Finisar (FNSR) 10-Q 2011 Q3 Quarterly report

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 10-Q

(Mark One)

x QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the Quarterly Period Ended January 30, 2011

or

o TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                 to

Commission file number 000-27999

Finisar Corporation

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	94-3038428
(State or other jurisdiction of	(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)	Identification No.)
1389 Moffett Park Drive
Sunnyvale, California	94089
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code:

408-548-1000

  Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.  Yes  x  No  o

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Large accelerated filer o Accelerated filer x Non-accelerated filer o (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) Smaller reporting company o

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     At February 28, 2011, there were 89,631,781 shares of the registrant's common stock, $.001 par value, issued and outstanding.

INDEX TO QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q

For the Quarter Ended January 30, 2011

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PART I FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements (Unaudited):
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of  January 30, 2011 and April 30, 2010	3
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and nine month periods ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010	4
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the nine month periods ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010	5
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements	6
Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	22
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk	31
Item 4. Controls and Procedures	31
PART II OTHER INFORMATION	32
Item 1. Legal Proceedings	32
Item 1A. Risk Factors	32
Item 6. Exhibits	43
Signatures	44
EX-10.1
EX-10.2
EX-31.1
EX-31.2
EX-31.3
EX-32.1
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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements

FINISAR CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands, except share data)

	January 30, 2011			April 30, 2010
	(Unaudited)
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	310,232		$	207,024
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $1,246 at January 30, 2011 and $2,085 at April 30, 2010	175,173			127,617
Accounts receivable, other	13,910			12,855
Inventories	176,811			139,525
Deferred tax assets	2,437			2,238
Prepaid expenses and other	11,253			6,956
Total current assets	689,816			496,215
Property, equipment and improvements, net	112,324			89,214
Purchased technology, net	8,403			11,689
Other intangible assets, net	10,509			11,713
Minority investments	18,610			12,289
Other assets	4,178			5,610
Total assets	$	843,840		$	626,730
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	$	83,263		$	76,838
Accrued compensation	21,872			18,289
Other accrued liabilities	25,101			21,798
Deferred revenue	7,186			6,571
Current portion of convertible debt (Note 9)	—			28,839
Current portion of long-term debt (Note 10)	—			4,000
Total current liabilities	137,422			156,335
Long-term liabilities:
Convertible debt, net of current portion (Note 9)	57,850			100,000
Long-term debt, net of current portion (Note 10)	—			15,250
Other non-current liabilities	12,706			6,260
Deferred tax liabilities	387			239
Total liabilities	208,365			278,084
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders' equity:
Preferred stock, $0.001 par value, 5,000,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding at January 30, 2011 and April 30, 2010	—			—
Common stock, $0.001 par value, 750,000,000 shares authorized, 87,376,362 shares issued and outstanding at January 30, 2011 and 75,824,913 shares issued and outstanding at April 30, 2010	87			76
Additional paid-in capital	2,239,726			2,030,373
Accumulated other comprehensive income	21,513			15,791
Accumulated deficit	(1,625,851		)	(1,697,594		)
Total stockholders' equity	635,475			348,646
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity	$	843,840		$	626,730

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FINISAR CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(Unaudited, in thousands, except per share data)

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011			January 31, 2010			January 30, 2011			January 31, 2010
Revenues	$	263,016		$	166,935		$	711,841		$	441,390
Cost of revenues	177,730			114,048			470,865			316,923
Amortization of acquired developed technology	1,221			1,192			3,613			3,577
Gross profit	84,065			51,695			237,363			120,890
Operating expenses:
Research and development	29,607			24,892			84,372			67,514
Sales and marketing	8,818			7,922			27,140			22,054
General and administrative	20,604			9,329			40,197			27,127
Restructuring charges	—			—			—			4,173
Amortization of purchased intangibles	383			426			1,149			1,645
Total operating expenses	59,412			42,569			152,858			122,513
Income (loss) from operations	24,653			9,126			84,505			(1,623		)
Interest income	204			85			439			104
Interest expense	(1,465		)	(2,241		)	(5,697		)	(6,842		)
Loss on debt extinguishment	—			28			—			(25,039		)
Other income (expense), net	(3,404		)	(961		)	(3,404		)	(2,899		)
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes	19,988			6,037			75,843			(36,299		)
Provision for income taxes	1,167			421			3,816			618
Income (loss) from continuing operations	$	18,821		$	5,616		$	72,027		$	(36,917	)
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income taxes	—			(131		)	(284		)	36,881
Net income (loss)	$	18,821		$	5,485		$	71,743		$	(36	)
Net income (loss) per share- basic and diluted
Basic:
Income (loss) per share from continuing operations	$	0.24		$	0.09		$	0.93		$	(0.58	)
Income (loss) per share from discontinued operations	$	—		$	—		$	—		$	0.58
Net income (loss) per share	$	0.24		$	0.09		$	0.93		$	—
Diluted:
Income (loss) per share from continuing operations	$	0.22		$	0.08		$	0.84		$	(0.58	)
Income (loss) per share from discontinued operations	$	—		$	—		$	—		$	0.58
Net income (loss) per share	$	0.22		$	0.08		$	0.84		$	—
Shares used in computing net income (loss) per share
Basic	80,080			65,113			77,638			63,131
Diluted	93,388			66,719			90,694			63,131

See accompanying notes.

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FINISAR CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(Unaudited, in thousands)

	Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011			January 31, 2010
Operating activities
Net income (loss)	$	71,743		$	(36	)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization	31,668			28,179
Stock-based compensation expense	12,727			12,322
Stock-based defined contribution retirement plan expense	155			—
Non-cash interest cost on 2.5% convertible senior subordinated notes	742			2,674
Impairment of minority investments	—			2,000
Loss on sale or retirement of assets	163			327
Debt conversion inducement expense	5,946			—
Loss on debt extinguishment	—			23,552
Gain on sale of equity investment	—			(1,625		)
Gain on sale of discontinued operations	—			(35,888		)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable	(47,556		)	(34,579		)
Inventories	(35,564		)	(12,432		)
Other assets	(5,288		)	(1,185		)
Deferred income taxes	(50		)	(13		)
Accounts payable	6,425			16,703
Accrued compensation	3,426			924
Other accrued liabilities	3,159			(6,278		)
Deferred revenue	7,173			3,611
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities	$	54,869		$	(1,744	)
Investing activities
Purchases of property, equipment and improvements	(44,723		)	(21,419		)
Proceeds from sale of equity investment	—			1,625
Purchase of intangible assets	—			(375		)
Purchase of available for sale minority investment	(5,880		)	—
Proceeds from sale of discontinued operation	—			40,683
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities	$	(50,603	)	$	20,514
Financing activities
Proceeds from borrowings under line of credit	—			10,000
Restricted cash and cash equivalents	—			(3,400		)
Proceeds from term loan	—			4,500
Net proceeds from issuance of 5% convertible notes	—			98,057
Repayments of borrowings under notes	(19,250		)	(6,663		)
Repayment of convertible notes	(29,581		)	(87,951		)
Net proceeds from common stock offering	117,906			—
Proceeds from exercise of stock options and stock purchase plan, net of repurchase of unvested shares	29,867			5,047
Net cash provided by financing activities	$	98,942		$	19,590
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents	103,208			38,360
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period	207,024			37,221
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period	$	310,232		$	75,581
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information
Cash paid for interest	$	3,311		$	2,488
Cash paid for taxes	2,052			408
Issuance of common stock upon conversion of convertible debt	48,655			16,383

See accompanying notes.

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FINISAR CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(unaudited)

1. Basis of Presentation

Description of Business

     Finisar Corporation (the “Company”) was incorporated in California in April 1987 and reincorporated in Delaware in November 1999. The Company is a leading provider of optical subsystems and components that are used to interconnect equipment in local area networks, or LANs, storage area networks, or SANs, metropolitan area networks, or MANs, fiber-to-the-home networks, or FTTx, cable television, or CATV, networks, and wide area networks, or WANs. The Company's optical subsystems consist primarily of transmitters, receivers, transceivers and transponders which provide the fundamental optical-electrical interface for connecting the equipment used in building these networks, including switches, routers and file servers used in wireline networks as well as antennas and base stations for wireless networks. These products rely on the use of digital and analog RF semiconductor lasers in conjunction with integrated circuit design and novel packaging technology to provide a cost-effective means for transmitting and receiving digital signals over fiber optic cable at speeds ranging from less than 1 gigabit per second, or Gbps, to 100 Gbps using a wide range of network protocols and physical configurations over distances from 70 meters up to 200 kilometers. The Company supplies optical transceivers and transponders that allow point-to-point communications on a fiber using a single specified wavelength or, bundled with multiplexing technologies, can be used to supply multi-gigabit bandwith over several wavelengths on the same fiber. The Company also provides products known as wavelength selective switches, or WSS, that are used for dynamically switching network traffic from one optical link to another across multiple wavelengths without first converting to an electrical signal. These products are sometimes combined with other components and sold as linecards, also known as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, or ROADMs. The Company's line of optical components consists primarily of packaged lasers and photodetectors used in transceivers, primarily for LAN and SAN applications, and passive optical components used in building MANs. Demand for the Company's products is largely driven by the continually growing need for additional bandwidth created by the ongoing proliferation of data and video traffic that must be handled by both wireline and wireless networks.

     The Company's manufacturing operations are vertically integrated and include internal production, assembly and test capabilities for the Company's optical subsystem products, as well as key components used in those subsystems. The Company produces many of the key components used in making its products including lasers, photodetectors and integrated circuits, or ICs, designed by its own internal IC engineering teams. The Company also has internal assembly and test capabilities that make use of internally designed equipment for the automated testing of the optical subsystems and components.

     The Company sells its optical subsystem and component products to manufacturers of storage systems, networking equipment and telecommunication equipment such as Alcatel-Lucent, Brocade, Cisco Systems, EMC, Emulex, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard Company, Huawei, IBM, Juniper, Qlogic, Siemens and Tellabs, and to their contract manufacturers. These customers in turn sell their systems to businesses and to wireline and wireless telecommunications service providers and CATV operators, collectively referred to as carriers. Sales to the Company's top five customers represented 50% and 43% of total revenues in the third quarter of fiscal 2011 and third quarter of fiscal 2010, respectively and 49% and 43% of total revenues in the first nine months of fiscal 2011 and first nine months of fiscal 2010, respectively.

     The Company formerly provided network performance test systems through its Network Tools Division. On July 15, 2009, the Company consummated the sale of substantially all of the assets of the Network Tools Division to JDS Uniphase Corporation (“JDSU”). In accordance with accounting guidance provided by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”), the operating results of this business and the associated assets and liabilities are reported as discontinued operations in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements for the periods presented. See Note 3 for further information regarding the sale of the assets of the division.

     The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of January 30, 2011 and for the three and nine month periods ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010 have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") for interim financial statements and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and include the accounts of Finisar Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries (collectively, “Finisar” or the “Company”). Inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. In the opinion of management, the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring adjustments) necessary for a fair presentation of the Company's financial position at January 30, 2011 and its operating results and cash flows for the

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three and nine month periods ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010. Operating results for the three and nine month periods ended January 30, 2011, are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the fiscal year ending April 30, 2011. The condensed consolidated balance sheet at April 30, 2010 has been derived from the audited consolidated financial statements at that date but does not include all the footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's audited financial statements and notes for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2010 included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2010.

Fiscal Periods

     The Company maintains its financial records on the basis of a fiscal year ending on April 30, with fiscal quarters ending on the Sunday closest to the end of the period (thirteen-week periods).

Reclassifications

     Certain reclassifications have been made to the prior period's balance sheet and cash flow statement to conform to the current year presentation. These changes had no impact on the Company's previously reported financial position, results of operations and cash flows.

Use of Estimates

     The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

     For a description of significant accounting policies, see Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to the consolidated financial statements included in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2010. There have been no material changes to the Company's significant accounting policies since the filing of the annual report on Form 10-K, except as noted below.

Recent Adoption of New Accounting Standards

     In January 2010, the FASB issued revised guidance intended to improve disclosures related to fair value measurements. New disclosures under this guidance require (a) an entity to disclose separately the amounts of significant transfers in and out of Levels 1 and 2 fair value measurements and to describe the reasons for the transfers; and (b) information about purchases, sales, issuances and settlements to be presented separately (i.e. present the activity on a gross basis rather than net) in the reconciliation for fair value measurements using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3 inputs). This guidance clarified previous disclosure requirements for the level of disaggregation used for classes of assets and liabilities measured at fair value and requires disclosures about the valuation techniques and inputs used to measure fair value for both recurring and nonrecurring fair value measurements using Level 2 and Level 3 inputs. The new disclosures and clarifications of existing disclosure were adopted by the Company beginning May 2010. The adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.

Pending Adoption of New Accounting Standards

In November 2010, the FASB issued authoritative guidance on disclosure of supplementary pro forma information for business combinations. The new guidance requires that pro forma financial information should be prepared as if the business combination occurred as of the beginning of the prior annual period. The amendments also expand the required supplemental pro forma disclosures to include a description of the nature and amount of material, nonrecurring pro forma adjustments directly attributable to the business combination included in the reported pro forma revenue and earnings. The guidance is effective for the Company for business combinations with acquisition dates occurring in and from the first quarter of fiscal 2012.

     From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by FASB or other standards setting bodies that are adopted by the Company as of the specified effective date. Unless otherwise discussed, the Company believes the impact of recently issued standards that are not yet effective will not have a material impact on its consolidated financial position, results of

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operations and cash flows upon adoption.

Computation of Net Income (Loss) Per Share

     Basic net income (loss) per share has been computed using the weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted net income (loss) per share has been computed using the weighted-average number of shares of common stock and dilutive potential common shares from options, restricted stock units and warrants (under the treasury stock method) and convertible notes (on an as-if-converted basis) outstanding during the period.

The following table presents the calculation of basic and diluted net income (loss) per share from continuing operations (in thousands, except per share amounts):

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010		January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010
Numerator:
Income (loss) from continuing operations	$	18,821	$	5,616	$	72,027	$	(36,917	)
Numerator for basic income (loss) per share from continuing operations	$	18,821	$	5,616	$	72,027	$	(36,917	)
Effect of dilutive securities:
Convertible debt interest expense	1,282		—		4,054		—
Numerator for diluted income (loss) per share from continuing operations	$	20,103	$	5,616	$	76,081	$	(36,917	)
Denominator:
Denominator for basic income (loss) per share from continuing operations- weighted average shares	80,080		65,113		77,638		63,131
Effect of dilutive securities:
Employee stock options and restricted stock units	4,361		1,571		3,723		—
Warrants	36		35		36		—
Convertible debt	8,911		—		9,297		—
Dilutive potential common shares	13,308		1,606		13,056		—
Denominator for diluted income (loss) per share from continuing operations	93,388		66,719		90,694		63,131
Basic income (loss) per share from continuing operations	$	0.24	$	0.09	$	0.93	$	(0.58	)
Diluted income (loss) per share from continuing operations	$	0.22	$	0.08	$	0.84	$	(0.58	)

   For purposes of computing diluted net income per share, weighted average potential common shares do not include potential common shares that are anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method.

