SUGAR LAND, Texas, March 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (NASDAQ: AAOI), a leading provider of advanced optical and HFC networking products that power AI, today announced plans for the Optical Fiber Communications Conference ‘OFC', at the Los Angeles Convention Center, March 17-19, where it will demonstrate how its solutions support modern data centers with the bandwidth, power and density needed for future AI systems. Over the past few years, AOI has strategically enhanced its portfolio to provide the high-performance optical sources required for the industry's shift toward silicon photonics, Near-Packaged Optics (NPO), and co-packaged optics (CPO) architectures.