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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
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Specialty Optical Fibers for Telecommunications
OFS offers a wide selection of specialty optical products that are widely used in components and modules for optical communication systems. Our products enable high-speed, long-distance, and wide-bandwidth optical communications with the high reliability we’ve demonstrated with our successful track record in submarine applications. Product lines for this application are qualified under Telcordia requirements.
What should I order?
OFS offers many products that meet these criteria. Try one of our recommended products, or contact us to learn what others we have available to meet your exact specifications.
Erbium-Doped Fiber is a critical component for the amplification of optical transmission signals. OFS offers a complete line of erbium-doped fiber to meet your specific requirements for C- and L- Band amplifiers, as well as ASE Sources. Together with our OASiX® Optical Amplifier Simulation Software, our experienced and knowledgeable customer support staff can help you to determine which OFS erbium-doped fiber is best for you.
ClearLite 980-16 Fiber, formerly known as "980 Coupler Fiber", with an NA of 0.16, has been optimized for WDM pump/signal couplers used in EDFAs. ClearLite 980-20 Fiber is a new product that delivers the best bend performance of all the ClearLite 980 Photonic Fibers. Both fibers guide light at wavelengths of 980 and 1550 nm. This allows WDM pump/signal couplers to combine the pump power at 980 nm and the transmission signal at 1550 nm into one fiber.
ClearLite TruePhase Fibers
OFS Specialty Photonics Division offers a full line of ClearLite Polarization-Maintaining Photonic Fibers, including TruePhase fibers at the 980 nm wavelength with both standard 400 µm reduced buffer 245 µm sizes and a Micro
80 µm size. TruePhase 980 fiber is designed for use in integrated EDFA modules. The fiber can be used to pigtail 980 pumps and to construct PM pump combiners or PM pump/signal WDM couplers.
RightWave dispersion compensating modules (DSCM) cover a wide range of applications over a broad wavelength spectrum. RightWave dispersion compensating modules offer superior PMD performance and excellent slope matching for any transmission fiber type, operating in any band. OFS RightWave dispersion compensating modules are available with any dispersion value required from -10 to -2000 ps/nm in either C- or L-band.
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:
- Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFAs)
- Pump laser pigtails
- Raman amplification
- Lithium Niobate modulators
- Transponders and Transceivers
- Couplers—various types
- Polarization-maintaining components
- PM isolators
- Hermetic feedthroughs
- Fiber Bragg Gratings
- Beam splitters and multiplexors
- Miniaturized devices
- Switches
- Power combiners (aka Tapered Fiber Bundles)
- Fiber to the home (FTTH)
- Fiber to the office and other venues (FTTX)
- CATV
- Free space optics
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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.