	Three Months Ended		Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011	January 31, 2010	January 30, 2011	January 31, 2010
Employee stock options	1,324	5,636	1,978	5,948

     The following table presents common stock equivalents related to potentially dilutive securities excluded from the calculation of diluted net income (loss) per share from continuing operations because they are anti-dilutive (in thousands):

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	Three Months Ended		Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011	January 31, 2010	January 30, 2011	January 31, 2010
Employee stock options	—	—	—	1,450
Conversion of convertible subordinated notes	—	9,498	—	3,808
Warrants assumed in acquisition	—	—	—	35
	—	9,498	—	5,293

Comprehensive Income (Loss)

     FASB authoritative guidance establishes rules for reporting and display of comprehensive income or loss and its components and requires unrealized gains or losses on the Company's available-for-sale securities and foreign currency translation adjustments to be included in comprehensive income (loss).

     The components of comprehensive income (loss) for the three and nine months ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010 were as follows (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended					Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010			January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010
Net income (loss)	$	18,821	$	5,485		$	71,743	$	(36	)
Foreign currency translation adjustment, net of income taxes	440		(589		)	5,281		7,751
Change in unrealized gain (loss) on securities, net of reclassification adjustments, net of income taxes	441		(2		)	441		(18		)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	$	19,702	$	4,894		$	77,465	$	7,697

     The components of accumulated other comprehensive income, net of taxes, were as follows (in thousands):

	January 30, 2011		April 30, 2010
Net unrealized gain on available-for-sale security	$	441	$	—
Cumulative translation adjustment	21,072		15,791
Accumulated other comprehensive income	$	21,513	$	15,791

3. Discontinued Operations

     During the three months ended August 2, 2009, the Company completed the sale of substantially all of the assets of its Network Tools Division to JDSU. The Company received $40.7 million in cash and recorded a net gain on sale of the business of $35.9 million before income taxes, which is included in income from discontinued operations, net of tax, in the Company's condensed consolidated statements of operations. The assets and liabilities and results of operation related to this business have been classified as discontinued operations in the condensed consolidated financial statements for all periods presented. The Company has elected not to separately disclose the cash flows associated with the discontinued operations in the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.

The following table summarizes results from discontinued operations (in thousands):

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	Three Months Ended					Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010			January 30, 2011			January 31, 2010
Net revenue	$	—	$	—		$	—		$	6,753
Gross profit	—		—			—			4,892
Income (loss) from discontinued operations	—		(131		)	(284		)	36,881
Gain (loss) on sale of discontinued operations	—		(165		)	—			35,888

The following table summarizes the gain on sale of discontinued operations for the nine months ended January 31, 2010 (in thousands):

Gross proceeds from sale	$	40,683
Assets sold
Inventory	(4,814		)
Property and equipment	(2,460		)
Intangibles	(845		)
Liabilities transferred
Deferred revenue	3,102
Other accruals	312
Other charges	(90		)
	$	35,888

     The transition services agreement the Company had entered into with the buyer in connection with the sale of the assets of the Network Tools Division, under which the Company agreed to provide manufacturing services to the buyer during the transition period, was completed on July 14, 2010. Total operating expenses incurred in relation to the transition services agreement during the nine months ended January 30, 2011 were $284,000.

4. Inventories

     Inventories consist of the following (in thousands):

	January 30, 2011		April 30, 2010
Raw materials	$	56,978	$	46,780
Work-in-process	63,436		54,352
Finished goods	56,397		38,393
Total inventories	$	176,811	$	139,525

     During the three and nine months ended January 30, 2011, the Company recorded charges of $6.9 million and $13.5 million, respectively, for excess and obsolete inventory, and sold inventory that was written-off in previous periods with an approximate cost of $3.1 million and $9.5 million, respectively. This resulted in a net charge for excess and obsolete inventory of $3.8 million and $4.0 million, respectively, during the three and nine months ended January 30, 2011.

During the three and nine months ended January 31, 2010, the Company recorded charges of $4.1 million and $18.9 million, respectively, for excess and obsolete inventory, and sold inventory that was written-off in previous periods with an approximate cost of $4.3 million and $11.4 million, respectively. This resulted in a net credit for excess and obsolete inventory of $200,000 during the three months ended January 31, 2010 and a net charge for excess and obsolete inventory of $7.5 million during the nine months ended January 31, 2010.

     The Company enters into agreements with subcontractors that allow them to procure inventory on behalf of the Company to

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fulfill subcontractor obligations. The Company records a liability for noncancelable purchase commitments with these subcontractors for quantities in excess of its future demand forecasts. As of January 30, 2011 and April 30, 2010, the liability for these purchase commitments was $1.9 million and $722,000, respectively, and was recorded on the balance sheet as other accrued liabilities.

5. Property, Equipmentand Improvements

     Property, equipment and improvements consist of the following (in thousands):

	January 30, 2011			April 30, 2010
Buildings	$	8,924		$	8,337
Computer equipment	41,231			36,236
Office equipment, furniture and fixtures	4,086			3,853
Machinery and equipment	215,929			178,894
Leasehold improvements	20,383			18,699
Construction-in-process	10,751			4,190
Total	301,304			250,209
Accumulated depreciation and amortization	(188,980		)	(160,995		)
Property, equipment and improvements (net)	$	112,324		$	89,214

6. Intangible Assets

     The following table reflects intangible assets subject to amortization as of January 30, 2011 and April 30, 2010 (in thousands):

	January 30, 2011
	Gross Carrying		Accumulated			Net Carrying
	Amount		Amortization			Amount
Purchased technology	$	76,264	$	(67,861	)	$	8,403
Purchased trade name	1,172		(1,172		)	—
Purchased customer relationships	15,970		(5,717		)	10,253
Purchased patents	375		(119		)	256
Total	$	93,781	$	(74,869	)	$	18,912

	April 30, 2010
	Gross Carrying		Accumulated			Net Carrying
	Amount		Amortization			Amount
Purchased technology	$	75,936	$	(64,247	)	$	11,689
Purchased trade name	1,172		(1,172		)	—
Purchased customer relationships	15,970		(4,569		)	11,401
Purchased patents	375		(63		)	312
Total	$	93,453	$	(70,051	)	$	23,402

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Estimated remaining amortization expense for each of the next five fiscal years ending April 30, is as follows (in thousands):

Year	Amount
2011	$	1,473
2012	5,519
2013	4,107
2014	2,392
2015 and beyond	5,421
Total	$	18,912

7. Investments

     The following table presents a summary of the Company's investments measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of January 30, 2011 (in thousands):

			Significant
	Quoted Prices		Other
	in Active		Observable		Significant
	Markets For		Remaining		Unobservable
Assets Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis	Identical Assets		Inputs		Inputs		Total
	(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)
Assets
Cash equivalents
Money market funds	$	115,229	$	—	$	—	$	115,229
Cash	—		—		—		195,003
Total cash and cash equivalents							310,232
Available for sale minority investment	6,322		—		—		6,322
Total assets							$	316,554

     The following table presents a summary of the Company's investments measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of April 30, 2010 (in thousands):

			Significant
	Quoted Prices		Other
	in Active		Observable		Significant
	Markets For		Remaining		Unobservable
Assets Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis	Identical Assets		Inputs		Inputs		Total
	(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)
Assets
Cash equivalents
Money market funds	$	140,014	$	—	$	—	$	140,014
Total cash equivalents	$	140,014	$	—	$	—	$	140,014
Cash							67,010
Total cash and cash equivalents							$	207,024

  The gross realized gains and losses for the three and nine months ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010 were

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immaterial. Realized gains and losses were calculated based on the specific identification method. The amortized cost basis of the available-for-sale minority investment as of January 30, 2011 was $5.9 million, and the net unrealized gain for this investment included in accumulated other comprehensive income was $441,000.

8. Minority Investments

     The carrying value of minority investments at January 30, 2011 and April 30, 2010 was $18.6 million and $12.3 million, respectively. The carrying value of such investments at April 30, 2010 was comprised of the Company's minority investment in three privately held companies accounted for under the cost method. The carrying value at January 30, 2011 also included an investment of $6.3 million in a publicly held foreign company made in September 2010 that was accounted for under the fair value method as it was classified as available for sale. The Company's investments in these companies were primarily motivated by its desire to gain access to new technology. The Company's investments were passive in nature in that the Company generally did not obtain representation on the board of directors of the companies in which it invested.

9. Convertible Debt

     The Company's convertible debt balances as of January 30, 2011 and April 30, 2010 were as follows (in thousands):

	Carrying			Interest		Due in
Description	Amount			Rate		Fiscal year
As of January 30, 2011
Convertible senior notes due October 2029	$	57,850		5.00	%	2030
Total	$	57,850
As of April 30, 2010
Convertible senior notes due October 2029	$	100,000		5.00	%	2030
Convertible subordinated notes due October 2010	3,900			2.50	%	2011
Convertible senior subordinated notes due October 2010	25,681			2.50	%	2011
Unamortized debt discount	(742		)
Convertible senior subordinated notes, net	24,939
Total	$	128,839

In January 2011, the Company entered into privately-negotiated agreements with existing holders of the Company’s 5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 to exchange an aggregate of approximately $42.2 million principal amount of the notes for a total of approximately 3.9 million shares of the Company’s common stock, based on the conversion price of the notes of $10.68 per share, plus 188,496 additional shares including16,202 shares issued in payment of accrued and unpaid interest of $558,997. Following these exchanges, as of January 30, 2011, approximately $57.9 million aggregate principal amount of the notes remained outstanding. The Company recognized debt conversion inducement expense of $5.9 million on these exchanges, representing the fair value of the shares issued in excess of the number of shares issuable in accordance with the original conversion terms of the notes. This amount was recorded as general and administrative expense.

Subsequent to January 30, 2011, the Company entered into additional privately-negotiated agreements with existing holders of the Company’s 5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 to exchange an aggregate of approximately $17.8 million principal amount of the notes for shares of the Company's common stock. See Note 22 for additional information regarding these exchanges.

In October 2010, the Company repaid in cash the remaining outstanding principal amount of $25.7 million and $3.9 million that was due on its 2 1/2% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes and 2 1/2% Convertible Subordinated Notes, respectively.

The following table presents the associated interest expense related to the Company's Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes that were repaid in October 2010. The interest expense consists of both the contractual interest coupon (cash interest cost) and amortization of the discount on the liability (non-cash interest cost) (in thousands):

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	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010		January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010
Non-cash interest cost	$	—	$	383	$	742	$	2,674
Cash interest cost	—		171		294		1,256
Total interest expense	$	—	$	554	$	1,036	$	3,930

10. Long-term Debt

Malaysian Bank Loan

        In July 2008, the Company's Malaysian subsidiary entered into two separate loan agreements with a Malaysian bank. Under these agreements, the Company's Malaysian subsidiary borrowed a total of $20 million at an initial interest rate of 5.05% per annum. The first loan was payable in 20 equal quarterly installments of $750,000 beginning in January 2009, and the second loan was payable in 20 equal quarterly installments of $250,000 beginning in October 2008. As of April 30, 2010, $13.8 million of this loan was outstanding of which $4.0 million was the current portion. In January 2011, the remaining principal balance of the loan was repaid in full by the Company's Malaysian subsidiary.

Chinese Bank Loan

     In January 2010, the Company's Chinese subsidiary entered into a loan agreement with a bank in China. Under this agreement, the Company's Chinese subsidiary borrowed a total of $4.5 million at an initial interest rate of 2.6% per annum. In April 2010, the Chinese subsidiary borrowed an additional $1.0 million from the bank. The loan was payable on January 6, 2013. As of April 30, 2010, $5.5 million of this loan was outstanding. In January 2011, the remaining principal balance of the loan was repaid in full by the Company's Chinese subsidiary.

11. Short-term Debt

     On October 2, 2009, the Company entered into an agreement with Wells Fargo Foothill, LLC to establish a four-year $70 million senior secured revolving credit facility. Borrowings under the credit facility bear interest at rates based on the prime rate and LIBOR plus variable margins, under which applicable interest rates currently range from 5.75% to 7.00% per annum. Borrowings are guaranteed by the Company's U.S. subsidiaries and secured by substantially all of the assets of the Company and its U.S. subsidiaries. The credit facility matures four years following the date of the agreement, subject to certain conditions. As of January 30, 2011, the availability of credit under the facility was reduced by $3.4 million for outstanding letters of credit secured under the agreement. Borrowing availability as of January 30, 2011 was $66.6 million, and there were no borrowings outstanding against the facility as of that date.

The credit facility is subject to certain financial covenants. Prior to February 2011, the Company was subject to a $4.0 million limit on individual investments that it could make. During the quarter ended October 31, 2010, the Company invested $5.9 million in a publicly held foreign company, which exceeded the maximum individual investment permitted under the covenant. The Company obtained a waiver from the bank to allow this investment. The Company was in compliance with all covenants associated with this facility as of January 30, 2011. In February 2011, the credit agreement was amended to modify certain financial covenants, including the $4.0 million limit on individual investments which was increased to $50.0 million.

12. Warranty

     The Company generally offers a one-year limited warranty for its products. The specific terms and conditions of these warranties vary depending upon the product sold. The Company estimates the costs that may be incurred under its basic limited warranty and records a liability for the amount of such costs based at the time revenue is recognized. Factors that affect the Company's warranty liability include the historical and anticipated rates of warranty claims. The Company periodically assesses the adequacy of its recorded warranty liabilities and adjusts the amounts as necessary.

     Changes in the Company's warranty liability during the following period were as follows (in thousands):

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	Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011
Beginning balance at April 30, 2010	$	5,472
Additions during the period based on product sold	3,338
Settlements	121
Changes in liability for pre-existing warranties, including expirations	(3,798		)
Ending balance at January 30, 2011	$	5,133

13. Fair Value of Financial Instruments

     The following disclosure of the estimated fair value of financial instruments presents amounts that have been determined using available market information and appropriate valuation methodologies. The estimated fair values of the Company's financial instruments as of January 30, 2011 and April 30, 2010 were as follows (in thousands):

	January 30, 2011				April 30, 2010
	Carrying				Carrying
	Amount		Fair Value		Amount		Fair Value
Financial assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	310,232	$	310,232	$	207,024	$	207,024
Available for sale minority investment	6,321		6,321		—		—
Total	$	316,553	$	316,553	$	207,024	$	207,024
Financial liabilities:
Convertible notes	$	57,850	$	188,051	$	128,839	$	188,710
Long-term debt	—		—		19,250		18,183
Total	$	57,850	$	188,051	$	148,089	$	206,893

Cash and cash equivalents - The fair value of cash and cash equivalents approximates its carrying value.

Convertible notes -The fair value of the 5% Convertible Notes is based on the market price in the open market as of or close to the respective dates. The difference between the carrying value and the fair value is primarily due to the spread between the conversion price and the market value of the shares underlying the conversion.

Long-term debt - The fair value of long-term debt is determined by discounting the contractual cash flows at the current rates charged for similar debt instruments.

