Specialty Optical Fiber Products

Product	Description
Metalized Pigtails	Metalization allows for fiber ends to be soldered directly into electro-optic packages for reliable, hermetic seals and compact connections. Other applications are also made possible. Any silica-clad fiber or ribbon cable can be metalized.
Soldered Ferrule Assemblies	This process takes metalization one step further, adding a high-precision tubular alignment ferrule and/or a hermetic strain relief ferrule to create a sub-assembly ready for incorporating into small packages.

OFS is a leader in developing gratings technology, with an IP Portfolio of 59 gratings-related patents. These include fundamental patents relating to hydrogen and deuterium loading, temperature annealing of gratings and write-through coatings. Previously reserved only for OFS-manufactured devices, OFS now offers the following grating manufacturing capabilities:

• reflector gratings
• dispersion compensating gratings
• blazed gratings
• apodized gratings
• fiber arrays

Our expertise in both standard and specialty fiber design and manufacturing means we understand fiber from the inside out. OFS can write gratings in the fiber of your choice and has the capability to apply write-through coatings on fibers manufactured by OFS. This is very useful in the manufacture of grating arrays, where multiple gratings are written in a single length of fiber.

This technology now extends to polyimide coated fibers, where previously writing gratings was not possible. OFS has developed a system for stripping, writing the gratings, and recoating. Using this technology, high-temperature fibers can now be used with grating in applications such as oil and gas sensing, structural sensing, industrial processing or avionics sensing. Our flyer, Bragg Gratings in Polyimide Coated Fiber, describes this in further detail.

Still an area of active research, gratings development is also a key focus of OFS Laboratories. This premier R&D facility can provide chirped gratings, long period gratings, multimode and higher order mode gratings and thermally tunable gratings. Talk to us about your requirements and we may be able to provide a novel fiber/grating combination that will exceed your performance expectations.

For a broader overview, see our Fiber Bragg Gratings Brochure.

To submit your specific requirements for gratings, please fill out a worksheet.

Five types of connectors are available for OFS fibers and cables. These connectors are field-installable with our crimp and cleave systems. Complete compatibilities for cable, fiber, splice bushings, crimp-and-cleave termination kits, and other accessories are listed on the individual specification sheets.

Product	Description
V-Pin Connectors	Crimp and cleave compatible for 200 or 400 µm HCS Low OH Step-Index Fiber. Installation in less than 2 minutes per connection. Recommended applications: Laser power delivery, avionics communications, factory automation systems, medical assemblies, near-IR spectroscopy.
ST Connectors	Crimp and cleave compatible for 200 or 400 µm HCS Low OH Step-Index Fiber. Installation in less than 2 minutes per connection. Recommended applications: Laser power delivery, avionics communications, factory automation systems, near-IR spectroscopy.
SMA Connectors	Crimp and cleave compatible for 200 or 400 µm HCS Low OH Step-Index Fiber. Installation in less than 2 minutes per connection. Recommended applications: Laser power delivery, avionics communications, factory automation systems, near-IR spectroscopy.
Harsh Environment SMA Connectors	Crimp and cleave compatible for 200 HCS Avioptics fiber optic cable. MIL-C-83522B compatible. A complete Qualification Engineering Report was done for these connectors. To view the results, click here: Harsh Environment SMA Connector Qualification Recommended applications: Data communication links, local area networks (LANs), transportation control, and communications.
ST SMA Connectors for Factory5
F07 Connectors	Crimp and cleave compatible for 200 µm HCS fiber optic cable. Installation in less than 2 minutes per connection. Recommended applications: Programmable logic control systems, data communication links, factory automation, local area networks (LANs), high speed patching and switching systems, transportation control and communication systems, high-end audio systems, industrial applications.

OFS Crimp and Cleave termination kits make easy work of connectorizing your specialty optical fibers right in the field without the use of sensitive and messy epoxy polish routines. In most cases, it takes less than two minutes per end with the portable tools contained in these kits. Individual replacement parts are also available; these separate part numbers are listed on the complete kit specification sheets.

Product	Description
Insertion Loss Test Kits Insertion Loss Test Kit Instructions	Test your field terminations quickly and easily with this small and accurate battery-operated kit. Different sets available for different types of connectors and fiber sizes.
V-Pin CC Kit Crimp and Cleave Instruction Booklets: V-Pin 200 V-Pin 400	Crimp and cleave termination kit and compatible parts and accessories for 200 or 400 µm HCS Low OH Step-Index Fiber. Installation in less than 2 minutes per connection.
ST SMA CC Kit (aka TK-7) Crimp and Cleave Instruction Booklet for 62.5 µm Crimp and Cleave Instruction Booklet for 200 or 400 µm	Crimp and cleave termination kit and compatible parts and accessories for HCS Low OH Step-Index Fiber. One kit has an interchangeable tool for use with either ST or SMA style connectors.
Harsh Environment SMA CC Kit Crimp and Cleave Instruction Booklet	Crimp and cleave termination kit and compatible parts and accessories for 200 HCS Avioptics fiber optic cable.
ST SMA CC Kit for Factory5	Crimp and cleave termination kit and compatible parts and accessories for 200 Factory5 cable.
F07 CC Kit Crimp and Cleave Instruction Booklet	Crimp and cleave termination kit and compatible parts and accessories for 200 µm HCS fiber optic cable.

For other assemblies, please refer to our custom Worksheets for Medical Assemblies or Communications Assemblies.

Product	Description
Preterminated HCS Assemblies	1-, 3-, and 5-meter lengths of select HCS cable, terminated on both ends with the connector-type of your choice, available standard.

For a broader overview, see our Assembly Capabilities Brochure.