OVERVIEW

These pure silica multimode fibers offer both a large core diameter and ultra-high numerical aperture, making them particularly suited for power delivery and light collection for spectroscopy applications, spanning from the visible range to the near-infrared. Their design allows for efficient light transmission and collection, making them ideal for a variety of high-performance optical applications.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Pure silica core
• Multimode
• Ultra-high numerical aperture

Applications

• Power delivery
• Spectroscopy

OVERVIEW

These fibers display endlessly single mode behavior and do not exhibit a high order mode cutoff. They are ideally suited for excellent mode delivery across a broad wavelength range, from 400 nm to 1700 nm. A dedicated version with lower solarization in the visible range is available, utilizing specific silica that offers excellent transmission resistance against radiation and high power visible light. This fiber is perfect for high-performance mode delivery in the visible spectrum.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Singlemode over the entire wavelength range
• Standard and PM (Polarization Maintaining) versions available
• Visible-Grade silica version available (-VIS)

Applications

• Singlemode light delivery

OVERVIEW

Optical signals in hollow core photonic bandgap fibers are guided through an air core surrounded by a high air filling factor PBG microstructured region (>90%). This design provides significantly reduced material nonlinearities since more than 95% of the optical power propagates in air. Additionally, the air and undoped silica construction offers excellent temperature immunity, making these fibers ideal for high-performance sensing and metrology applications.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Air core with an ultra-low nonlinear coefficient
• Low background losses
• Low dispersion in the center of the transmission band

Applications

• Power delivery
• Fiber sensors
• Nonlinear applications (pulse compression, shaping)

OVERVIEW

Optical signals in anti-resonant hollow core fibers propagate through an air core surrounded by a single ring of anti-resonant tube elements. Guidance relies on anti-resonance from thin glass membranes formed by the non-touching tubes surrounding the hollow core. The extremely low overlap of guided power with the surrounding silica, less than 2×10^-5, combined with the mode effective area, results in record material non-linearity for this fiber design.

HIGHLIGHTS

• High damage threshold
• Nearly single-mode guidance
• Ultra-low dispersion in the transmission bands

Applications

• Low latency data transmission
• Gas-filled AR hollow core fiber laser
• Molecular tracing and gas detection
• High power delivery for pico- and sub-picosecond optical pulses

OVERVIEW

These fibers offer low dispersion at the pump wavelength and high numerical aperture, making them particularly well-suited for efficient supercontinuum generation with Ti-sapphire and YAG pulsed pump sources.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Pure silica core with low background losses
• Small effective area with a high nonlinear coefficient
• Dispersion optimized for pumping near 780 nm and 1060 nm

Applications

• Supercontinuum generation
• Frequency comb generation
• Fiber gyroscope
• PM pigtailing

OVERVIEW

Based on our original telecom experience with Twincore fibers for Add/Drop multiplexers, iXblue, in collaboration with Photonics Bretagne, now offers Multicore fibers for shape and temperature/strain sensing. These fibers are ideal for applications where reducing the global footprint of cables and connectors is necessary. Multicore fibers feature photosensitive cores, allowing for Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) inscription and can be customized to meet specific customer requirements.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Multiple cores
• Shape sensing
• Photosensitive core for FBG inscription
• Suitable for applications requiring reduced space
• Custom designs available from 4 to 12 cores
• Active & rare earth doped multicore fibers available upon request

Applications

• Shape sensing
• Temperature and strain sensors
• Telecoms