Available for sale minority investment - The fair value of minority investment is based on the sales price of the equity security listed on a foreign stock exchange.

     The Company has not estimated the fair value of its minority investments in three privately held companies as it is not practicable to estimate the fair value of these investments because of the lack of a quoted market price and the inability to estimate fair value without incurring excessive costs. As of January 30, 2011, the carrying value of the Company's minority investments in these three privately held companies was $12.3 million, which management believes is not impaired.

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14. Stockholders' Equity

Common Stock Offering

On December 27, 2010, the Company completed the sale of 4,140,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the underwriter of $28.54 per share. Net proceeds to the Company after deducting offering expenses were $117.9 million.

Stock-based Compensation Expense Information

The following table summarizes stock-based compensation expense related to employee stock options and employee stock purchases for the three and nine months ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010 which was reflected in the Company's operating results (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010		January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010
Cost of revenues	$	1,305	$	909	$	3,361	$	3,228
Research and development	1,540		1,364		4,279		4,375
Sales and marketing	519		463		1,497		1,472
General and administrative	1,158		776		3,590		2,540
Total	$	4,522	$	3,512	$	12,727	$	11,615

The total stock-based compensation capitalized as part of inventory as of January 30, 2011 was $732,423.

     During the three months ended January 30, 2011, 343,402 shares of common stock were issued under the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan and options to purchase 1,400,415 shares of common stock were exercised. During nine months ended January 30, 2011, 698,982 shares of common stock were issued under the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan and options to purchase 2,266,948 shares of common stock were exercised. The number of restricted stock units issued during the three and nine months ended January 30, 2011 were 170,988 and 303,372, respectively.

As of January 30, 2011, total compensation expense, net of estimated forfeitures, related to unvested stock options and restricted stock units not yet recognized was approximately $24.1 million which is expected to be recognized over the succeeding 38 months.

15. Income Taxes

      The Company recorded a provision for income taxes of $1.2 million and $421,000, respectively, for the three months ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010 and $3.8 million and $618,000, respectively, for the nine months ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010. The income tax provision for the three and nine months ended January 30, 2011 includes state taxes and income taxes arising in certain foreign jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business. The income tax provision for the three and nine months ended January 31, 2010 includes minimum state taxes and income taxes arising in certain foreign jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business.

     The Company records a valuation allowance against its deferred tax assets for each period in which management concludes that it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Realization of the Company's net deferred tax assets is dependent upon future taxable income, the amount and timing of which are uncertain. Accordingly, substantially all of the Company's net deferred tax assets as of January 30, 2011 have been fully offset by a valuation allowance.

     Utilization of the Company's net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards may be subject to a substantial annual limitation due to the ownership change limitations set forth by Internal Revenue Code Sections 382 and 383 and similar state provisions. Such an annual limitation could result in the expiration of the net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards before full utilization.

     The Company's total gross unrecognized tax benefits as of April 30, 2010 and January 30, 2011 were $12.6 million and

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$12.8 million, respectively. Excluding the effects of recorded valuation allowances for deferred tax assets, $10.8 million of the unrecognized tax benefits would favorably impact the effective tax rate in future periods if recognized.

     Due to the Company's taxable loss position in previous years, all tax years since inception are subject to examination in the U.S. and state jurisdictions. The Company is also subject to examinations in various foreign jurisdictions, none of which were individually material. It is the Company's belief that no significant changes in the unrecognized tax benefit positions will occur through April 30, 2011.

     The Company records interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in income tax expense. At January 30, 2011, there were no accrued interest or penalties related to uncertain tax positions. The Company recorded no interest or penalties for the three and nine months ended January 30, 2011.

16. Segment and Geographic Information

     The Company has one reportable segment consisting of optical subsystems and components. Optical subsystems consist primarily of transceivers sold to manufacturers of storage and networking equipment for SANs and LANs and MAN applications. Optical subsystems also include multiplexers, de-multiplexers and optical add/drop modules for use in MAN applications. Optical components consist primarily of packaged lasers and photodetectors which are incorporated in transceivers, primarily for LAN and SAN applications.

     The following table sets forth revenues by geographic areas based on the location of the entity purchasing the Company's products (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010		January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010
Revenues from sales to unaffiliated customers:
United States	$	73,327	$	61,685	$	209,309	$	165,616
Malaysia	44,616		33,738		119,416		81,757
China	71,887		22,503		169,254		57,707
Rest of the world	73,186		49,009		213,862		136,310
	$	263,016	$	166,935	$	711,841	$	441,390

  Revenues generated in the United States are all from sales to customers located in the United States.

     The following is a summary of long-lived assets within geographic areas based on the location of the assets (in thousands):

	January 30, 2011		April 30, 2010
Long-lived assets:
United States	$	76,361	$	70,975
Malaysia	40,018		35,575
China	18,666		10,962
Rest of the world	18,979		13,003
	$	154,024	$	130,515

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17. Restructuring Charges

      As of January 30, 2011, $4.2 million of non-cancelable facilities payments related to the abandoned and unused portion of the Company's facility in Allen, Texas remained accrued as restructuring reserve.

     The following table summarizes the activities of the restructuring accrual during the first nine months of fiscal 2011 (in thousands):

Balance as of April 30, 2010	$	4,664
Charges	—
Cash payments	(512		)
Balance as of January 30, 2011	$	4,152

Of the $4.2 million of remaining accrual, $289,866 is expected to be paid in the next twelve months and $3.9 million is expected to be paid out from fiscal 2012 through fiscal 2020.

18. Litigation Settlements

 In November 2009, following trial in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ("the Court"), Optium Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, was found liable for patent infringement. As a result the Court awarded the plaintiffs, JDSU and Emcore Corporation, approximately $3.4 million in damages plus interest. The judgment was with respect to complaints filed on September 11, 2006 and March 14, 2007 by JDSU and Emcore alleging that certain cable television transmission products sold by Optium infringed certain U.S. patents. The Company appealed the judgment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. On January 26, 2011, the Federal Circuit affirmed the judgment. A petition for rehearing has been filed. Nevertheless, because of the historically low percentage of requests for rehearing that are granted by the Federal Circuit, the Company has recorded a charge for the judgment of approximately $3.5 million as general and administrative expense.

On September 10, 2010, the Company entered into a settlement and cross license agreement with Source Photonics, Inc., resolving a lawsuit that the Company had filed on January 5, 2010, alleging that certain optoelectronic transceivers from Source Photonics, Inc. infringed eleven Finisar patents. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Source Photonics paid a license fee to Finisar in the amount of $14.5 million for a fully paid-up license to Finisar's digital diagnostics and transceiver module patents through December 31, 2015. Payment in full was made by September 30, 2010. The Company determined that $5.6 million of this settlement amount was attributable to past damages, and that amount was recorded as an offset to general and administrative expenses upon receipt. The remaining $8.9 million was accounted for as deferred revenue and will be recognized as license revenue ratably over the remaining license term through December 31, 2015. During the second quarter of fiscal 2011 the Company incurred contingent and other legal fees of $3.2 million in connection with the settlement of this litigation which were recorded as general and administrative expense.

19. Pending Litigation

Oplink/OCP Patent Litigations

On December 10, 2010, the Company filed a complaint for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleges that certain optoelectronic transceivers from Oplink Communications, Inc. and Optical Communication Products Inc. (OCP) infringe eleven Finisar patents. OCP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oplink. The complaint asks the Court to enter judgment (a) that the defendants have infringed, actively induced infringement of, and/or contributorily infringed the patents-in-suit, (b) preliminarily and permanently enjoining the defendants from further infringement of the patents-in-suit, or, to the extent not so enjoined, ordering the defendants to pay compulsory ongoing royalties for any continuing infringement of the patents-in-suit, (c) ordering that the defendants account, and pay actual damages (but no less than a reasonable royalty), to the Company for the defendants' infringement of the patents-in-suit, (d) declaring that the defendants are willfully infringing one or more of the patents-in-suit and ordering that the defendants pay treble damages to the Company, (e) ordering that the defendants pay the Company's costs, expenses, and interest, including prejudgment interest, (f) declaring that this is an exceptional case and awarding the Company its attorneys' fees and expenses, and (g) granting such other and further

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relief as the Court deems just and appropriate, or that the Company may be entitled to as a matter of law or equity.

On March 7, 2011, OCP filed a complaint for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The complaint alleges that certain vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) and active optical cables manufactured and sold by the Company infringe five OCP patents. The complaint asks the Court to enter judgment (a) holding Finisar liable for infringement of the asserted patents, (b) that the Company account for damages resulting from its infringement of the patents, together with pre-judgment and post-judgment interest, (c) preliminarily and permanently enjoining the Company from further infringement of the asserted patents, (d) holding the case to an exceptional case, and an award to OCP for its attorneys' fees and costs, and (g) granting such other relief as the Court deems just and equitable. The Company is evaluating the complaint and intends to defend the lawsuit vigorously. However, there can be no assurance that it will be successful in its defense. Even if the Company is successful, it may incur substantial legal fees and other costs in defending the lawsuit. Further, the lawsuit could divert the efforts and attention of the Company's management and technical personnel, which could harm its business.

Stock Option Derivative Litigation

     On November 30, 2006, the Company announced that it had undertaken a voluntary review of its historical stock option

grant practices subsequent to its initial public offering in November 1999. The review was initiated by senior management, and preliminary results of the review were discussed with the Audit Committee of the Company's board of directors. Based on the preliminary results of the review, senior management concluded, and the Audit Committee agreed, that it was likely that the measurement dates for certain stock option grants differed from the recorded grant dates for such awards and that the Company would likely need to restate its historical financial statements to record non-cash charges for compensation expense relating to some past stock option grants. The Audit Committee thereafter conducted a further investigation and engaged independent legal counsel and financial advisors to assist in that investigation. The Audit Committee concluded that measurement dates for certain option grants differed from the recorded grant dates for such awards. The Company's management, in conjunction with the Audit Committee, conducted a further review to finalize revised measurement dates and determine the appropriate accounting adjustments to its historical financial statements. The announcement of the investigation resulted in delays in filing the Company's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended October 29, 2006, January 28, 2007, and January 27, 2008, and the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2007. On December 4, 2007, the Company filed all four of these reports which included revised financial statements.

     Following the Company's announcement on November 30, 2006 that the Audit Committee of the board of directors had voluntarily commenced an investigation of the Company's historical stock option grant practices, the Company was named as a nominal defendant in several shareholder derivative cases. These cases have been consolidated into two proceedings pending in federal and state courts in California. The federal court cases have been consolidated in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The state court cases have been consolidated in the Superior Court of California for the County of Santa Clara. The plaintiffs in all cases have alleged that certain of the Company's current or former officers and directors caused the Company to grant stock options at less than fair market value, contrary to the Company's public statements (including its financial statements), and that, as a result, those officers and directors are liable to the Company. No specific amount of damages has been alleged, and by the nature of the lawsuits, no damages will be alleged against the Company. On May 22, 2007, the state court granted the Company's motion to stay the state court action pending resolution of the consolidated federal court action. On June 12, 2007, the plaintiffs in the federal court case filed an amended complaint to reflect the results of the stock option investigation announced by the Audit Committee in June 2007. On August 28, 2007, the Company and the individual defendants filed motions to dismiss the complaint. On January 11, 2008, the Court granted the motions to dismiss, with leave to amend. On May 12, 2008, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint. The Company and the individual defendants filed motions to dismiss the amended complaint on July 1, 2008. The Court granted the motions to dismiss on September 22, 2009, and entered judgment in favor of the defendants. The plaintiffs have appealed the judgment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Oral argument in the case occured December 10, 2010.

Securities Class Action

     A securities class action lawsuit was filed on November 30, 2001 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, purportedly on behalf of all persons who purchased the Company's common stock from November 17, 1999 through December 6, 2000. The complaint named as defendants the Company, Jerry S. Rawls, its President and Chief Executive Officer, Frank H. Levinson, its former Chairman of the Board and Chief Technical Officer, Stephen K. Workman, its former Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Investor Relations and its former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and an investment banking firm that served as an underwriter for the Company's initial public offering in November 1999 and a secondary offering in April 2000. The complaint, as subsequently amended, alleges violations of Sections 11 and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 10(b) and 20(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, on the

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grounds that the prospectuses incorporated in the registration statements for the offerings failed to disclose, among other things, that (i) the underwriter had solicited and received excessive and undisclosed commissions from certain investors in exchange for which the underwriter allocated to those investors material portions of the shares of the Company's stock sold in the offerings and (ii) the underwriter had entered into agreements with customers whereby the underwriter agreed to allocate shares of the Company's stock sold in the offerings to those customers in exchange for which the customers agreed to purchase additional shares of the Company's stock in the after market at pre-determined prices. No specific damages are claimed. Similar allegations have been made in lawsuits relating to more than 300 other initial public offerings conducted in 1999 and 2000, which were consolidated for pretrial purposes. In October 2002, all claims against the individual defendants were dismissed without prejudice. On February 19, 2003, the Court denied defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint.

     In February 2009, the parties reached an understanding regarding the principal elements of a settlement, subject to formal documentation and Court approval. Under the settlement, the underwriter defendants will pay a total of $486 million, and the issuer defendants and their insurers will pay a total of $100 million to settle all of the cases. On August 25, 2009, the Company funded approximately $327,000 with respect to its pro rata share of the issuers' contribution to the settlement and certain costs. This amount was accrued in the Company's consolidated financial statements during the first quarter of fiscal 2010. On October 2, 2009, the Court granted approval of the settlement and on November 19, 2009 the Court entered final judgment. The judgment has been appealed by certain individual class members.

Section 16(b) Lawsuit

     A lawsuit was filed on October 3, 2007 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington by Vanessa Simmonds, a purported holder of the Company's common stock, against two investment banking firms that served as underwriters for the initial public offering of the Company's common stock in November 1999. None of the Company's officers, directors or employees were named as defendants in the complaint. On February 28, 2008, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint. The complaint, as amended, alleges that: (i) the defendants, other underwriters of the offering, and unspecified officers, directors and the Company's principal shareholders constituted a “group” that owned in excess of 10% of the Company's outstanding common stock between November 11, 1999 and November 20, 2000; (ii) the defendants were therefore subject to the “short swing” prohibitions of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and (iii) the defendants engaged in purchases and sales, or sales and purchases, of the Company's common stock within periods of less than six months in violation of the provisions of Section 16(b). The complaint seeks disgorgement of all profits allegedly received by the defendants, with interest and attorneys fees, for transactions in violation of Section 16(b). The Company, as the statutory beneficiary of any potential Section 16(b) recovery, is named as a nominal defendant in the complaint.

