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    • Brad Hendrix

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    National Sales Manager for OEM

    Brad Hendrix’s career in fiber optics spans nearly 25 years. He currently serves as AFL’s national sales manager for OEM. In this capacity, Brad determines marketing and sales strategy for high end splicing, testing cable and connectivity applications in the industrial and university markets as well as oil and gas industry. This role exposes Brad and his team to some of the most difficult and interesting glass processing problems in the fiber optic marketplace.

    Brad began his career in fiber optics in 1987 working at the Alcoa Technical Center on embedded fiber sensors in composite materials. He joined AFL in 1989 and has worked in many fiber optic product and business development areas within AFL including Sensor Systems working with PM fibers, optical couplers, WDMs and fiber management solutions.

    Brad holds degrees in Computer Science, Laser Electro-Optics and Physics.

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    Fiber Optics

    Components for Fiber Optics: Advanced manufacturing techniques benefit fiber-optic components

    Mike Harju
    Jan. 16, 2015
    Fiber lensing techniques, end cap technology, tapers, multicore fiber fan-outs, fiber combiners, mode field adapters, and overcladding all benefit from versatile new optical fiber...