OVERVIEW

Ideal for C and L Band amplifiers

The amplification of optical transmission signals is enabled through our high efficiency Erbium doped fibers. Our wide range of Erbium doped optical fibers allows for tailored optical amplifiers (EDFAs) performance based on your requirements.

iXblue’s Erbium Doped Fibers (EDF) products have been optimized to fulfill the exigency of high efficiency and low noise EDFAs in the C & L bands.

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Benefits & Features

• Low noise figure & flat gain shape
• High efficiency
• Low splice loss
• Highly consistent spectroscopy
• 80 µm reduced cladding on request
• PM Panda structure

Applications

• 1.5 µm lasers and amplifiers
• EDFA
• Fiber lasers
• Small footprint amplifier

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For fiber amplifiers and lasers @ 1μm

Our company offers a large choice of Ytterbium single clad and dual clad optical fibers to address a variety of laser performance requirements.

iXblue’s Ytterbium doped fibers have been designed to provide low noise and high optical conversion efficiency in fiber lasers and amplifiers.

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Benefits & Features

• High pump and consistent absorption
• Low M²
• High efficiency

Applications

• 1 µm CW and pulsed lasers
• 1 µm pre-amplifiers

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For fiber lasers from 1.9 to 2.2 µm

iXblue’s Thulium doped fiber products have been developed for core pumped fiber lasers and amplifiers. High power lasers @ 2 microns need a reliable and efficient Thulium doped fiber.

HIGHLIGHTS

Benefits & Features

• CW and pulsed fiber lasers @ 2 µm
• High pump and consistent absorption
• Low M²
• Large mode area
• High efficiency
• High Tm₂0₃ concentration

Applications

• 2 µm CW & pulsed lasers
• 2 µm amplifiers

Main Specifications

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For fiber lasers from 1.9 to 2.2 µm

iXblue carries a full range of Holmium doped optical fibers for amplifiers and fiber lasers. Our single clad Holmium doped fiber can be pumped by a Thulium doped fiber laser with direct core pumping. Moreover, our double clad Holmium doped fiber is available for high efficiency multi-mode pump coupling.

For high power CW and pulsed lasers ~2 µm

Triple clad design to be used in high power regime for amplifiers and fiber lasers configuration.

HIGHLIGHTS

Benefits & Features

• CW and pulsed fiber lasers @ 2 µm
• High pump and consistent absorption
• Large mode area
• High efficiency
• High Tm₂0₃ concentration
• Low M² and NA
• Heat dissipation
• Eye-safe lasers

Applications

• 2 µm CW & pulsed lasers
• 2 µm amplifiers
• Military and commercial LIDAR
• Laser weapon

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For fiber lasers from 1.9 to 2.2 µm

iXblue proposes a wide range of Thulium/Holmium doped optical fibers for amplifiers and fiber lasers.

For high power CW and pulsed lasers ~2 µm

Triple clad design for use in high power amplifiers and fiber lasers.

HIGHLIGHTS

Benefits & Features

• CW and pulsed fiber lasers @ 2 µm
• High pump and consistent absorption
• Low M² and NA
• Large mode area
• High efficiency
• High Tm₂0₃ concentration
• Heat dissipation
• Eye-safe lasers

Applications

• 2 µm CW & pulsed lasers
• 2 µm amplifiers
• Military and commercial LIDAR
• Laser weapon

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For fiber laser between 890 – 1100 nm

iXblue Photonics offers a complete range of Neodymium fibers with some unique properties.

iXblue Photonics Neodymium Aluminosilicate double clad fibers have been developed to maximize fiber efficiency through a precisely controlled host composition. Compared to a standard Neodymium fiber, the 1.06-micron emission is reduced through careful fiber design optimization.

Our double clad fibers are routinely tested to various parameters such as photodarkening and environmental behavior.

Single clad fibers are also proposed and would be ideal to build seeder sources.

HIGHLIGHTS

Benefits & Features

• Host composition optimized for high energy efficiency and low clustering
• Low splicing losses
• High NA, High performance low-index cladding
• Low background losses
• Low macrobending losses at operating wavelength

Applications

• 0.9 to 1.064 µm fiber lasers
• Seeder source at 10xx nm

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For pump and signal delivery

iXblue’s passive fibers are used in standard and harsh environments for applications in biotechnology, oil & gas, or nuclear physics.