     This case is one of 54 lawsuits containing similar allegations relating to initial public offerings of technology company issuers, which were coordinated (but not consolidated) by the District Court. On July 25, 2008, the real defendants in all 54 cases filed a consolidated motion to dismiss, and a majority of the nominal defendants (including the Company) filed a consolidated motion to dismiss, the amended complaints. On March 19, 2009, the District Court dismissed the amended complaints naming the nominal defendants that had moved to dismiss, without prejudice, because the plaintiff had not properly demanded action by their respective boards of directors before filing suit; and dismissed the amended complaints naming nominal defendants that had not moved to dismiss, with prejudice, finding the claims time-barred by the applicable statute of limitation. Also on March 19, 2009, the District Court entered judgment against the plaintiff in all 54 cases. The plaintiff appealed the order and judgments. The real defendants cross-appealed the dismissal of certain amended complaints without prejudice, contending that dismissal should have been with prejudice because the amended complaints are barred by the applicable statute of limitation. On December 2, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the District Court's dismissal and further ruled that the dismissal is with prejudice. The plaintiff has indicated its intention to file a writ of certiorari seeking review by the United States Supreme Court.

Export Compliance

     During mid-2007, Optium became aware that certain of its analog RF over fiber products may, depending on end use and customization, be subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, or ITAR. Accordingly, Optium filed a detailed voluntary disclosure with the United States Department of State describing the details of possible inadvertent ITAR violations with respect to the export of a limited number of certain prototype products, as well as related technical data and defense services. Optium may have also made unauthorized transfers of ITAR-restricted technical data and defense services to foreign persons in the workplace. Additional information was provided upon request to the Department of State with respect to this matter. In late 2008, a grand jury subpoena from the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania was received requesting documents from 2005 through the present referring to, relating to or involving the subject matter of the above referenced voluntary disclosure and export activities.

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On December 17, 2010, the Company received a letter from the Department of State advising the Company that its inquiry into the events that were the subject of the voluntary disclosure was complete and that its inquiry was being closed without further action. Subsequent to receipt of this letter, the Company was informed orally that the U.S. Attorney's office had concluded and closed its grand jury investigation of the matter.

Other Litigation

     In the ordinary course of business, the Company is a party to litigation, claims and assessments in addition to those described above. Based on information currently available, management does not believe the impact of these other matters will have a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows of the Company.

20. Guarantees and Indemnifications

     Upon issuance of a guarantee, the guarantor must recognize a liability for the fair value of the obligations it assumes under that guarantee. As permitted under Delaware law and in accordance with the Company's Bylaws, the Company indemnifies its officers and directors for certain events or occurrences, subject to certain limits, while the officer or director is or was serving at the Company's request in such capacity. The term of the indemnification period is for the officer's or director's lifetime. The Company may terminate the indemnification agreements with its officers and directors upon 90 days written notice, but termination will not affect claims for indemnification relating to events occurring prior to the effective date of termination. The maximum amount of potential future indemnification is unlimited; however, the Company has a director and officer liability insurance policy that may enable it to recover a portion of any future amounts paid.

     The Company enters into indemnification obligations under its agreements with other companies in its ordinary course of business, including agreements with customers, business partners, and insurers. Under these provisions the Company generally indemnifies and holds harmless the indemnified party for losses suffered or incurred by the indemnified party as a result of the Company's activities or the use of the Company's products. These indemnification provisions generally survive termination of the underlying agreement. In some cases, the maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under these indemnification provisions is unlimited.

     The Company believes the fair value of these indemnification agreements is minimal. Accordingly, the Company has not recorded any liabilities for these agreements as of January 30, 2011. To date, the Company has not incurred material costs to defend lawsuits or settle claims related to these indemnification agreements.

21. Related Party Transaction

     During the three and nine months ended January 30, 2011, the Company paid $46,900 and $134,900, respectively, in cash compensation to a company owned by Guy Gertel, the brother of the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, for sales and marketing services. In addition, the Company granted to Mr. Gertel, for no additional consideration, 2,150 restricted stock units with a fair market value of $33,841, which vest as follows: 25% on June 23, 2011 and an additional 25% on each of the next 3 anniversaries thereafter, to be fully vested on June, 2014, subject to him continuing to provide services to Finisar. During the three and nine months ended January 31, 2010, the Company paid Mr. Gertel's company $41,000 and $116,500, respectively, in cash compensation. The amounts paid to Mr. Gertel represented values considered by management to be fair and reasonable, reflective of an arm's length transaction.

22. Subsequent Events

In February 2011, the Company entered into privately-negotiated agreements with existing holders of the Company’s 5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029, to exchange an aggregate of $17.8 million principal amount of notes for a total of 1,670,724 shares of the Company’s common stock, based on the conversion price of the notes of $10.68 per share, plus 74,932 additional shares, including 7,875 shares issued in payment of accrued and unpaid interest of $281,675. Following these exchanges, $40.0 million of principal amount of the notes remained outstanding. The Company will recognize debt conversion inducement expense of $2.4 million on these exchanges in the quarter ending April 30, 2011.

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Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

    This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We use words like “anticipates,” “believes,” “plans,” “expects,” “future,” “intends” and similar expressions to identify these forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events; however, our business and operations are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, and, consequently, actual results may materially differ from those projected by any forward-looking statements. As a result, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements since they may not occur.

   Certain factors that could cause actual results to differ from those projected are discussed in “Item 1A. Risk Factors.” We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events.

The following discussion should be read together with our condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto included elsewhere in this report.

Business Overview

   We are a leading provider of optical subsystems and components that are used to interconnect equipment in short-distance local area networks, or LANs, and storage area networks, or SANs, and longer distance metropolitan area networks, or MANs, fiber-to-the-home networks, or FTTx, cable television, or CATV, networks and wide area networks, or WANs. Our optical subsystems consist primarily of transmitters, receivers, transceivers and transponders which provide the fundamental optical-electrical interface for connecting the equipment used in building these networks, including switches, routers and file servers used in wireline networks as well as antennas and base stations for wireless networks. These products rely on the use of semiconductor lasers and photodetectors in conjunction with integrated circuit design and novel packaging technology to provide a cost-effective means for transmitting and receiving digital signals over fiber optic cable at speeds ranging from less than 1 gigabit per second, or Gbps, to 100Gbps, using a wide range of network protocols and physical configurations over distances of 70 meters to 200 kilometers. We supply optical transceivers and transponders that allow point-to-point communications on a fiber using a single specified wavelength or, bundled with multiplexing technologies, can be used to supply multi-gigabit bandwidth over several wavelengths on the same fiber. We also provide products known as wavelength selective switches, or WSS, that are used for dynamically switching network traffic from one optical wavelength to another across multiple wavelengths without first converting to an electrical signal. These products are sometimes combined with other components and sold as linecards, also known as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, or ROADMs. Our line of optical components consists primarily of packaged lasers and photodetectors used in transceivers, primarily for LAN and SAN applications, and passive optical components used in building MANs. Demand for our products is largely driven by the continually growing need for additional bandwidth created by the ongoing proliferation of data and video traffic that must be handled by both wireline and wireless networks.

     Our manufacturing operations are vertically integrated and we produce many of the key components used in making our products including lasers, photodetectors and integrated circuits, or ICs, designed by our own internal IC engineering teams. We also have internal assembly and test capabilities that make use of internally designed equipment for the automated testing of our optical subsystems and components.

     We sell our optical products to manufacturers of storage systems, networking equipment and telecommunication equipment such as Alcatel-Lucent, Brocade, Cisco Systems, EMC, Emulex, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard Company, Huawei, IBM, Juniper, Qlogic, Siemens and Tellabs, and to their contract manufacturers. These customers, in turn, sell their systems to businesses and to wireline and wireless telecommunications service providers and CATV operators, collectively referred to as carriers.

Recent Developments

Common Stock Offering

     On December 27, 2010, we completed the sale of 4,140,000 shares of our common stock at a price to the underwriter of $28.54 per share. Net proceeds to us after deducting offering expenses were $117.9 million.

Private Exchange of Convertible Notes

     In January 2011, we entered into privately-negotiated agreements with existing holders of our 5% Convertible Senior Notes due

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2029 to exchange an aggregate of approximately $42.2 million principal amount of the notes for a total of approximately 3.9 million shares of our common stock, based on the conversion price of the notes of $10.68 per share, plus 188,496 additional shares, including 16,202 shares issued in payment of accrued and unpaid interest of $558,997. Following these exchanges, as of January 30, 2011, approximately $57.9 million aggregate principal amount of the notes remained outstanding. During the three months period ended January 30, 2011, we recognized debt conversion inducement expense of $5.9 million on these exchanges, representing the fair value of the shares issued in excess of the number of shares issuable in accordance with the original conversion terms of the notes. This debt conversion expense compares to $7.9 million of interest expense that would have been payable with respect to the $42.2 million in exchanged notes through their first maturity date in October 2014 had such notes not been exchanged. This amount was recorded as general and administrative expense.

In February 2011, we entered into privately-negotiated agreements with existing holders of the Company’s 5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029, to exchange an aggregate of $17.8 million principal amount of notes for a total of approximately 1,670,724 shares of our common stock, based on the conversion price of the notes of $10.68 per share, plus 74,932 additional shares, including 7,875 shares issued in payment of accrued and unpaid interest of $281,675. As a result, we will recognize debt conversion inducement expense of $2.4 million on these exchanges in the quarter ending April 30, 2011. Following these exchanges, $40.0 million of principal amount of the notes remained outstanding.

Repayment of Long-term debt

In the third quarter of fiscal 2011, we repaid in full the remaining principal amounts outstanding of our Malaysian and Chinese bank loans. The principal balance outstanding under these loans as of the end of second quarter of fiscal 2011 was $11.8 million and $5.5 million, respectively.

Litigation Settlements

In November 2009, following trial in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ("the Court"), Optium Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Finisar, was found liable for patent infringement. As a result, the Court awarded the plaintiffs, JDSU and Emcore Corporations, approximately $3.4 million in damages plus interest. The judgment was with respect to complaints filed on September 11, 2006 and March 14, 2007 by JDSU and Emcore alleging that certain cable television transmission products sold by Optium infringed certain U.S. patents. We appealed this judgment to the Unites States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. On January 26, 2011, the Federal Circuit affirmed the judgment. A petition for rehearing has been filed. Nevertheless, because of the historically low percentage of requests for rehearing that are granted by the Federal Circuit, we have recorded a charge for the judgment of approximately $3.5 million as general and administrative expense in the quarterly period ended January 30, 2011.

On September 10, 2010, we entered into a settlement and cross license agreement with Source Photonics, Inc., resolving a lawsuit that we had filed on January 5, 2010, alleging that certain optoelectronic transceivers from Source Photonics, Inc. infringed eleven of our patents. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Source Photonics paid a license fee to us in the amount of $14.5 million for a fully paid-up license to our digital diagnostics and transceiver module patents through December 31, 2015. Payment in full was made by September 30, 2010. We determined that $5.6 million of this settlement amount was attributable to past damages, and that amount was recorded as a reduction to general and administrative expenses upon receipt. The remaining $8.9 million was accounted as deferred revenue and will be recognized as license revenue ratably over the remaining license term through December 31, 2015. During the quarter ended October 31, 2010 we incurred $3.2 million in contingent and other legal fees in connection with the settlement of this litigation which was recorded as general and administrative expense.

Minority Investment

In September 2010, we invested $5.9 million in a publicly held foreign company for strategic reasons. This investment was classified as an available for sale minority investment and is accounted for as a minority investment on our balance sheet as of January 30, 2011.

Critical Accounting Policies

     The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make judgments, estimates and assumptions in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates. We believe there have been no significant changes in our critical accounting policies as discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2010.

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Results of Operations

     The following table sets forth certain statement of operations data as a percentage of revenues for the periods indicated:

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010		January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010
Revenues	100.0	%	100.0	%	100.0	%	100.0	%
Cost of revenues	67.6		68.3		66.2		71.8
Amortization of acquired developed technology	0.4		0.7		0.5		0.8
Gross profit	32.0		31.0		33.3		27.4
Operating expenses:
Research and development	11.3		14.9		11.9		15.3
Sales and marketing	3.4		4.7		3.8		5.0
General and administrative	7.8		5.6		5.6		6.1
Restructuring charges	—		—		—		0.9
Amortization of purchased intangibles	0.1		0.3		0.2		0.4
Total operating expenses	22.6		25.5		21.5		27.7
Income (loss) from operations	9.4		5.5		11.8		(0.3	)
Interest income	0.1		0.1		0.1		0.0
Interest expense	(0.6	)	(1.3	)	(0.8	)	(1.6	)
Loss on debt extinguishment	—		0.0		—		(5.7	)
Other income (expense), net	(1.3	)	(0.6	)	(0.5	)	(0.7	)
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes	7.6		3.7		10.6		(8.3	)
Provision for income taxes	0.4		0.3		0.5		0.1
Income (loss) from continuing operations	7.2		3.4		10.1		(8.4	)
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income taxes	—		(0.1	)	(0.0	)	8.4
Net income (loss)	7.2	%	3.3	%	10.1	%	(0.0	)%

Revenues. Revenues increased $96.1 million, or 57.6%, to $263.0 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to $166.9 million in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. Revenues increased $270.5 million, or 61.3%, to $711.8 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $441.4 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. These increases reflect the impact of a combination of factors including increased spending on infrastructure by business enterprises and telecommunications companies as they respond to the ongoing growth in bandwidth through their networks as well as improvement in general economic conditions that contributed to an increase in information technology infrastructure spending. Additionally, we believe that we achieved an increase in our market share, particularly for higher speed products, due in part to the qualification of several products for higher speed applications at certain customers and our entry into new markets.

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The following table sets forth the changes in revenues by product category (in thousands):

	Three months ended
	January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010		Change			% Change
Transceivers, transponders and components
Greater than 10 Gbps:
LAN/SAN	$	39,920	$	25,665	$	14,255		55.5	%
Metro/Telecom	77,789		41,708		36,081			86.5
Subtotal	117,709		67,373		50,336			74.7
Less than 10 Gbps:
LAN/SAN	60,569		48,496		12,073			24.9
Metro/Telecom	33,206		26,098		7,108			27.2
Subtotal	93,775		74,594		19,181			25.7
Total transceivers, transponders and components	211,484		141,967		69,517			49.0
ROADM linecards and WSS modules	47,640		19,140		28,500			148.9
CATV	3,892		5,828		(1,936		)	(33.2	)
Total revenues	$	263,016	$	166,935	$	96,081		57.6	%

	Nine Months Ended
	January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010		Change			% Change
Transceivers, transponders & components
Greater than 10 Gbps:
LAN/SAN	$	107,744	$	55,605	$	52,139		93.8	%
Metro/Telecom	211,366		118,986		92,380			77.6
Subtotal	319,110		174,591		144,519			82.8
Less than 10 Gbps:
LAN/SAN	167,768		129,446		38,322			29.6
Metro/Telecom	96,223		77,169		19,054			24.7
Subtotal	263,991		206,615		57,376			27.8
Total transceivers, transponders & components	583,101		381,206		201,895			53.0
ROADM linecards and WSS modules	116,928		45,549		71,379			156.7
CATV	11,812		14,635		(2,823		)	(19.3	)
Total revenues	$	711,841	$	441,390	$	270,451		61.3	%

Amortization of Acquired Developed Technology. Amortization of acquired developed technology, a component of cost of revenues, was $1.2 million each in the quarters ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010 and $3.6 million each in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010.

