As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 29, 2000

                                                      Registration No. 333-_____
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                              --------------------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                      UNDER

                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                              --------------------

                       ALLIANCE FIBER OPTIC PRODUCTS, INC.
                       -----------------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


              Delaware                                      77-0417039
-----------------------------------               ------------------------------
  (State or other jurisdiction of                          (I.R.S. Employer
   incorporation or organization)                        Identification No.)

     735 North Pastoria Avenue
           Sunnyvale, CA                                        94085
-----------------------------------               ------------------------------
       (Address of principal                                  (Zip Code)
         executive offices)


      ALLIANCE FIBER OPTIC PRODUCTS, INC. 2000 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the plan)

              PETER C. CHANG                                Copy to:
          Chief Executive Officer                 GABRIELLA A. LOMBARDI, ESQ.
    Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc.          Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
         735 North Pastoria Avenue                    2550 Hanover Street
            Sunnyvale, CA 94085                       Palo Alto, CA 94304
              (408) 736-6900                             (650) 233-4500
------------------------------------------
       (Name, address and telephone
       number of agent for service)

<TABLE>
                                     CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

<CAPTION>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Proposed             Proposed           Amount of
    Title of Securities               Amount To         Maximum Offering     Maximum Aggregate     Registration
     To Be Registered               Be Registered      Price Per Share(1)    Offering Price(1)         Fee
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                               <C>                       <C>                   <C>                <C>
Common Stock, $0.001 par value    1,500,000 shares          $8.82                 $13,230,000        $3,493
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(1) Pursuant to Rule 457(h)(i), the proposed maximum offering price per share
and the registration fee has been computed on the basis of the average of the
high and low prices of the Common Stock as reported on the Nasdaq National
Market on November 24, 2000.
</TABLE>

                              --------------------

The Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing in accordance with
Rule 462 under the Securities Act of 1933.


<PAGE>

                                     PART I
                                     ------

Item 1.  Plan Information.*
------   ----------------

Item 2.  Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.*
------   -----------------------------------------------------------

*        Information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a)
prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule
428 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") and the Note to Part
I of Form S-8.

                                     PART II
                                     -------

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
------    ---------------------------------------

         The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and
Exchange Commission are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement:

         (a) Registrant's prospectus dated November 21, 2000 and filed on
November 21, 2000 pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act and which
contains audited financial statements for the Registrant's latest fiscal year
for which such statements have been filed.

         (b) The description of Registrant's Common Stock contained in
Registrant's registration statement on Form 8-A, filed October 27, 2000 as
amended November 14, 2000.

         In addition, all documents subsequently filed by Registrant pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then
remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Item 4.  Description of Securities.
------   -------------------------

         Not applicable.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
------   --------------------------------------

         The validity of the shares of common stock offered hereby has been
passed upon for the Registrant by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP, Palo Alto,
California. As of the date of this Registration Statement, an entity in which
attorneys and former attorneys of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP are members and
certain attorneys of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP beneficially own an aggregate
of 60,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
------   -----------------------------------------

         Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides for the
indemnification of officers, directors, and other corporate agents in terms
sufficiently broad to indemnify such persons under certain circumstances for
liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"). Article VIII, Section B of the
Registrant's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (Exhibit 3(i).3
to the Form S-1 Registration Statement) and Article 5 of the Registrant's
Amended and Restated Bylaws (Exhibit 3(ii).3 to the Form S-1 Registration
Statement) provide for indemnification of the Registrant's directors, officers,
employees and other agents to the extent and under the circumstances permitted
by the Delaware General Corporation Law. The Registrant has also entered into
agreements with our directors and officers that will require the Registrant,
among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities that may


<PAGE>

arise by reason of their status or services as directors or officers to the
fullest extent not prohibited by law (Exhibit 10.2 to the Form S-1 Registration
Statement).

         The Purchase Agreement and the International Purchase Agreement
(Exhibit 1.1and 1.2, respectively, to the Form S-1 Registration Statement)
provide for indemnification by the Underwriters of the Registrant, its directors
and officers, and by the Registrant of the Underwriters, for certain
liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Act, and afford certain
rights of contribution with respect thereto.

Item 7.  Exemption From Registration Claimed.
------   -----------------------------------

         Not applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits.
------   --------

         See Index to Exhibits, which list of exhibits is incorporated herein by
reference.