Our passive fiber product line includes a range of polarization maintaining fibers, single and multi-mode fibers, photosensitive fibers, and double clad fibers.

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Benefits & Features

• Pure Silica SM fiber Core
• Photosensitive SM fiber for FBG
• PM available
• Acrylate, Silicone, Polyimide, or Carbon Coated fibers

Applications

• Fiber lasers and amplifiers

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For space grade fiber amplifiers

The need for new earth and universe observation satellites is becoming more critical, with challenges in the hostile space environment where components are exposed to ionizing radiation. Longer missions, distant satellites for deep space sensing, and new telecommunication demands necessitate stronger photonic devices and components to withstand ionizing radiation.

iXblue has produced more than 20 flying navigation systems equipped with our fibers and components. We have developed extensive experience in the qualification of such devices in collaboration with end users.

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Benefits & Features

• Er doped fiber: gain degradation < 0.25 dB / 100 krad with 30 dB gain EDFA
• Er/Yb doped fiber: gain degradation < 1.5 dB / 100 krad with 10 W amplifier design
• 6 & 12 µm core
• Panda PM and associated passive fibers also available
• High cumulated irradiation dose compatibility

Applications

• Fiber lasers and amplifiers
• Space grade amplifiers and lasers
• Harsh environment amplifiers and lasers

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The IXF-PDF & IXF-PDF-PM fiber series are Phosphorous P-Doped fibers specially designed to achieve very high Raman gain at 1.48 microns for high-power pumping of Erbium doped fibers. P-Doped Fibers offer a Raman shifted gain that is three times higher than that of germanium-doped fibers.

The primary application is to produce high-power sources at 1240 and 1480 nm, which can be used as pump lasers in O-band and C-band fiber amplifiers, respectively. Laser diodes are typically limited to ~200 mW of optical output power, while Raman lasers can generate up to 1 W. For 1310 nm Raman fiber amplifiers, the Raman Fiber features very low loss, making it a good alternative to 1480 nm laser diode sources, which are limited to 100 to 200 mW output power compared to the 1-watt Raman laser alternative.

IXF-PDF fibers are efficiently pumped by several tens of watts of Ytterbium PM Double-clad fiber lasers with operating wavelengths between 1040 to 1120 nm. With Germanium Raman fibers, achieving the third (1240 nm) and the sixth Stokes (1480 nm) requires complex design due to multiple internal cavities. When pumping the IXF-PDF-PM series with a high-power Ytterbium 1060 nm laser, the 1240 and 1480 nm lasers are obtained directly at the first and second Stokes, simplifying the design.

Due to the Raman scattering peak at 1320 cm^-1, the IXF-PDF series P-doped fibers can also generate signal band light centered at 1.5 µm via stimulated Raman scattering with a 1.3 µm pump light source. The Raman gain depends on the power transfer from the optical pump power to the optical power at signal wavelengths (Stokes wavelengths) and is strongly influenced by the effective area, intrinsic fiber losses, and dopant concentrations.

The IXF-PDF series have been optimized to offer the best trade-off between a small effective area, a high level of Phosphorous P₂O₅ dopants in the core of the optical fiber, and an optimized numerical aperture to increase the overlap of the fundamental mode with the fiber core, thereby enhancing Raman amplification efficiency.

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Benefits & Features

• Raman Gain Efficiency (typical): 2.5 (W·km)^-1
• High P₂O₅ concentration
• Low attenuation
• Good splicing losses and low macrobending losses

Applications

• Raman Laser
• Raman Amplifier

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Multicore doped fibers represent a unique foundation for next-generation telecom fiber amplifiers. Leveraging our extensive experience with Twincore fibers used in Add/Drop multiplexers, iXblue has developed this distinctive 12-core Erbium-Ytterbium co-doped fiber.

The core composition and the number of cores have been optimized to deliver superior efficiency and reduced electrical power consumption compared to standard single-core pumping schemes.

Having 12 cores within the same fiber is also ideal for applications where multiple signals need to be bundled in phase for coherent combining.

HIGHLIGHTS

Benefits & Features

• 12-core Er/Yb
• Clad pumping
• Reduced overall electrical power consumption
• Homogeneous core composition
• Active & passive fibers available

Applications

• Telecom fiber amplifiers
• 1.5 µm laser & amplifier