Gross Profit. Gross profit increased $32.4 million, or 62.6%, to $84.1 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to $51.7 million in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. Gross profit as a percentage of revenues increased by 1.0%, from 31.0% in the quarter ended January 31, 2010 to 32.0% in the quarter ended January 30, 2011. We recorded charges of $6.9 million for obsolete and excess inventory in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to $4.1 million in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. We sold inventory that was written-off in previous periods resulting in a benefit of $3.1 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 and $4.3 million in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. As a result, we recognized a net charge of $3.8 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to a net credit of $200,000 in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. Manufacturing overhead included stock-based compensation charges of $1.3 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 and $909,000 in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. Excluding amortization of acquired developed technology, the net impact of excess and obsolete inventory charges and stock-based compensation charges, gross profit would have been $90.4 million, or 34.4% of revenues, in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to $53.6 million, or 32.1% of revenues, in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. The

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increase in gross margin primarily reflects the benefits of higher manufacturing unit volume and the increase in sales of higher margin high speed components and ROADM products, partially offset by the unfavorable impact of lower pricing on some products. Manufacturing overhead costs in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 increased by 45% compared to the quarter ended January 31, 2010, whereas the increase in revenues was 58% in the same period, primarily due to higher utilization of fixed manufacturing capacity.

Gross profit increased $116.5 million or 96.3%, to $237.4 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $120.9 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. Gross profit as a percentage of revenues increased by 6.0%, from 27.4% in the nine months ended January 31, 2010 to 33.3% in the nine months ended January 30, 2011. We recorded charges of $13.5 million for obsolete and excess inventory in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $18.9 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. We sold inventory that was written-off in previous periods resulting in a benefit of $9.5 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 and $11.4 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. As a result, we recognized a net charge of $4.0 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $7.5 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. Manufacturing overhead includes stock-based compensation charges of $3.4 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 and $3.2 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. Excluding amortization of acquired developed technology, the net impact of excess and obsolete inventory charges and stock-based compensation charges, gross profit would have been $248.3 million, or 34.9% of revenues, in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $135.2 million, or 30.6% of revenues, in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. The increase in gross margin primarily reflects the benefits of higher manufacturing unit volume and the increase in sales of higher margin high speed components and ROADM products, partially offset by the unfavorable impact of lower pricing on some products. Manufacturing overhead costs in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 increased by 43% compared to the nine months ended January 31, 2010 whereas the increase in revenues was 61% in the same period, primarily due to higher utilization of fixed manufacturing capacity.

Research and Development Expenses. Research and development expenses increased $4.7 million, or 18.9%, to $29.6 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to $24.9 million in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. The increase was due to increases in employee related expenses and costs of materials associated with new product development. Included in research and development expenses were stock-based compensation charges of $1.5 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 and $1.4 million in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. Research and development expenses as a percent of revenues decreased to 11.3% in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to 14.9% in the quarter ended January 31, 2010.

Research and development expenses increased $16.9 million, or 25.0%, to $84.4 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $67.5 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. The increase was due to increases in employee related expenses and costs of materials associated with new product development. Included in research and development expenses were stock-based compensation charges of $4.3 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 and $4.4 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. Research and development expenses as a percent of revenues decreased to 11.9% in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to 15.3% in the nine months ended January 31, 2010.

Sales and Marketing Expenses. Sales and marketing expenses increased $896,000, or 11.3%, to $8.8 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to $7.9 million in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. The increase was primarily due to increased sales commissions as a result of the increase in revenues. Included in sales and marketing expenses were stock-based compensation charges of $519,000 in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 and $463,000 in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. Sales and marketing expenses as a percent of revenues decreased to 3.4% in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to 4.7% in the quarter ended January 31, 2010.

Sales and marketing expenses increased $5.1 million, or 23.1%, to $27.1 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $22.1 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. The increase was primarily due to increased sales commissions as a result of the increase in revenues. The increase was also partly due to an increase in employee related expenses. Included in sales and marketing expenses were stock-based compensation charges of $1.5 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 and $1.5 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. Sales and marketing expenses as a percent of revenues decreased to 3.8% in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to 5.0% in the nine months ended January 31, 2010.

General and Administrative Expenses. General and administrative expenses increased $11.3 million, or 120.9%, to $20.6 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to $9.3 million in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. The increase was primarily due to an accrual of $3.5 million for damages payable as a result of an appellate court's ruling affirming an unfavorable judgment in a patent infringement lawsuit, $5.9 million of debt conversion inducement expenses recorded on the exchange of approximately $42.2 million principal amount of our outstanding convertible notes and an increase in personnel related costs. Included in general and administrative expenses were stock-based compensation charges of $1.2 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 and $776,000 in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. General and administrative expenses as a percent of

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revenues increased to 7.8% in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to 5.6% in the quarter ended January 31, 2010.

General and administrative expenses increased $13.1 million, or 48.2%, to $40.2 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $27.1 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. The increase was primarily due to the $3.5 million accrual for damages and the $5.9 million of debt conversion inducement expenses described above, and an increase in personnel related costs, partially offset by $2.4 million of litigation settlement income net of legal costs associated with the litigation settlement with Source Photonics Inc. Included in general and administrative expenses were stock-based compensation charges of $3.6 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 and $2.5 million in the six months ended January 31, 2010. General and administrative expenses as a percent of revenues decreased to 5.6% in the nine months January 30, 2011 compared to 6.1% in the nine months ended January 31, 2010.

Restructuring Costs. As a result of moving certain manufacturing activities from our facility in Allen, Texas to our lower cost manufacturing facility in Ipoh, Malaysia, we determined that approximately 32% of the space in the Allen facility was no longer required for manufacturing. As a result, we closed that portion of the facility in the quarter ended November 1, 2009 and recorded a restructuring charge of $4.2 million in the quarter ended November 1, 2009 which represented the present value of the lease payments allocable to that portion of the facility that we are obligated to pay over the remaining lease term.

Amortization of Purchased Intangibles. Amortization of purchased intangibles decreased $43,000, or 10.1%, to $383,000 in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to $426,000 in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. The decrease was primarily due to the full amortization of certain intangibles acquired in connection with the purchase of assets from Infineon Technologies AG in fiscal 2005.

Amortization of purchased intangibles decreased $496,000, or 30.2%, to $1,149,000 in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $1.6 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. The decrease was primarily due to the full amortization of certain intangibles acquired in the Optium merger in fiscal 2009.

Interest Income. Interest income increased $119,000 to $204,000 in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to $85,000 in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. The increase was primarily due to an increase in our cash balances reflecting the receipt of $131.1 million in net proceeds from our common stock offering in March 2010 and $117.9 million in net proceeds from our common stock offering in December 2010.

Interest income increased $335,000 to $439,000 in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $104,000 in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. The increase was primarily due to an increase in our cash balances reflecting the receipt of $131.1 million in net proceeds from our common stock offering in March 2010 and $117.9 million in net proceeds from our common stock offering in December 2010.

Interest Expense. Interest expense decreased $776,000, or 34.6%, to $1.5 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to $2.2 million in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. The decrease was primarily related to lower outstanding debt due to repayment of $3.9 million aggregate principal amount of our 2 1/2% Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2010 and $25.7 million principal amount of our 2 1/2% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2010 in the second quarter of fiscal 2011 and repayment of the $2.6 million remaining balance of a loan in the third quarter of fiscal 2010. Interest expense for the quarter ended January 30, 2011 included $1.2 million related to our 5% Convertible Subordinated Notes due October 2029 and $260,000 related to various other debt instruments. Interest expense for the quarter ended January 31, 2010 included $1.2 million related to our 5% Convertible Subordinated Notes due October 2029, $190,000 related to our convertible subordinated notes which were fully repaid in October 2010, $400,000 related to various other debt instruments and a non-cash charge of $383,000 due to the accretion of the original issue discount related to our senior convertible notes.

Interest expense decreased $1.1 million, or 16.7%, to $5.7 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $6.8 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. The decrease was primarily related to lower outstanding debt due to repayment of $47.5 million principal amount of our 2 1/2% Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2010 and our 2 1/2% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2010 pursuant to exchange offers in the second quarter of fiscal 2010, repurchases of $13.0 million principal amount of our 2 1/2% Convertible Subordinated Notes and $51.9 million of our 2 1/2% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes in the second quarter of fiscal 2010 and repayment of $3.9 million principal amount of our 2 1/2% Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2010 and $25.7 million principal amount of our 2 1/2% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2010 in the second quarter of fiscal 2011. Interest expense for the nine months ended January 30, 2011 included $3.7 million related to our 5% Convertible Subordinated Notes due October 2029, $1.2 million related to various other debt instruments and a non-cash charge of $742,000 due to accretion of the original issue discount created by the conversion option in the 2.5% Senior Subordinated Convertible Notes, as interest expense over the term of the instrument using the interest method. Interest expense for the nine months ended January 31, 2010 included $1.8 million related to our convertible subordinated notes which were fully repaid in

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October 2010 and a non-cash charge of $2.7 million related to the accounting for our senior convertible notes.

Loss on Debt Extinguishment. On August 11, 2009, we retired $33.1million principal amount of our 2 1/2% Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2010 and $14.4 million principal amount of our 2 1/2% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2010 pursuant to exchange offers which commenced on July 9, 2009. The consideration for the exchange consisted of (i) $525 in cash and (ii) 596 shares of the Company's common stock per $1,000 principal amount of notes. We issued approximately 3.5 million shares of common stock and paid out approximately $24.9 million in cash to the former holders of notes in the exchange offers. The total consideration paid in the exchange was approximately $4.7 million less than the par value of the notes retired. However, in accordance with the provisions of ASC 470-20, this exchange was considered an induced conversion and the retirement of the notes was accounted for as if they had been converted according to their original terms, with that value compared to the fair value of the consideration paid in the exchange offers. The original conversion price of the notes was $30.08 per share. Accordingly, although the trading price of our common stock was $5.04 at the time of the exchange, we recorded a loss on debt extinguishment of $23.7 million in the quarter ended November 1, 2009. We incurred $1.5 million of expenses in connection with the exchange offers which was also recorded as loss on debt extinguishment in the quarter ended November 1, 2009.

Other Income (Expense), Net. Other expense was $3.4 million in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 compared to other expense of $1.0 million in the quarter ended January 31, 2010. Other expense in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 primarily consisted of foreign exchange losses of $2.4 million and $865,000 of amortization of debt issuance costs for our 5% Convertible Senior Notes. Other expense in the quarter ended January 31, 2010 primarily consisted of foreign exchange losses of $726,000 and $248,000 of amortization of debt issuance costs for our 5% Convertible Senior Note.

Other expense was $3.4 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to other expense of $2.9 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. Other expense in the quarter ended January 30, 2011 primarily consisted of foreign exchange losses of $2.0 million and $1.4 million of amortization of debt issuance costs for our 5% Convertible Senior Notes. Other expense in the nine months ended January 31, 2010 was primarily due to a $2.0 million write down of a minority investment as the decline in its value was other than temporary.

Provision for Income Taxes. We recorded income tax provisions of $1.2 million and $421,000, respectively, for the quarters ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010. We recorded income tax provisions of $3.8 million and $618,000, respectively, for the nine months ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010. The income tax provisions for the quarters and nine months ended January 30, 2011 and January 31, 2010 primarily represent current state and foreign income taxes arising in certain jurisdictions in which we conduct business. Due to the uncertainty regarding the timing and extent of our future profitability, we have recorded a valuation allowance to offset our deferred tax assets which represent future income tax benefits associated with our operating losses because we do not believe it is more likely than not these assets will be realized.

Income from Discontinued Operation, Net of Taxes. The transition services agreement we entered into in connection with the sale of the assets of the Network Tools Division, under which we agreed to provide manufacturing services to JDSU during the transition period, was completed on July 14, 2010. Total operating expenses incurred in relation to the transition services agreement during the nine months ended January 30, 2011 was $284,000. Income from discontinued operations for the nine months ended January 31, 2010 was $36.9 million, including a gain on the sale of the business unit of $35.9 million.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Cash Flows from Operating Activities

     Net cash provided by operating activities was $54.9 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011, compared to net cash used in operating activities of $1.7 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. Cash provided by operating activities in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 consisted of our net income, as adjusted to exclude depreciation, amortization and other non-cash items totaling $51.4 million, and cash used for working capital requirements primarily related to increases in accounts receivable, inventory and accounts payable. Accounts receivable increased by $47.6 million primarily due to the increase in shipments. Inventory increased by $35.6 million and accounts payable increased by $6.4 million due to increased purchases to support increased sales. Cash used in operating activities in the nine months ended January 31, 2010 consisted of net loss, as adjusted to exclude depreciation, amortization and other non-cash items totaling to $69.1 million, and cash used for working capital, primarily related to increases in accounts receivable and inventories offset by an increase in accounts payable. Accounts receivable increased by $34.6 million primarily due to the increase in revenues. Inventory and accounts payable increased by $12.4 million and $16.7 million, respectively, primarily due to increase in purchases to support higher levels of sales.

Cash Flows from Investing Activities

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     Net cash used in investing activities totaled $50.6 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to net cash provided by investing activities of $20.5 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. Net cash used in investing activities in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 represented expenditures of $44.7 million for capital equipment and $5.9 million for a minority investment in a publicly held foreign company. Net cash provided by investing activities in the nine months ended January 31, 2010 primarily represented $40.7 million in cash received from the sale of the assets of our Network Tools Division to JDSU on July 15, 2009. We also received $1.2 million in cash in the first quarter of fiscal 2010 from the sale of a promissory note and all of the preferred stock that we received as consideration for the sale of a product line in the first quarter of fiscal 2009. These receipts were partially offset by $21.4 million of expenditures for capital equipment.

Cash Flows from Financing Activities

     Net cash provided by financing activities totaled $98.9 million in the nine months ended January 30, 2011 compared to $19.6 million in the nine months ended January 31, 2010. Cash provided by financing activities for the nine months ended January 30, 2011 primarily reflected proceeds from our common stock offering of $117.9 million and proceeds from the exercise of stock options and purchases under our stock purchase plan totaling $29.9 million, partially offset by repayments of convertible notes totaling $29.6 million and repayments of long-term debt of $19.3 million. Cash provided by financing activities for the nine months ended January 31, 2010 primarily consisted of $98.1 million in proceeds from the issuance of our 5.0% Convertible Senior Notes and $10.0 million of borrowings under our revolving line of credit, partially offset by $88.0 million of cash used to repay convertible notes.

Contractual Obligations and Commercial Commitments

     At January 30, 2011, we had contractual obligations of $270.1 million as shown in the following table (in thousands):

			Payments Due by Period
			Less than						After
Contractual Obligations	Total		1 Year		1-3 Years		4-5 Years		5 Years
Convertible debt	$	57,850	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	57,850
Interest on debt (a)	11,570		2,893		5,785		2,892		—
Operating leases (b)	37,668		5,970		8,523		7,277		15,898
Purchase obligations (c)	162,971		162,971		—		—		—
Total contractual obligations	$	270,059	$	171,834	$	14,308	$	10,169	$	73,748

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(a)     Includes interest to October 2014 on our 5% Convertible Senior Notes due October 2029 as we have the right to redeem the notes in whole or in part at any time on or after October 22, 2014.