Item 9.  Undertakings.
------   ------------

         (a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

         (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

              (i) to include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the
         Securities Act of 1933;

              (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
         after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
         recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
         aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth
         in the registration statement;

              (iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan
         of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement
         or any material change to such information in the registration
         statement;

         provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not
         apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective
         amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by
         the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange
         Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

         (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.

         (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

                                       2
<PAGE>

         (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


                                       3
<PAGE>

                                   SIGNATURES
                                   ----------

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8, and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Sunnyvale, State of California, on the 27nd day
of November, 2000.

                                         ALLIANCE FIBER OPTIC PRODUCTS, INC.


                                         By       /s/ Peter C. Chang
                                           -------------------------------------
                                                      Peter C. Chang
                                                 Chief Executive Officer


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
                                -----------------

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Peter C. Chang and John M. Harland, and
each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments, including
post-effective amendments, to this Registration Statement, and to file the same,
with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents
and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his substitute or
substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

       NAME                            TITLE                             DATE

/s/ Peter C. Chang
----------------------  Chief Executive Officer (Principal     November 27, 2000
  Peter C. Chang        Executive Officer)

/s/ John M. Harland
----------------------  Vice President of Finance and Chief    November 27, 2000
 John M. Harland        Financial Officer (Principal
                        Financial and Accounting Officer)

/s/ R. David Dicioccio
----------------------  Director                               November 27, 2000
  R. David Dicioccio

/s/ Peter T. Morris
----------------------  Director                               November 27, 2000
   Peter T. Morris


----------------------  Director                               November __, 2000
     Michael Tung

 /s/ James C. Yeh
----------------------  Director                               November 27, 2000
     James C. Yeh


                                       4
<PAGE>

                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS
                                -----------------

       Exhibit
       Number          Exhibit
       -------         -------

        5.1            Opinion of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP.

       23.1            Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent
                       Auditors.

       23.2            Consent of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP (included in
                       Exhibit 5.1).

       24.1            Power of Attorney (see page 4).

       99.1*           Amended and Restated Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc.
                       2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

--------------

*    Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to Amendment No. 3 of the
     Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-45482) filed
     on November 1, 2000.


                                       5
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 29, 2000

                                                      Registration No. 333-_____
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                              --------------------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                      UNDER

                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                              --------------------

                       ALLIANCE FIBER OPTIC PRODUCTS, INC.
                       -----------------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

              Delaware                                      77-0417039
-----------------------------------               ------------------------------
  (State or other jurisdiction of                          (I.R.S. Employer
   incorporation or organization)                        Identification No.)

     735 North Pastoria Avenue
           Sunnyvale, CA                                        94085
-----------------------------------               ------------------------------
       (Address of principal                                  (Zip Code)
         executive offices)

      ALLIANCE FIBER OPTIC PRODUCTS, INC. 2000 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the plan)

              PETER C. CHANG                                Copy to:
          Chief Executive Officer                 GABRIELLA A. LOMBARDI, ESQ.
    Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc.          Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
         735 North Pastoria Avenue                    2550 Hanover Street
            Sunnyvale, CA 94085                       Palo Alto, CA 94304
              (408) 736-6900                             (650) 233-4500
------------------------------------------
       (Name, address and telephone
       number of agent for service)

                                     CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Proposed             Proposed           Amount of
    Title of Securities               Amount To         Maximum Offering     Maximum Aggregate     Registration
     To Be Registered               Be Registered      Price Per Share(1)    Offering Price(1)         Fee
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock, $0.001 par value    1,500,000 shares          $8.82                 $13,230,000        $3,493
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(1) Pursuant to Rule 457(h)(i), the proposed maximum offering price per share
and the registration fee has been computed on the basis of the average of the
high and low prices of the Common Stock as reported on the Nasdaq National
Market on November 24, 2000.
--------------------

The Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing in accordance with
Rule 462 under the Securities Act of 1933.
PART I
                                     ------

Item 1.  Plan Information.*
------   ----------------

Item 2.  Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.*
------   -----------------------------------------------------------

*        Information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a)
prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule
428 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") and the Note to Part
I of Form S-8.

