibitors
Coherent empowers market innovators to define the future through breakthrough technologies, from materials to systems. We deliver innovations that resonate with our customers in diversified applications for the industrial, communications, electronics, and instrumentation markets. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, Coherent has research and development, manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide.
NKT Photonics, part of Hamamatsu Photonics, is the leading manufacturer of high-performance fiber lasers & photonic crystal fibers. Choose from a wide range of ultrafast lasers, supercontinuum white light lasers, low-noise fiber lasers, and an extensive variety of specialty fibers. We have lasers in space and deep under the oceans. Our products run in clean rooms and on oil rigs. We seed the world’s largest laser fusion experiment and power hundreds of advanced microscopes on the globe. With over fifteen years of expertise, we strive to continually be the market leader in everything we do.
THORLABS is a vertical integrated photonics products manufacturer serving the Photonics Industry from research to industrial, life science, medical, and defense segments. Its manufacturing assets include fabrication facilities for semiconductors, optical fibers, epitaxial wafer growth, glass and metal shops, thin film deposition, and optomechanical as well as optoelectronic shops.
PROFiber Networking has been operating since 2007 as a distributor of advanced technologies, diagnostic and test equipment for photonics and optical networks. We operate an ISO 17025 accredited calibration laboratory.
FITEL has been a pioneer in the realm of splicing technology, a critical component utilized by top-tier photonics, aerospace, defence, research, and academic institutions worldwide.
Heracle develops and manufactures custom-designed specialty optical fiber for advanced industrial, medical and sensor applications. We offer simulation, prototype development, mass manufacturing and supply chain management for customers worldwide. Along with our comprehensive measurement and characterization services for fused silica optical fibers we help to develop optical device innovation by translating their specific demands and specifications into innovative fiber products.
Waveguide Technologies is a privately-owned photonics company founded in August 20, 1998. Our experts have been pioneers in the research and manufacturing of specialty optical fibers since 1985, emphasizing high-temperature metalized coatings. We are also the original developers of the revolutionary gold-, aluminum-, and gold alloy-coated optical fibers. These products are used in extreme temperatures and challenging environments.
SHUTE Sensing Solutions has developed a novel microstructured polymer optical fiber sensor system, which enables real-time monitoring of strain/stress, humidity, temperature and vibrations in points along a hair-thin optical fiber. New in productportfolio is a singlemode mPOF humidity sensor and a Chirped FBG mPOF strain sensor. Both are C-band compatible.
The BlueTube® has UV LED System designed for curing fiber coatings made of polymers and acrylates demonstrates unprecedented performance thanks to its unique technology. The proprietary technology enables pioneering curing results leading to a new paradigm in UV LED optical fiber curing. The compact design is easy to integrate in any fiber drawing tower and shows ultra-low noise emission due to its highly efficient water cooling.
Nerve-Sensors produces the world’s first composite DFOS Distributed Fibre Optic Sensors, which have been designed especially for geotechnics and civil engineering applications. Our Nerve- Sensors are dedicated to geometrically continuous measurements of strains, temperature, and displacement, and have already been applied in many proven applications.
Bimes Pro, Plasil and OCTech, a group of companies with extensive experience in optical fiber field, provide solutions for research, development, and production of special optical fibers, based on process knowledge and understanding. Our equipment portfolio covers preform and optical fiber fabrication from raw materials to effluent treatment and specialized measurements.
Redondo Optics Inc. (ROI) is a fiber optic sensor company that provides multi-parameter distributed fiber optic sensors for structural health and condition-based monitoring applications. Specific product lines include miniature fiber Bragg-grating (FBG) sensor interrogation systems, dynamic FBG acoustic-emission, wireless and battery power FBG sensor interrogators, as well as distributed fiber optic chemical sensors.
Opterro is a Silicon Valley-based technology company that offers a family of distributed high speed fiber-optic sensing products with onboard data storage and processing and cloud-based intelligent analytics for a range of applications spanning data center, electric utilities, smart infrastructure, manufacturing, renewable energy, research & development, medical devices & wearables, aerospace & defense, and agtech & climate.
COIA, with +40 years of excellence, offers UV-curable resins and coatings for optical fibers and composites. Our patented Galaxy® HPHTC250 series withstands up to +250°C, ensuring durability under harsh conditions, high-speed drawing (LED-curing approved by BlueTube®) and easy handling. COIA is the trusted partner in high-demand industries such as oil and gas, lasers and medical applications worldwide.