(b)     Includes operating lease obligations that have been accrued as restructuring charges.

(c)     Includes open purchase orders with terms that generally allow us the option to cancel or reschedule the order.

         Convertible debt consists of a series of convertible senior notes in the aggregate principal amount of $57.9 million due October 15, 2029. The notes are convertible by the holders at any time prior to maturity into shares of our common stock at specified conversion prices. The notes are redeemable by us, in whole or in part at any time on or after October 22, 2014 if the last reported sale price per share of our common stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price for at least 20 trading days within a period of 30 consecutive trading days ending within five trading days of the date on which we provide the notice of redemption. These notes are also subject to redemption by the holders in October 2014, 2016, 2019 and 2024.

In February 2011, we entered into privately-negotiated agreements with existing holders of the notes, to exchange an aggregate of $17.8 million principal amount of notes for a total of 1,670,724 shares of our common stock, based on the conversion price of the notes of $10.68 per share, plus 74,932 additional shares, including 7,875 shares issued in payment of accrued and unpaid interest of $281,675. Following these exchanges, $40.0 million of principal amount of the notes remained outstanding.

     Interest on debt consists of the scheduled interest payments on our convertible debt.

     Operating lease obligations consist primarily of base rents for facilities we occupy at various locations.

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we have not received the goods or services. Although open purchase orders are considered enforceable and legally binding, their terms generally allow us the option to cancel, reschedule and adjust our requirements based on our business needs prior to the delivery of goods or performance of services. Our policy with respect to all purchase obligations is to record losses, if any, when they are probable and reasonably estimable.

Our subcontractors purchase materials based on forecasts provided by us. We record a liability for firm, non-cancelable and unconditional purchase commitments for quantities held by subcontractors on our behalf to fulfill the subcontractors' purchase order obligations at their facilities which are in excess of our future demand forecasts. As of January 30, 2011, the liability for these purchase commitments of $1.9 million has been expensed and recorded on the condensed consolidated balance sheet as other accrued liabilities and is not included in the preceding table.

We believe we have made adequate provisions for potential exposure related to inventory purchases for orders that may not be utilized.

Sources of Liquidity and Capital Resource Requirements

     At January 30, 2011, our principal sources of liquidity consisted of $310.2 million of cash and cash equivalents and an aggregate of $66.6 million available for borrowing under our credit facility with Wells Fargo Foothill, LLC, subject to certain restrictions and limitations.

       We believe that our existing balances of cash and cash equivalents, together with the cash expected to be generated from future operations and borrowings under our bank credit facility, will be sufficient to meet our cash needs for working capital and capital expenditures for at least the next 12 months. We may, however, require additional financing to fund our operations in the future, to finance future acquisitions that we may propose to undertake or to repay or otherwise retire all of our outstanding 5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029, in the aggregate principal amount of $40.0 million, which are subject to redemption by the holders in October 2014, 2016, 2019 and 2024. A significant contraction in the capital markets, particularly in the technology sector, may make it difficult for us to raise additional capital if and when it is required, especially if we experience disappointing operating results. If adequate capital is not available to us as required, or is not available on favorable terms, our business, financial condition and results of operations will be adversely affected.

Off-Balance-Sheet Arrangements

     At January 30, 2011 and April 30, 2010, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements or relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, which are typically established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes.

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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

     For quantitative and qualitative disclosures about market risk affecting Finisar, see Item 7A: “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2010. Our exposure related to market risk has not changed materially since April 30, 2010.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Effectiveness of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

     Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, we evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as such term is defined under Rule 13a-15(e) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

     There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended January 30, 2011 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II — OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

          Reference is made to “Part I, Item I, Financial Statements - Note 18. Litigation Settlement" and "Note 19. Pending Litigation” for descriptions of litigation that was settled during the quarter ended January 30, 2011 and pending legal proceedings, including material developments in certain of those proceedings during the quarter ended January 30, 2011.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

          OUR FUTURE PERFORMANCE IS SUBJECT TO A VARIETY OF RISKS, INCLUDING THOSE DESCRIBED BELOW. IF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING RISKS ACTUALLY OCCUR, OUR BUSINESS COULD BE HARMED AND THE TRADING PRICE OF OUR COMMON STOCK COULD DECLINE. YOU SHOULD ALSO REFER TO THE OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT, INCLUDING OUR CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND THE RELATED NOTES. THE RISK FACTORS DESCRIBED BELOW DO NOT CONTAIN ANY MATERIAL CHANGES FROM THOSE PREVIOUSLY DISCLOSED IN ITEM 1A OF OUR ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED APRIL 30, 2010.

Our quarterly revenues and operating results fluctuate due to a variety of factors, which may result in volatility or a decline in the price of our stock.

     Our quarterly operating results have varied significantly due to a number of factors, including:

•     fluctuation in demand for our products;

•     the timing of new product introductions or enhancements by us and our competitors;

•     the level of market acceptance of new and enhanced versions of our products;

•     the timing or cancellation of large customer orders;

•     the length and variability of the sales cycle for our products;

•     pricing policy changes by us and our competitors and suppliers;

•     the availability of development funding and the timing of development revenue;

•     changes in the mix of products sold;

•     increased competition in product lines, and competitive pricing pressures; and

•     the evolving and unpredictable nature of the markets for products incorporating our optical components and subsystems.

We expect that our operating results will continue to fluctuate in the future as a result of these factors and a variety of other factors, including:

•     fluctuations in manufacturing yields;

•     the emergence of new industry standards;

•     failure to anticipate changing customer product requirements;

•     the loss or gain of important customers;

•     product obsolescence; and

•     the amount of research and development expenses associated with new product introductions.

  Our operating results could also be harmed by:

•     the continuation or worsening of the current global economic slowdown or economic conditions in various geographic areas where we or our customers do business;

•     acts of terrorism and international conflicts or domestic crises;

•     other conditions affecting the timing of customer orders; or

•     a downturn in the markets for our customers' products, particularly the data storage and networking and telecommunications components markets.

     We may experience a delay in generating or recognizing revenues for a number of reasons. Orders at the beginning of each quarter are typically lower than expected revenues for that quarter and are generally cancelable with minimal notice. Accordingly, we depend on obtaining orders during each quarter for shipment in that quarter to achieve our revenue objectives. Failure to ship these products by the end of a quarter may adversely affect our operating results. Furthermore, our customer

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agreements typically provide that the customer may delay scheduled delivery dates and cancel orders within specified timeframes without significant penalty. Because we base our operating expenses on anticipated revenue trends and a high percentage of our expenses are fixed in the short term, any delay in generating or recognizing forecasted revenues could significantly harm our business. It is likely that in some future quarters our operating results will again decrease from the previous quarter or fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors. In this event, it is likely that the trading price of our common stock would significantly decline.

     As a result of these factors, our operating results may vary significantly from quarter to quarter. Accordingly, we believe that period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations are not meaningful and should not be relied upon as indications of future performance. Any shortfall in revenues or net income from levels expected by the investment community could cause a decline in the trading price of our stock.

We may lose sales if our suppliers or independent contract manufacturers fail to meet our needs or go out of business.

     We currently purchase a number of key components used in the manufacture of our products from single or limited sources, and we rely on several independent contract manufacturers to supply us with certain key components and subassemblies, including lasers, modulators, and printed circuit boards. We depend on these sources to meet our production needs. Moreover, we depend on the quality of the components and subassemblies that they supply to us, over which we have limited control. Several of our suppliers are or may become financially unstable as the result of current global market conditions. In addition, from time to time we have encountered shortages and delays in obtaining components. We are currently encountering such shortages and expect to encounter additional shortages and delays in the future. Recently, many of our suppliers have extended lead times for many of their products as the result of significantly reducing capacity in light of the global slowdown in demand. This reduction in capacity has reduced the ability of many suppliers to respond to increases in demand. If we cannot supply products due to a lack of components, or are unable to redesign products with other components in a timely manner, our business will be significantly harmed. We generally have no long-term contracts with any of our component suppliers or contract manufacturers. As a result, a supplier or contract manufacturer can discontinue supplying components or subassemblies to us without penalty. If a supplier were to discontinue supplying a key component or cease operations, the resulting product manufacturing and delivery delays could be lengthy, and our business could be substantially harmed. We are also subject to potential delays in the development by our suppliers of key components which may affect our ability to introduce new products. Similarly, disruptions in the services provided by our contract manufacturers or the transition to other suppliers of these services could lead to supply chain problems or delays in the delivery of our products. These problems or delays could damage our relationships with our customers and adversely affect our business.

     We use rolling forecasts based on anticipated product orders to determine our component and subassembly requirements. Lead times for materials and components that we order vary significantly and depend on factors such as specific supplier requirements, contract terms and current market demand for particular components. If we overestimate our component requirements, we may have excess inventory, which would increase our costs. If we underestimate our component requirements, we may have inadequate inventory, which could interrupt our manufacturing and delay delivery of our products to our customers. Any of these occurrences could significantly harm our business.

If we are unable to realize anticipated cost savings from the transfer of certain manufacturing operations to our overseas locations and increased use of internally-manufactured components our results of operations could be harmed.

     As part of our initiatives to reduce the cost of revenues planned for the next several quarters, we expect to realize significant cost savings through (i) the transfer of certain product manufacturing operations to lower cost off-shore locations and (ii) product engineering changes to enable the broader use of internally-manufactured components. The transfer of production to overseas locations may be more difficult and costly than we currently anticipate which could result in increased transfer costs and time delays. Further, following transfer, we may experience lower manufacturing yields than those historically achieved in our U.S. manufacturing locations. In addition, the engineering changes required for the use of internally-manufactured components may be more technically-challenging than we anticipate and customer acceptance of such changes could be delayed. If we fail to achieve the planned product manufacturing transfer and increase in internally-manufactured component use within our currently anticipated timeframe, or if our manufacturing yields decrease as a result, we may be unsuccessful in achieving cost savings or such savings will be less than anticipated, and our results of operations could be harmed.

We may not be able to obtain additional capital in the future, and failure to do so may harm our business.

     We believe that our existing balances of cash and cash equivalents, together with the cash expected to be generated from future operations and borrowings under our bank credit facility, will be sufficient to meet our cash needs for working capital

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and capital expenditures for at least the next 12 months. We may, however, require additional financing to fund our operations in the future, to finance future acquisitions that we may propose to undertake or to repay or otherwise retire our outstanding convertible debt in the aggregate principal amount of $40 million, which is subject to redemption by the holders in October 2014, 2016, 2019 and 2024. Due to the unpredictable nature of the capital markets, particularly in the technology sector, we cannot assure you that we will be able to raise additional capital if and when it is required, especially if we experience disappointing operating results. If adequate capital is not available to us as required, or is not available on favorable terms, we could be required to significantly reduce or restructure our business operations. If we do raise additional funds through the issuance of equity or convertible debt securities, the percentage ownership of our existing stockholders could be significantly diluted, and these newly-issued securities may have rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of existing stockholders.

Failure to accurately forecast our revenues could result in additional charges for obsolete or excess inventories or non-cancellable purchase commitments.

     We base many of our operating decisions, and enter into purchase commitments, on the basis of anticipated revenue trends which are highly unpredictable. Some of our purchase commitments are not cancelable, and in some cases we are required to recognize a charge representing the amount of material or capital equipment purchased or ordered which exceeds our actual requirements. In the past, we have sometimes experienced significant growth followed by a significant decrease in customer demand such as occurred in fiscal 2001, when revenues increased by 181% followed by a decrease of 22% in fiscal 2002. Based on projected revenue trends during these periods, we acquired inventories and entered into purchase commitments in order to meet anticipated increases in demand for our products which did not materialize. As a result, we recorded significant charges for obsolete and excess inventories and non-cancelable purchase commitments which contributed to substantial operating losses in fiscal 2002. Should revenues in future periods again fall substantially below our expectations, or should we fail again to accurately forecast changes in demand mix, we could be required to record additional charges for obsolete or excess inventories or non-cancelable purchase commitments.

If we encounter sustained yield problems or other delays in the production or delivery of our internally-manufactured components or in the final assembly and test of our products, we may lose sales and damage our customer relationships.

     Our manufacturing operations are highly vertically integrated. In order to reduce our manufacturing costs, we have acquired a number of companies, and business units of other companies, that manufacture optical components incorporated in our optical subsystem products and have developed our own facilities for the final assembly and testing of our products. For example, we design and manufacture many critical components including all of the short wavelength VCSEL lasers incorporated in transceivers used for LAN/SAN applications at our wafer fabrication facility in Allen, Texas and manufacture a portion of our internal requirements for longer wavelength lasers at our wafer fabrication facility in Fremont, California. We assemble and test most of our transceiver products at our facility in Ipoh, Malaysia. As a result of this vertical integration, we have become increasingly dependent on our internal production capabilities. The manufacture of critical components, including the fabrication of wafers, and the assembly and testing of our products, involve highly complex processes. For example, minute levels of contaminants in the manufacturing environment, difficulties in the fabrication process or other factors can cause a substantial portion of the components on a wafer to be nonfunctional. These problems may be difficult to detect at an early stage of the manufacturing process and often are time-consuming and expensive to correct. From time to time, we have experienced problems achieving acceptable yields at our wafer fabrication facilities, resulting in delays in the availability of components. Moreover, an increase in the rejection rate of products during the quality control process before, during or after manufacture, results in lower yields and margins. In addition, changes in manufacturing processes required as a result of changes in product specifications, changing customer needs and the introduction of new product lines have historically significantly reduced our manufacturing yields, resulting in low or negative margins on those products. Poor manufacturing yields over a prolonged period of time could adversely affect our ability to deliver our subsystem products to our customers and could also affect our sale of components to customers in the merchant market. Our inability to supply components to meet our internal needs could harm our relationships with customers and have an adverse effect on our business.

We are dependent on widespread market acceptance of our optical subsystems and components, and our revenues will decline if the markets for these products do not expand as expected.

     We derive all of our revenue from sales of our optical subsystems and components. Accordingly, widespread acceptance of these products is critical to our future success. If the market does not continue to accept our optical subsystems and components, our revenues will decline significantly. Our future success also ultimately depends on the continued growth of the communications industry and, in particular, the continued expansion of global information networks, particularly those directly or indirectly dependent upon a fiber optics infrastructure. As part of that growth, we are relying on increasing demand for voice, video and other data delivered over high-bandwidth network systems as well as commitments by network systems

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vendors to invest in the expansion of the global information network. As network usage and bandwidth demand increase, so does the need for advanced optical networks to provide the required bandwidth. Without network and bandwidth growth, the need for optical subsystems and components, and hence our future growth as a manufacturer of these products, will be jeopardized, and our business would be significantly harmed.

     Many of these factors are beyond our control. In addition, in order to achieve widespread market acceptance, we must differentiate ourselves from our competition through product offerings and brand name recognition. We cannot assure you that we will be successful in making this differentiation or achieving widespread acceptance of our products. Failure of our existing or future products to maintain and achieve widespread levels of market acceptance will significantly impair our revenue growth.

