Lightwaves 2020, Inc. designs and manufactures integrated and intelligent fiber optic components and subsystems for optical networks. It offers inline products, including mini inline wavelength and power monitors, optical channel monitors, and mini inline optical power monitors with liquid crystal displays for high performance in real-time monitoring, measurement, and analyzation of optical systems and networks; handheld, benchtop, and rackmount optical instruments for telecommunications, defense, biomedicine, laboratories, and other consumer and commercial applications; and thin film filters and related optical components for application in aerospace, biomedical optics, displays, fiber optics, high power lasers, defense, optical sensing, optical spectroscopic instrumentation, scientific instrumentations, and ultra violet optics. The company also provides active and passive devices, such as variable optical attenuators, EDFAs, WDMs, tunable filters, polarization controllers, ASE sources, optical switches, PM fiber fused couplers, OCMs, intelligent arrays, optical monitors and arrays, and optical add/drop modules. In addition, it offers customized module design, integration, and manufacturing services to develop solutions for clients. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Milpitas, California.