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High-Power Product Line
There are 4 groups of high-power products available standard from
OFS: Power Combiners,
Cladding Pumped and Large Mode Area Fibers,
Cladding Pumped Fiber Gain Modules, and Cladding Pumped Fiber Lasers (CPFLs),
For a general overview of all our
high-power capabilities, see our
High-Power Brochure.
Available standard products are described in the following sections.
POWER COMBINERS
These devices take 7 or 19 input fibers and fuse them to combine their powers into a single output. Variations are available as all-multimode pump fiber inputs or with a single-mode or polarization-maintaining signal fiber input.
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SM Power Combiners |
Single-mode configurations of 7:1 or 19:1 inputs, NAs of 0.15 or 0.22, and undoped output fibers of 0.45 NA with 125 or 200 µm clads.
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MM Power Combiners
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Multimode configurations of 7:1 or 19:1 inputs, NAs of 0.15 or 0.22, and undoped output fibers of 0.45 NA with 125 or 200 µm clads.
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PM Power Combiners
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Polarization-maintaining 7:1 configuration, NAs of 0.15 or 0.22, and undoped output fibers of 0.45 NA with 125 or 200 µm clad polarization-maintaining fibers for use in 1 or 1.5µm applications.
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CLADDING PUMPED AND LARGE MODE AREA FIBERS
Double clad fibers doped with various rare earth elements, such as Erbium, Ytterbium, an Erbium/Ytterbium combination and others, results in desirable properties for end fibers used in certain applications. We add these elements and control the amounts at the preform creation stage in our Somerset, New Jersey, facility.
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Yb Cladding Pumped Fibers
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Ytterbium doped multimode fibers available in either 125 or 200 µm clad sizes for use in Gain Modules, Power Combiners or Cladding Pumped Fiber Lasers.
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ErYb Cladding Pumped Fibers
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Erbium/Ytterbium doped double clad fibers available in 125 µm clad size for use in Power Combiners or Cladding Pumped Fiber Lasers.
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PM Yb Cladding Pumped Fibers
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Ytterbium doped, polarization-maintaining double clad fibers available in either 125 or 200 µm clad sizes for use in Gain Modules or Cladding Pumped Fiber Lasers.
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PM ErYb Cladding Pumped Fibers
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Erbium/Ytterbium doped, polarization-maintaining double clad fibers available in 125 µm clad size for use in Gain Modules or Cladding Pumped Fiber Lasers.
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Yb Large Mode Area Fibers
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Ytterbium-doped, large mode area (LMA), cladding pumped fibers in standard and polarization-maintaining designs for use in high-power fiber lasers.
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ErYb Large Mode Area Fibers
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Erbium- and Ytterbium-doped, large mode area (LMA), cladding pumped fibers in standard and polarization-maintaining designs for use in high-power fiber lasers.
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CLADDING PUMPED FIBER GAIN MODULES
When a Power combiner is coupled with a cladding pumped output fiber, the resulting Gain Modules are used for communications, cable TV, and remote pumping.
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ErYb Gain Modules
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Erbium and Ytterbium doped assemblies including a Power
Combiner and Cladding Pumped Fiber. Output gains of 2 or 5 Watts
are achieved. Standard and polarization-maintaining versions.
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Yb Gain Modules
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Ytterbium doped assemblies including a Power Combiner and Cladding Pumped Fiber. Output gains of 2 Watts are achieved.
Standard and polarization-maintaining versions.
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CLADDING PUMPED FIBER LASERS
Fiber lasers provide better beam profile characteristics, higher wallplug efficiencies, compact footprints, turnkey operation, longer reliability, and maintenance-free operation. They also provide much higher energies during pulsed operation and at higher repetition rates.
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Cladding Pumped Fiber Lasers (CPFL)
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Multimode Power configurations of 7:1 or 19:1 inputs, different sized cladding
pumped fiber outputs and fiber Bragg gratings create output
powers of 2 to 10 Watts at operating wavelengths of 1064, 1083,
1100, or 1117 nanometers.
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Avioptics
Avioptics harsh environment cable optimizes high-performance aircraft and military vehicle applications. The cable design is based on 200 µm fibers and adds coating and strength members especially for the corrosive environments encountered on aircraft, including jet fuel, oil. Solvents, and hydrolytic liquids.
AquaLink
AquaLink coating is our newest defense against water in outdoor cabling applications.
FlightGuide
The FlightGuide family of aerospace fibers and cables offers high temperature and strength in graded-index fiber-based constructions. Multiple coating and cabling layers specialize the cables for military and aerospace use. Some FlightGuide fibers are available sold separately.
HCS
Hard Clad Silica (HCS) was invented by OFS scientists and now serves as the industry standard cladding material for optical glass fibers. HCS cladding imparts unusual strength to fiber and makes it easy to crimp and cleave connectors directly to the fiber using a hand tool in the field instead of more complex epoxy/polish methods.
OASiX
Optical Amplifier Simulation Software from OFS, OASiX is packaged with erbium-doped fibers sold for use in EDFAs. This software and graphical interface allows the designer to plug in modeling parameters shipped with the fiber and begin on-screen simulations. This reduces design time by predicting the performance of EDFA systems including optical components such as filters, isolators, and reflectors.
ST
This connector type features a bayonet-style nut and is commonly used in telecommunications applications.
TruePhase
TruePhase is the name to remember for all of OFS’s non-doped polarization maintaining fibers. These are single mode fibers optimized for different wavelengths and cladding size requirements.
V-System
This easy-to-use connectorization system simply plugs in with a reassuring click. It is available for simplex cables, or with a duplex latch housing for connectorizing zipcord. Connectorizing HCS coated fibers with V-System connectors takes less than 2 minutes per end when using the compatible OFS crimp and cleave kit.
ClearLite
One of the most complete, diverse lines of single-mode optical fiber you can find, ClearLite encompasses several families of photonic fibers, each optimized for different applications: 980, 1310 & 1550, Micro, Specialty Coated, Short Wavelength, and Polarization-Maintaining.
GyroSil
Designed specifically for gyroscopes and similar navigational instrumentation, GyroSil singlemode fiber has a small NA of 0.17 and reduced 80 µm cladding diameter to accommodate the tight bend radii and coiling designs inherent in gyroscopic and sensor applications.
PYROCOAT
PYROCOAT polyimide is our premier fiber coating for high-temperature applications. In recent years, we have further refined the polyimide properties to create new versions of PYROCOAT optimized for steam or chemical resistance. When applied over a hermetic carbon layer, it provides the best protection in the industry against the harshest environments.
UltraSil
Known in the medical industry for years for its ultra low water peak useful for high-power delivery, our UltraSil fibers are made from unique preforms that deliver both low OH and one of the highest NAs achievable with a silica cladding. These fibers are also finding new application in sensing when further coated with high-temperature polyimide.
Specification Sheet not yet available. Please contact our facility in Somerset, NJ, for more detail.