We depend on large purchases from a few significant customers, and any loss, cancellation, reduction or delay in purchases by these customers could harm our business.

     A small number of customers have consistently accounted for a significant portion of our revenues. For example, sales to our top five customers represented 49% of our revenues in the first nine months of fiscal 2011, 43% of our revenues in fiscal 2010 and 42% of our revenues in fiscal 2009. Our success will depend on our continued ability to develop and manage relationships with our major customers. Although we are attempting to expand our customer base, we expect that significant customer concentration will continue for the foreseeable future. We may not be able to offset any decline in revenues from our existing major customers with revenues from new customers, and our quarterly results may be volatile because we are dependent on large orders from these customers that may be reduced or delayed.

     The markets in which we have historically sold our optical subsystems and components products are dominated by a relatively small number of systems manufacturers, thereby limiting the number of our potential customers. Recent consolidation of portions of our customer base, including telecommunications systems manufacturers, and potential future consolidation, may have a material adverse impact on our business. Our dependence on large orders from a relatively small number of customers makes our relationship with each customer critically important to our business. We cannot assure you that we will be able to retain our largest customers, that we will be able to attract additional customers or that our customers will be successful in selling their products that incorporate our products. We have in the past experienced delays and reductions in orders from some of our major customers. In addition, our customers have in the past sought price concessions from us, and we expect that they will continue to do so in the future. Expense reduction measures that we have implemented over the past several years, and additional action we are taking to reduce costs, may adversely affect our ability to introduce new and improved products which may, in turn, adversely affect our relationships with some of our key customers. Further, some of our customers may in the future shift their purchases of products from us to our competitors or to joint ventures between these customers and our competitors. The loss of one or more of our largest customers, any reduction or delay in sales to these customers, our inability to successfully develop relationships with additional customers or future price concessions that we may make could significantly harm our business.

Because we do not have long-term contracts with our customers, our customers may cease purchasing our products at any time if we fail to meet our customers' needs.

     Typically, we do not have long-term contracts with our customers. As a result, our agreements with our customers do not provide any assurance of future sales. Accordingly:

•     our customers can stop purchasing our products at any time without penalty;

•     our customers are free to purchase products from our competitors; and

•     our customers are not required to make minimum purchases.

     Sales are typically made pursuant to inventory hub arrangements under which customers may draw down inventory to satisfy their demand as needed or pursuant to individual purchase orders, often with extremely short lead times. If we are unable to fulfill these orders in a timely manner, it is likely that we will lose sales and customers. If our major customers stop purchasing our products for any reason, our business and results of operations would be harmed.

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The markets for our products are subject to rapid technological change, and to compete effectively we must continually introduce new products that achieve market acceptance.

     The markets for our products are characterized by rapid technological change, frequent new product introductions, substantial capital investment, changes in customer requirements and evolving industry standards with respect to the protocols used in data communications, telecommunications and CATV networks. Our future performance will depend on the successful development, introduction and market acceptance of new and enhanced products that address these changes as well as current and potential customer requirements. For example, the market for optical subsystems is currently characterized by a trend toward the adoption of “pluggable” modules and subsystems that do not require customized interconnections and by the development of more complex and integrated optical subsystems. We expect that new technologies will emerge as competition and the need for higher and more cost-effective bandwidth increases. The introduction of new and enhanced products may cause our customers to defer or cancel orders for existing products. In addition, a slowdown in demand for existing products ahead of a new product introduction could result in a write-down in the value of inventory on hand related to existing products. We have in the past experienced a slowdown in demand for existing products and delays in new product development and such delays may occur in the future. To the extent customers defer or cancel orders for existing products due to a slowdown in demand or in the expectation of a new product release or if there is any delay in development or introduction of our new products or enhancements of our products, our operating results would suffer. We also may not be able to develop the underlying core technologies necessary to create new products and enhancements, or to license these technologies from third parties. Product development delays may result from numerous factors, including:

•     changing product specifications and customer requirements;

•     unanticipated engineering complexities;

•     expense reduction measures we have implemented, and others we may implement, to conserve our cash and attempt to achieve and sustain profitability;

•     difficulties in hiring and retaining necessary technical personnel;

•     difficulties in reallocating engineering resources and overcoming resource limitations; and

•     changing market or competitive product requirements.

     The development of new, technologically advanced products is a complex and uncertain process requiring high levels of innovation and highly skilled engineering and development personnel, as well as the accurate anticipation of technological and market trends. The introduction of new products also requires significant investment to ramp up production capacity, for which benefit will not be realized if customer demand does not develop as expected. Ramping of production capacity also entails risks of delays which can limit our ability to realize the full benefit of the new product introduction. We cannot assure you that we will be able to identify, develop, manufacture, market or support new or enhanced products successfully, if at all, or on a timely basis. Further, we cannot assure you that our new products will gain market acceptance or that we will be able to respond effectively to product announcements by competitors, technological changes or emerging industry standards. Any failure to respond to technological change would significantly harm our business.

Continued competition in our markets may lead to an accelerated reduction in our prices, revenues and market share.

     The end markets for optical products have experienced significant industry consolidation during the past few years while the

industry that supplies these customers has experienced less consolidation. As a result, the markets for optical subsystems and components are highly competitive. Our current competitors include a number of domestic and international companies, many of which have substantially greater financial, technical, marketing and distribution resources and brand name recognition than we have. Increased consolidation in our industry, should it occur, will reduce the number of our competitors but would be likely to further strengthen surviving industry participants. We may not be able to compete successfully against either current or future competitors. Companies competing with us may introduce products that are competitively priced, have increased performance or functionality, or incorporate technological advances and may be able to react quicker to changing customer requirements and expectations. There is also the risk that network systems vendors may re-enter the subsystem market and begin to manufacture the optical subsystems incorporated in their network systems. Increased competition could result in significant price erosion, reduced revenue, lower margins or loss of market share, any of which would significantly harm our business. Our principal competitors for optical transceivers sold for applications based on the Fibre Channel and Ethernet protocols include Avago Technologies (formerly part of Agilent Technologies) and JDSU. Our principal competitors for optical transceivers sold for MAN, WAN and telecom applications based on the SONET/SDH protocols include Oclaro (formed with the merger of Bookham and Avanex), Opnext and Sumitomo. Our principal competitors for WSS ROADM products include CoAdna, JDSU, Oclaro and Oplink. Our principal competitors for cable TV products include AOI and Emcore. Our competitors continue to introduce improved products and we will have to do the same to remain competitive.

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Decreases in average selling prices of our products may reduce our gross margins.

     The market for optical subsystems is characterized by declining average selling prices resulting from factors such as increased competition, overcapacity, the introduction of new products and increased unit volumes as manufacturers continue to deploy network and storage systems. We have in the past experienced, and in the future may experience, substantial period-to-period fluctuations in operating results due to declining average selling prices. We anticipate that average selling prices will decrease in the future in response to product introductions by competitors or us, or by other factors, including pricing pressures from significant customers. Therefore, in order to sustain profitable operations, we must continue to develop and introduce on a timely basis new products that incorporate features that can be sold at higher average selling prices. Failure to do so could cause our revenues and gross margins to decline, which would result in additional operating losses and significantly harm our business.

     We may be unable to reduce the cost of our products sufficiently to enable us to compete with others. Our cost reduction efforts may not allow us to keep pace with competitive pricing pressures and could adversely affect our margins. In order to remain competitive, we must continually reduce the cost of manufacturing our products through design and engineering changes. We may not be successful in redesigning our products or delivering our products to market in a timely manner. We cannot assure you that any redesign will result in sufficient cost reductions to allow us to reduce the price of our products to remain competitive or improve our gross margins.

Shifts in our product mix may result in declines in gross margins.

     Our optical products sold for longer distance MAN and telecom applications typically have higher gross margins than our products for shorter distance LAN or SAN applications. Gross margins on individual products fluctuate over the product's life cycle. Our overall gross margins have fluctuated from period to period as a result of shifts in product mix, the introduction of new products, decreases in average selling prices for older products and our ability to reduce product costs, and these fluctuations are expected to continue in the future.

Our customers often evaluate our products for long and variable periods, which causes the timing of our revenues and results of operations to be unpredictable.

     The period of time between our initial contact with a customer and the receipt of an actual purchase order may span a year or more. During this time, customers may perform, or require us to perform, extensive and lengthy evaluation and testing of our products before purchasing and using the products in their equipment. These products often take substantial time to develop because of their complexity and because customer specifications sometimes change during the development cycle. Our customers do not typically share information on the duration or magnitude of these qualification procedures. The length of these qualification processes also may vary substantially by product and customer, and, thus, cause our results of operations to be unpredictable. While our potential customers are qualifying our products and before they place an order with us, we may incur substantial research and development and sales and marketing expenses and expend significant management effort. Even after incurring such costs we ultimately may not sell any products to such potential customers. In addition, these qualification processes often make it difficult to obtain new customers, as customers are reluctant to expend the resources necessary to qualify a new supplier if they have one or more existing qualified sources. Once our products have been qualified, the agreements that we enter into with our customers typically contain no minimum purchase commitments. Failure of our customers to incorporate our products into their systems would significantly harm our business.

We will lose sales if we are unable to obtain government authorization to export certain of our products, and we would be subject to legal and regulatory consequences if we do not comply with applicable export control laws and regulations.

     Exports of certain of our products are subject to export controls imposed by the U.S. Government and administered by the United States Departments of State and Commerce. In certain instances, these regulations may require pre-shipment authorization from the administering department. For products subject to the Export Administration Regulations, or EAR, administered by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security, the requirement for a license is dependent on the type and end use of the product, the final destination, the identity of the end user and whether a license exception might apply. Virtually all exports of products subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, or ITAR, administered by the Department of State's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, require a license. Certain of our fiber optics products are subject to EAR and certain of our RF over fiber products, as well as certain products developed with government funding, are currently subject to ITAR. Products developed and manufactured in our foreign locations are subject to export controls of the applicable foreign nation.

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Given the current global political climate, obtaining export licenses can be difficult and time-consuming. Failure to obtain export licenses for these shipments could significantly reduce our revenue and materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Compliance with U.S. Government regulations also subjects us to additional fees and costs. The absence of comparable restrictions on competitors in other countries may adversely affect our competitive position.

We have previously been the subject of inquiries from the Department of State and the Department of Justice regarding compliance with ITAR. Although these inquiries were closed with no action being taken, we expended significant time and resources to resolve them, and future inquiries of this type could also be costly to resolve.

We depend on facilities located outside of the United States to manufacture a substantial portion of our products, which subjects us to additional risks.

     In addition to our principal manufacturing facility in Malaysia, we operate smaller facilities in Australia, China, Israel and Singapore. We also rely on several contract manufacturers located in Asia for our supply of key subassemblies. Each of these facilities and manufacturers subjects us to additional risks associated with international manufacturing, including:

•     unexpected changes in regulatory requirements;

•     legal uncertainties regarding liability, tariffs and other trade barriers;

•     inadequate protection of intellectual property in some countries;

•     greater incidence of shipping delays;

•     greater difficulty in overseeing manufacturing operations;

•     greater difficulty in hiring and retaining direct labor;

•     greater difficulty in hiring talent needed to oversee manufacturing operations;

•     potential political and economic instability; and

•     the outbreak of infectious diseases such as the H1N1 influenza virus and/or severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which could result in travel restrictions or the closure of our facilities or the facilities of our customers and suppliers.

     Any of these factors could significantly impair our ability to source our contract manufacturing requirements internationally.

Our future operating results may be subject to volatility as a result of exposure to foreign exchange risks.

     We are exposed to foreign exchange risks. Foreign currency fluctuations may affect both our revenues and our costs and expenses and significantly affect our operating results. Prices for our products are currently denominated in U.S. dollars for sales to our customers throughout the world. If there is a significant devaluation of the currency in a specific country relative to the dollar, the prices of our products will increase relative to that country's currency, our products may be less competitive in that country and our revenues may be adversely affected.

     Although we price our products in U.S. dollars, portions of both our cost of revenues and operating expenses are incurred in foreign currencies, principally the Malaysian ringgit, the Chinese yuan, the Australian dollar and the Israeli shekel. As a result, we bear the risk that the rate of inflation in one or more countries will exceed the rate of the devaluation of that country's currency in relation to the U.S. dollar, which would increase our costs as expressed in U.S. dollars. To date, we have not engaged in currency hedging transactions to decrease the risk of financial exposure from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates.

Our business and future operating results are subject to a wide range of uncertainties arising out of the continuing threat of terrorist attacks and ongoing military actions in the Middle East.

     Like other U.S. companies, our business and operating results are subject to uncertainties arising out of the continuing threat of terrorist attacks on the United States and ongoing military actions in the Middle East, including the economic consequences of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq or additional terrorist activities and associated political instability, and the impact of heightened security concerns on domestic and international travel and commerce. In particular, due to these uncertainties we are subject to:

•     increased risks related to the operations of our manufacturing facilities in Malaysia;

•     greater risks of disruption in the operations of our China, Singapore and Israeli facilities and our Asian contract manufacturers, including contract manufacturers located in Thailand, and more frequent instances of shipping delays; and

•     the risk that future tightening of immigration controls may adversely affect the residence status of non-U.S. engineers

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and other key technical employees in our U.S. facilities or our ability to hire new non-U.S. employees in such facilities.

Future acquisitions could be difficult to integrate, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value and harm our operating results.

     In addition to our combination with Optium in August 2008, we have completed the acquisition of eleven privately-held companies and certain businesses and assets from six other companies since October 2000. We continue to review opportunities to acquire other businesses, product lines or technologies that would complement our current products, expand the breadth of our markets or enhance our technical capabilities, or that may otherwise offer growth opportunities, and we from time to time make proposals and offers, and take other steps, to acquire businesses, products and technologies.

     The Optium merger and several of our other past acquisitions have been material, and acquisitions that we may complete in the future may be material. In 13 of our 17 acquisitions, we issued common stock or notes convertible into common stock as all or a portion of the consideration. The issuance of common stock or other equity securities by us in connection with any future acquisition would dilute our stockholders' percentage ownership.

     Other risks associated with acquiring the operations of other companies include:

•     problems assimilating the purchased operations, technologies or products;

•     unanticipated costs associated with the acquisition;

•     diversion of management's attention from our core business;

•     adverse effects on existing business relationships with suppliers and customers;

•     risks associated with entering markets in which we have no or limited prior experience; and

•     potential loss of key employees of purchased organizations.

     Not all of our past acquisitions have been successful. In the past, we have subsequently sold some of the assets acquired in prior acquisitions, discontinued product lines and closed acquired facilities. As a result of these activities, we incurred significant restructuring charges and charges for the write-down of assets associated with those acquisitions. Through fiscal 2010, we have written off all of the goodwill associated with our past acquisitions. We cannot assure you that we will be successful in overcoming problems encountered in connection with potential future acquisitions, and our inability to do so could significantly harm our business. In addition, to the extent that the economic benefits associated with any of our future acquisitions diminish in the future, we may be required to record additional write downs of goodwill, intangible assets or other assets associated with such acquisitions, which would adversely affect our operating results.