                                     PART II
                                     -------

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
------    ---------------------------------------

         The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and
Exchange Commission are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement:

         (a) Registrant's prospectus dated November 21, 2000 and filed on
November 21, 2000 pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act and which
contains audited financial statements for the Registrant's latest fiscal year
for which such statements have been filed.

         (b) The description of Registrant's Common Stock contained in
Registrant's registration statement on Form 8-A, filed October 27, 2000 as
amended November 14, 2000.

         In addition, all documents subsequently filed by Registrant pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then
remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Item 4.  Description of Securities.
------   -------------------------

         Not applicable.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
------   --------------------------------------

         The validity of the shares of common stock offered hereby has been
passed upon for the Registrant by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP, Palo Alto,
California. As of the date of this Registration Statement, an entity in which
attorneys and former attorneys of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP are members and
certain attorneys of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP beneficially own an aggregate
of 60,000 shares of the Registrant's common stock.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
------   -----------------------------------------

         Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides for the
indemnification of officers, directors, and other corporate agents in terms
sufficiently broad to indemnify such persons under certain circumstances for
liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"). Article VIII, Section B of the
Registrant's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (Exhibit 3(i).3
to the Form S-1 Registration Statement) and Article 5 of the Registrant's
Amended and Restated Bylaws (Exhibit 3(ii).3 to the Form S-1 Registration
Statement) provide for indemnification of the Registrant's directors, officers,
employees and other agents to the extent and under the circumstances permitted
by the Delaware General Corporation Law. The Registrant has also entered into
agreements with our directors and officers that will require the Registrant,
among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities that may
arise by reason of their status or services as directors or officers to the
fullest extent not prohibited by law (Exhibit 10.2 to the Form S-1 Registration
Statement).

         The Purchase Agreement and the International Purchase Agreement
(Exhibit 1.1and 1.2, respectively, to the Form S-1 Registration Statement)
provide for indemnification by the Underwriters of the Registrant, its directors
and officers, and by the Registrant of the Underwriters, for certain
liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Act, and afford certain
rights of contribution with respect thereto.

Item 7.  Exemption From Registration Claimed.
------   -----------------------------------

         Not applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits.
------   --------

         See Index to Exhibits, which list of exhibits is incorporated herein by
reference.

Item 9.  Undertakings.
------   ------------

         (a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

         (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

              (i) to include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the
         Securities Act of 1933;

              (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
         after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
         recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
         aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth
         in the registration statement;

              (iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan
         of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement
         or any material change to such information in the registration
         statement;

         provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not
         apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective
         amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by
         the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange
         Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

         (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

         (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.

         (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

                                       2
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                       3
SIGNATURES
                                   ----------

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8, and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Sunnyvale, State of California, on the 27nd day
of November, 2000.

                                         ALLIANCE FIBER OPTIC PRODUCTS, INC.

                                         By       /s/ Peter C. Chang
                                           -------------------------------------
                                                      Peter C. Chang
                                                 Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
                                -----------------

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Peter C. Chang and John M. Harland, and
each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments, including
post-effective amendments, to this Registration Statement, and to file the same,
with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents
and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his substitute or
substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

       NAME                            TITLE                             DATE

/s/ Peter C. Chang
----------------------  Chief Executive Officer (Principal     November 27, 2000
  Peter C. Chang        Executive Officer)

/s/ John M. Harland
----------------------  Vice President of Finance and Chief    November 27, 2000
 John M. Harland        Financial Officer (Principal
                        Financial and Accounting Officer)

/s/ R. David Dicioccio
----------------------  Director                               November 27, 2000
  R. David Dicioccio

/s/ Peter T. Morris
----------------------  Director                               November 27, 2000
   Peter T. Morris

----------------------  Director                               November __, 2000
     Michael Tung

 /s/ James C. Yeh
----------------------  Director                               November 27, 2000
     James C. Yeh

                                       4
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
                                -----------------

       Exhibit
       Number          Exhibit
       -------         -------

        5.1            Opinion of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP.

       23.1            Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent
                       Auditors.

       23.2            Consent of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP (included in
                       Exhibit 5.1).

       24.1            Power of Attorney (see page 4).

       99.1*           Amended and Restated Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc.
                       2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

--------------

*    Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to Amendment No. 3 of the
     Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-45482) filed
     on November 1, 2000.

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