THE HISTORY OF CRYSTAL FIBRE A/S

Crystal Fibre A/S was established late 1999 on the basis of know-how and patent applications held by a number of research scientists at Research Center COM at The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and is wholly owned by NKT Holding.
Today we run a complete fiber fabrication facility placed north of Copenhagen, Denmark, enabling us to handle all development, fabrication and characterization in-house, and we are today the worlds largest supplier of photonic crystal fibers.

1996:		Professor Anders Bjarklev, Jes Broeng and Stig E. Barkou began research at The Technical University of Denmark
1999:		Crystal Fibre A/S is founded. Majority owned and funded by Danish industrial group NKT
2000:		First products sold, making Crystal Fibre the first commercial supplier of photonic crystal fibers
2001:		New production facilities on-line
2004:		Crystal Fibre acquires the assets of BlazePhotonics