Specialty Optical Fibers for Other Industries & Cross-Over Technologies

High-power delivery through optical fiber has created unprecedented possibilities in a variety of industries. Fiber lasers greatly improve on traditional solid state laser technology and in some cases now make performance possible where it was not with traditional products.

This technology supports the advanced fiber lasers of the future. Designers working in these arenas should contact us as early in the design phase as possible to increase success at creating an integrated, fully optimized product.

Advanced Fiber Lasers
   High Power Continuous Wavelength (CW)
   High Peak Power
   Narrow Linewidth
   High Pulse Energy

OFS holds an extensive portfolio of the patents and intellectual property necessary for developing the latest passive fiber laser subassemblies, and no other company offers as complete a range of capabilities required for their manufacture, including: Bragg gratings, long period gratings, polymers and glass science, fibers, and pump combiners. See our Knowledge Base to review some of the research that has already been done in this cutting edge field by OFS scientists.

What should I order?
Applications for high-power delivery are many and varied. The main criteria to select are: input fiber type (single-mode, multimode, polarization maintaining), size, and NA; output wavelength, fiber type, and dimensions; output power; and finally what level of value-add you need for your subassembly. Please feel free to contact us if you are new to this technology or if your application is unique.

Try one of our standard products, or contact us to learn what others we have available to meet your exact specifications.

1. Power Combiners
2. Cladding Pumped Fiber
3. ErYb Gain Modules or Yb Gain Modules
4. Cladding Pumped Fiber Lasers (CPFL)

In addition to the standard products found here, we can CUSTOMIZE a product to meet your specific need. To do this, please fill out a Worksheet or Contact us.

Sample Applications:

• Laser Delivery
• Laser welding and cutting
• Printing
• Marking
• LIDAR
• Sensing
• Medical
• Remote pumping
• Raman amplification
• General amplification

Airplanes, both commercial and military, and automobiles are the primary users of advanced fiber optic navigation technology. OFS has for years offered a small-diameter, single-mode fiber specifically formulated with the sensitivity properties and bend performance necessary for producing tight coil gyroscopes.

What should I order?
Try CL Micro 1550 GyroSil fiber or contact us to learn what else we have available to meet your exact specifications.

In addition to the standard products found here, we can CUSTOMIZE a product to meet your specific need. To do this, please fill out a Worksheet or Contact us.

Fiber optic sensors can be found in almost any application, from geophysical wells to industrial food processing to medical blood monitoring. The acute precision necessary to measure fractions of a degree in temperature change or attenuation in environments that would corrode or otherwise render copper or other metalics useless can only be accomplished with fiber optics.

For accurate, reliable sensing in high-temperature environments, OFS offers the capability of adding fiber Bragg gratings to the coated fiber used in these applications. Our flyer, Bragg Gratings in Polyimide Coated Fiber, describes this in further detail.

What should I order?
Some sensing applications need to reach around tight bends with minimal optical loss-choose a small diameter fiber. Some require long -term survivability-choose a fiber coated with carbon. Some operate in high-temperature environments-choose a fiber coated with PYROCOAT polyimide. Some must be biocompatible for intrabody use-choose a USP Class VI nontoxic and biocompatible fiber.

Try one of our top three products, or contact us to learn what others we have available to meet your exact specifications.

1. CL PM True 1310 Sensor
2. MM HCS Low OH Fibers
3. Geo New Single Mode Fibers

In addition to the standard products found here, we can CUSTOMIZE a product to meet your specific need. To do this, please fill out a Worksheet or Contact us.

Sample Applications:

• Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS)
• SENSORS »
  
  • Fiber optic strain
  • Pressure
  • Acoustic
  • Undersea depth and temperature
  • Blood gas
  • Pulse oximetry
• Needle-free blood sugar monitoring for diabetics
• Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) technology
• SPECTROSCOPY »
  
  • Near-IR
  • UV
  • Visible
  • FTIR
  • Raman
• Optical pyrometry
• Current sensors
• Radiation analysis