- CEO
- Min-Ho Kim
- Full Time Employees
- 66
- Sector
- Electronic technology
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Address
- Daejeon South Korea
- IPO Date
- Feb 13, 2004
- Business
- LIGHTRON FIBER-OPTIC DEVICES INC. (KRX: 069540) is a South Korea-based technology company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets optical communication components and optoelectronic modules for telecommunications, data centers, and broadband network infrastructures worldwide. Founded in October 1998 and headquartered in Daejeon, South Korea, the company operates within the telecommunications and networking equipment industry, serving tier-one telecom operators, network equipment manufacturers, data center operators, and cable television providers across the Asia-Pacific region, North America, and international markets.
The company's core product and service portfolio encompasses active optical transceivers for 5G mobile fronthaul and backhaul networks, including 10G and 25G SFP+, 25G SFP28 duplex, bidirectional, and C-band tunable Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing modules; high-speed hyperscale data center and artificial intelligence computing transceivers, including 50G SFP56, 100G QSFP28, 200G, 400G QSFP-DD, 800G OSFP, and 1.6T-class optical transceivers designed for high-performance computing interconnects; Fiber-to-the-Home and broadband access solutions, including Gigabit Passive Optical Network, 10G XGS-PON, NG-PON2, and WDM-PON Optical Line Terminal and Optical Network Unit transceivers; analog optical transmission modules and sub-assemblies for cable television forward and return path networks; pluggable optical amplifiers, including Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier modules; and portable optical test and measurement instrumentation, including optical power meters, light sources, and fiber fault locators.
In recent corporate developments, the company officially changed its corporate name from Lightron Inc. to Lightron Fiber-Optic Devices Inc. in March 2024 to reinforce its core brand identity in optoelectronic engineering. To address surging demand from generative artificial intelligence architectures and cloud data centers, the company expanded its high-speed transceiver lineup by completing the development of 1.6T-class and 800G optical transceivers for AI accelerator clusters. Additionally, the company strengthened its tier-one supply chain integration, earning recognition as an outstanding partner from Samsung Electronics for its telecommunications transmission technologies. Operationally, the company has optimized its corporate structure and capital allocation, streamlining non-core assets to concentrate research, development, and manufacturing capacity on high-margin high-speed data communication modules and next-generation optical network deployments.