II-VI Incorporated to Participate at the OIDA Executive Forum and Present at OFC

PITTSBURGH, March 09, 2018 -- II‐VI Incorporated (NASDAQ:IIVI), a global leader in engineered materials and optical solutions for networks, today announced that Dr. Chuck Mattera, President and CEO, will participate at the Optical Society of America Industry Development Associates (OIDA) Executive Forum’s Special CEO Fireside Chat and that Dr. Sanjai Parthasarathi, Vice President of Product Marketing and Strategy, Optical Communications Group, will be a panelist at the OFC 2018 Data Center Summit. II-VI will also exhibit at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) in San Diego, California, on March 12-15, 2018, in Booth #2313.

2018 OIDA Executive Forum

Dr. Chuck Mattera will partake in the OIDA’s “Special CEO Fireside Chat: The View from the Top” which will take place at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel, Sapphire AB Ballroom San Diego, CA on Monday, March 12 at 4:05 PM. This fireside chat features CEOs from leading companies in the optical components industry providing their unique perspectives on a broad range of industry issues.

OFC 2018: Data Center Summit: Data Center Optical Interconnect – Technologies and Markets

Dr. Sanjai Parthasarathi, as part of the panel of the Data Center Summit, will discuss advances in optical line systems for emerging data center interconnects. The session will take place on Tuesday, March 13 at 10:15 AM.

New products showcased at OFC 2018:

• CTM 1450 high resolution optical channel monitors for flexible grid reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs)
• Ultra-low profile wide band tunable optical filters for next generation pluggable coherent optics
• Bi-Directional Optical Line Subsystem (Bi-Di OLS) platform for datacenter interconnects (DCI),  optimized for direct-detect DWDM transceivers, including the new COLORZ-Lite™ 100G PAM4 platform from Inphi Corporation (NYSE: IPHI). This new DCI solution will be demonstrated at II-VI’s booth #2313.

The product showcase will include a broad portfolio of products for ROADM line cards, highly compact optical amplifier solutions tailored to enable high bit rate DWDM transceivers, micro-optics assemblies for CATV networks, micro-optics and optoelectronics for datacenter transceivers, InP-based epiwafers and thermo-electric solutions.

About II-VI Incorporated

II-VI Incorporated, a global leader in engineered materials and optoelectronic components, is a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, the Company has research and development, manufacturing, sales, service, and distribution facilities worldwide. The Company produces a wide variety of application-specific photonic and electronic materials and components, and deploys them in various forms, including integrated with advanced software to enable our customers. For more information, please visit us at www.ii-vi.com.

CONTACT: Mark Lourie
Dir. Corporate Communications
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www.ii-vi.com