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Finisar: Companies & Products

Finisar Corporation is a manufacturer of optical communication components and subsystems. The company was founded in April 1987 by Frank Levinson and Jerry Rawls in Menlo Park, California. In November 1999, it went public via an initial public offering. In 2008 Finisar merged with Optium Corporation. In September 2019, Finisar was acquired by II-VI…

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Finisar topic overview

The analysis highlights Companies and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Finisar.

Related topics
13
Source areas
2
Connected nodes
15
Extracted relationships
19
Related term clusters
9
Bridge connections
15

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 9 topics
Partnerships · 4 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
April 1987; 39 years ago (1987-04): 2
Founders
Frank Levinson · Jerry Rawls
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California
Number of employees
13,000 (2019)
Parent
Coherent Corp.
Products
Optical communication components

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Finisar
6Optical communication · Frank Levinson · Jerry S. Rawls
7Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer · Wavelength · Apple TV app

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Overview

Partnerships

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Finisar connects Entity context

The extracted context around Finisar shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Finisar → Apple Inc, Apple's, December, Face ID, Finisar's, Sherman, Texas Another extracted example is Finisar → Frank Levinson, Jerry Rawls. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Finisar

Top relations

related to Partnerships · 7
Finisar → Apple Inc, Apple's, December, Face ID, Finisar's, Sherman, Texas
Founders · 2
Finisar → Frank Levinson, Jerry Rawls
Founded · 1
Finisar → April 1987; 39 years ago (1987-04): 2
Headquarters · 1
Finisar → Sunnyvale, California
Number of employees · 1
Finisar → 13,000 (2019)
Parent · 1
Finisar → Coherent Corp.
Products · 1
Finisar → Optical communication components
Revenue · 1
Finisar → US$1.28 billion (2019)
Traded as · 1
Finisar → Nasdaq: FNSR
Type · 1
Finisar → Subsidiary

Important terminology

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Important terminology

corporation optical components products communication founded april 1987 frank levinson jerry rawls california 2019 us billion finisar's coherent corp website

Finisar relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 19 structured relationships around Finisar. Examples in this analysis include Finisar → Founded → April 1987; 39 years ago (1987-04): 2 and Finisar → Founders → Frank Levinson. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
FinisarFoundedApril 1987; 39 years ago (1987-04): 21.00infobox
FinisarFoundersFrank Levinson1.00infobox
FinisarFoundersJerry Rawls1.00infobox
FinisarHeadquartersSunnyvale, California1.00infobox
FinisarNumber of employees13,000 (2019)1.00infobox
FinisarParentCoherent Corp.1.00infobox
FinisarProductsOptical communication components1.00infobox
FinisarRevenueUS$1.28 billion (2019)1.00infobox
FinisarTraded asNasdaq: FNSR1.00infobox
FinisarTypeSubsidiary1.00infobox
FinisarWebsitefinisar.com1.00infobox
the Face IDinstance ofD spending and high-volume production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers that power some of Apple's features0.80text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Finisar bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Billion, Communication and Us. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Finisar
    • Billion
    • Communication
    • Us
    • Components
    • Optical
    • Acquired
    • Manufacturer
    • Merged
    • Optium
    • September
    • Subsystems
    • April
  • finisar
    • Billion
    • Communication
    • Us
    • Components
    • Optical
    • Acquired
    • Manufacturer
    • Merged
    • Optium
    • September
    • Subsystems
    • April
  • optical communication
    • Components
    • Corporation
    • Optical
    • Manufacturer
    • Products
    • Subsystems
    • Finisar
    • April
    • Billion
    • California
    • Coherent
    • Corp
  • menlo park, california
    • Founded
    • Frank
    • Jerry
    • Levinson
    • Park
    • Rawls
    • Company
    • Menlo
    • Billion
    • Coherent
    • Communication
    • Corp
  • frank levinson
    • Jerry
    • Levinson
    • Rawls
    • Menlo
    • Park
    • Billion
    • Coherent
    • Corp
    • Us
    • Optical
    • Products
  • jerry rawls
    • Levinson
    • Rawls
    • Menlo
    • Park
    • Billion
    • Coherent
    • Corp
    • Us
    • Optical
    • Products
  • initial public offering
    • November
    • Offering
    • Public
    • Via
    • Went
  • wavelength
    • Roadm
    • Finisar's
    • Components
    • Optical
    • Products

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Finisar, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Finisar with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Finisar — Overview · splits 6 ⟂ 10
Finisar — Partnerships · splits 11 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Finisar

Nodes16
Edges15
Triples19
Avg. degree1.88
Density0.125
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Finisar to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Companies & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Finisar · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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