We have made and may continue to make strategic investments which may not be successful, may result in the loss of all or part of our invested capital and may adversely affect our operating results.

     Since inception we have made minority equity investments in a number of early-stage technology companies, totaling approximately $61.9 million. Our investments in these early stage companies were primarily motivated by our desire to gain early access to new technology. We intend to review additional opportunities to make strategic equity investments in pre-public companies where we believe such investments will provide us with opportunities to gain access to important technologies or otherwise enhance important commercial relationships. We have little or no influence over the early-stage companies in which we have made or may make these strategic, minority equity investments. Each of these investments in pre-public companies involves a high degree of risk. We may not be successful in achieving the financial, technological or commercial advantage upon which any given investment is premised, and failure by the early-stage company to achieve its own business objectives or to raise capital needed on acceptable economic terms could result in a loss of all or part of our invested capital. Between fiscal 2003 and 2010, we wrote off an aggregate of $26.8 million in six investments which became impaired and reclassified $4.2 million of another investment to goodwill as the investment was deemed to have no value. We may be required to write off all or a portion of the $18.6 million in such investments remaining on our balance sheet as of January 30, 2011 in future periods.

Our ability to utilize certain net operating loss carryforwards and tax credit carryforwards may be limited under Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code.

     As of January 30, 2011, we had net operating loss, or NOL, carryforward amounts of approximately $488 million for U.S. federal income tax purposes and $160.5 million for state income tax purposes, and tax credit carryforward amounts of approximately $15.3 million for U.S. federal income tax purposes and $10.1 million for state income tax purposes. The federal and state tax credit carryforwards will expire at various dates beginning in 2012 through 2029, and $1.6 million of such carryforwards will expire in the next five years. The federal and state NOL carryforwards will expire at various dates beginning

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in 2011 through 2029, and $37.4 million of such carryforwards will expire in the next five years. Utilization of these NOL and tax credit carryforward amounts may be subject to a substantial annual limitation if the ownership change limitations under Sections 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code and similar state provisions are triggered by changes in the ownership of our capital stock. Such an annual limitation could result in the expiration of the NOL and tax credit carryforward amounts before utilization.

Because of competition for technical personnel, we may not be able to recruit or retain necessary personnel.

     We believe our future success will depend in large part upon our ability to attract and retain highly skilled managerial, technical, sales and marketing, finance and manufacturing personnel. In particular, we will need to increase the number of technical staff members with experience in high-speed networking applications as we further develop our product lines. Competition for these highly skilled employees in our industry is intense. In making employment decisions, particularly in the high-technology industries, job candidates often consider the value of the equity they are to receive in connection with their employment. Therefore, significant volatility in the price of our common stock may adversely affect our ability to attract or retain technical personnel. Our failure to attract and retain these qualified employees could significantly harm our business. The loss of the services of any of our qualified employees, the inability to attract or retain qualified personnel in the future or delays in hiring required personnel could hinder the development and introduction of and negatively impact our ability to sell our products. In addition, employees may leave our company and subsequently compete against us. Moreover, companies in our industry whose employees accept positions with competitors frequently claim that their competitors have engaged in unfair hiring practices. We have been subject to claims of this type and may be subject to such claims in the future as we seek to hire qualified personnel. Some of these claims may result in material litigation. We could incur substantial costs in defending ourselves against these claims, regardless of their merits.

Our failure to protect our intellectual property may significantly harm our business.

     Our success and ability to compete is dependent in part on our proprietary technology. We rely on a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, as well as confidentiality agreements to establish and protect our proprietary rights. We license certain of our proprietary technology, including our digital diagnostics technology, to customers who include current and potential competitors, and we rely largely on provisions of our licensing agreements to protect our intellectual property rights in this technology. Although a number of patents have been issued to us, we have obtained a number of other patents as a result of our acquisitions, and we have filed applications for additional patents, we cannot assure you that any patents will issue as a result of pending patent applications or that our issued patents will be upheld. Additionally, significant technology used in our product lines is not the subject of any patent protection, and we may be unable to obtain patent protection on such technology in the future. Any infringement of our proprietary rights could result in significant litigation costs, and any failure to adequately protect our proprietary rights could result in our competitors offering similar products, potentially resulting in loss of a competitive advantage and decreased revenues.

     Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, existing patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws afford only limited protection. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect our proprietary rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States. Attempts may be made to copy or reverse engineer aspects of our products or to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. Accordingly, we may not be able to prevent misappropriation of our technology or deter others from developing similar technology. Furthermore, policing the unauthorized use of our products is difficult and expensive. We are currently engaged in pending litigation to enforce certain of our patents, and additional litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights or to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. In connection with the pending litigation, substantial management time has been, and will continue to be, expended. In addition, we have incurred, and we expect to continue to incur, substantial legal expenses in connection with these pending lawsuits. These costs and this diversion of resources could significantly harm our business.

Claims that we infringe third-party intellectual property rights could result in significant expenses or restrictions on our ability to sell our products.

     The networking industry is characterized by the existence of a large number of patents and frequent litigation based on allegations of patent infringement. We have been involved in the past as a defendant in patent infringement lawsuits, and we were recently found liable in a patent infringement lawsuit filed against Optium by JDSU and Emcore Corporation. This suit involved two of our cable television products, each of which has been redesigned. In addition, in connection with a patent infringement lawsuit that we initiated in January 2010 against Source Photonics, MRV Communications, NeoPhotonics and Oplink, each of Source Photonics and NeoPhotonics raised counterclaims alleging patent infringement by us. The Source Photonics counterclaims were raised against certain of our transceiver products and the NeoPhotonics counterclaims were raised against certain of our WSS products. In connection with our settlement with Source Photonics, we received a royalty free

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license to the Source Photonics patents through December 31, 2015. While, as a result of various procedural events in that lawsuit and a tolling agreement between the parties, the NeoPhotonics patent counterclaims are not currently being asserted against us, such claims may be re-asserted against us in the future. Further, on March 7, 2011, Optical Communication Products, Inc. (OCP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Oplink Communications, filed a complaint for patent infringement in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The complaint alleges that certain vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) and active optical cables manufactured and sold by the Company infringe five OCP patents. From time to time, other parties may assert patent, copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights to technologies and in various jurisdictions that are important to our business. Any claims asserting that our products infringe or may infringe proprietary rights of third parties, if determined adversely to us, could significantly harm our business. Any claims, with or without merit, could be time-consuming, result in costly litigation, divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel, cause product shipment delays or require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements, any of which could significantly harm our business. In addition, our agreements with our customers typically require us to indemnify our customers from any expense or liability resulting from claimed infringement of third party intellectual property rights. In the event a claim against us was successful and we could not obtain a license to the relevant technology on acceptable terms or license a substitute technology or redesign our products to avoid infringement, our business would be significantly harmed.

     Numerous patents in our industry are held by others, including academic institutions and competitors. Optical subsystem suppliers may seek to gain a competitive advantage or other third parties may seek an economic return on their intellectual property portfolios by making infringement claims against us. In the future, we may need to obtain license rights to patents or other intellectual property held by others to the extent necessary for our business. Unless we are able to obtain those licenses on commercially reasonable terms, patents or other intellectual property held by others could inhibit our development of new products. Licenses granting us the right to use third party technology may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. Generally, a license, if granted, would include payments of up-front fees, ongoing royalties or both. These payments or other terms could have a significant adverse impact on our operating results.

Our products may contain defects that may cause us to incur significant costs, divert our attention from product development efforts and result in a loss of customers.

     Our products are complex and defects may be found from time to time. Networking products frequently contain undetected software or hardware defects when first introduced or as new versions are released. In addition, our products are often embedded in or deployed in conjunction with our customers' products which incorporate a variety of components produced by third parties. As a result, when problems occur, it may be difficult to identify the source of the problem. These problems may cause us to incur significant damages or warranty and repair costs, divert the attention of our engineering personnel from our product development efforts and cause significant customer relation problems or loss of customers, all of which would harm our business.

We are subject to pending shareholder derivative legal proceedings.

     We have been named as a nominal defendant in several purported shareholder derivative lawsuits concerning the granting of stock options. These cases have been consolidated into two proceedings pending in federal and state courts in California. The plaintiffs in all of these cases have alleged that certain current or former officers and directors of Finisar caused it to grant stock options at less than fair market value, contrary to our public statements (including statements in our financial statements), and that, as a result, those officers and directors are liable to Finisar. No specific amount of damages has been alleged and, by the nature of the lawsuits no damages will be alleged, against Finisar. On May 22, 2007, the state court granted our motion to stay the state court action pending resolution of the consolidated federal court action. On August 28, 2007, we and the individual defendants filed motions to dismiss the complaint which were granted on January 11, 2008. On May 12, 2008, the plaintiffs filed a further amended complaint in the federal court action. On July 1, 2008, we and the individual defendants filed motions to dismiss the amended complaint. On September 22, 2009, the Court granted the motions to dismiss. The plaintiffs are appealing this order. We will continue to incur legal fees in this case, including expenses for the reimbursement of legal fees of present and former officers and directors under indemnification obligations. The expense of continuing to defend such litigation may be significant. The amount of time to resolve these lawsuits is unpredictable and these actions may divert management's attention from the day-to-day operations of our business, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and cash flows.

Our business and future operating results may be adversely affected by events outside our control.

     Our business and operating results are vulnerable to events outside of our control, such as earthquakes, fire, power loss, telecommunications failures and uncertainties arising out of terrorist attacks in the United States and overseas. Our corporate headquarters and a portion of our manufacturing operations are located in California. California in particular has been

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vulnerable to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, fires and floods, and other risks which at times have disrupted the local economy and posed physical risks to our property. We are also dependent on communications links with our overseas manufacturing locations and would be significantly harmed if these links were interrupted for any significant length of time. We presently do not have adequate redundant, multiple site capacity if any of these events were to occur, nor can we be certain that the insurance we maintain against these events would be adequate.

The conversion of our outstanding convertible subordinated notes would result in substantial dilution to our current stockholders.

     As of January 30, 2011, we had outstanding 5.0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 in the principal amount of $57.9 million. In February 2011, we entered into privately-negotiated agreements with existing holders of the Company’s 5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 to exchange an aggregate of approximately $17.8 million principal amount of the notes for shares of the Company's common stock. Following these exchanges, $40.0 million of principal amount of the Notes remained outstanding. These notes are convertible, at the option of the holder, at any time on or prior to maturity into shares of our common stock at a conversion price of $10.68 per share. An aggregate of approximately 3,748,478 shares of common stock would be issued upon the conversion of all outstanding convertible notes at these exchange rates, which would dilute the voting power and ownership percentage of our existing stockholders. We have previously entered into privately negotiated transactions with certain holders of our convertible notes for the repurchase of notes in exchange for a greater number of shares of our common stock than would have been issued had the principal amount of the notes been converted at the original conversion rate specified in the notes, thus resulting in more dilution. We may enter into similar transactions in the future and, if we do so, there will be additional dilution to the voting power and percentage ownership of our existing stockholders.

Delaware law, our charter documents and our stockholder rights plan contain provisions that could discourage or prevent a potential takeover, even if such a transaction would be beneficial to our stockholders.

     Some provisions of our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, as well as provisions of Delaware law, may discourage, delay or prevent a merger or acquisition that a stockholder may consider favorable. These include provisions:

•     authorizing the board of directors to issue additional preferred stock;

•     prohibiting cumulative voting in the election of directors;

•     limiting the persons who may call special meetings of stockholders;

•     prohibiting stockholder actions by written consent;

•     creating a classified board of directors pursuant to which our directors are elected for staggered three-year terms;

•     permitting the board of directors to increase the size of the board and to fill vacancies;

•     requiring a super-majority vote of our stockholders to amend our bylaws and certain provisions of our certificate of incorporation; and

•     establishing advance notice requirements for nominations for election to the board of directors or for proposing matters that can be acted on by stockholders at stockholder meetings.

     We are subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law which limit the right of a corporation to engage in a business combination with a holder of 15% or more of the corporation's outstanding voting securities, or certain affiliated persons.

     In addition, in September 2002, our board of directors adopted a stockholder rights plan under which our stockholders received one share purchase right for each share of our common stock held by them. Subject to certain exceptions, the rights become exercisable when a person or group (other than certain exempt persons) acquires, or announces its intention to commence a tender or exchange offer upon completion of which such person or group would acquire, 20% or more of our common stock without prior board approval. Should such an event occur, then, unless the rights are redeemed or have expired, our stockholders, other than the acquirer, will be entitled to purchase shares of our common stock at a 50% discount from its then-Current Market Price (as defined) or, in the case of certain business combinations, purchase the common stock of the acquirer at a 50% discount.

     Although we believe that these charter and bylaw provisions, provisions of Delaware law and our stockholder rights plan provide an opportunity for the board to assure that our stockholders realize full value for their investment, they could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control, even under circumstances that some stockholders may consider beneficial.

We do not currently intend to pay dividends on Finisar common stock and, consequently, a stockholder's ability to achieve a return on such stockholder's investment will depend on appreciation in the price of the common stock.

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     We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on Finisar common stock and we do not currently intend to do so for the foreseeable future. We currently intend to invest our future earnings, if any, to fund our growth. Therefore, a stockholder is not likely to receive any dividends on such stockholder's common stock for the foreseeable future. In addition, our credit facility with Wells Fargo LLC contains restrictions on our ability to pay dividends.

Our stock price has been and is likely to continue to be volatile.

     The trading price of our common stock has been and is likely to continue to be subject to large fluctuations. Our stock price may increase or decrease in response to a number of events and factors, including:

•     trends in our industry and the markets in which we operate;

•     changes in the market price of the products we sell;

•     changes in financial estimates and recommendations by securities analysts;

•     acquisitions and financings;

•     quarterly variations in our operating results;

•     the operating and stock price performance of other companies that investors in our common stock may deem comparable; and

•     purchases or sales of blocks of our common stock.

     Part of this volatility is attributable to the current state of the stock market, in which wide price swings are common. This volatility may adversely affect the prices of our common stock regardless of our operating performance. If any of the foregoing occurs, our stock price could fall and we may be exposed to class action lawsuits that, even if unsuccessful, could be costly to defend and a distraction to management.

Item 6. Exhibits

     The exhibits listed in the Exhibit Index are filed as part of this report (see page 45).

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SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

FINISAR CORPORATION
By:	/s/ JERRY S. RAWLS
	Jerry S. Rawls
	Chairman of the Board (Co-Principal Executive Officer)
By:	/s/ EITAN GERTEL
	Eitan Gertel
	Chief Executive officer (Co-Principal Executive Officer)
By:	/s/ KURT ADZEMA
	Kurt Adzema
	Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

Dated: March 10, 2011

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit
Number	Description
10.1	Third Amendment to Credit Agreement dated February 9, 2011and first amendment to Security Agreement by and among Finisar Corporation, Optium Corporation and Wells Fargo Foothill, LLC
10.2	Finisar Executive Retention and Severance Plan, as Amended and Restated Effective March 07, 2011
31.1	Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.2	Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.3	Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.1	Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.2	Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.3	Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

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