Polarization Maintaining Fiber Optic Patch Cord PM-S405-XP FC/APC-FC/APC Connector 2m Long

Specifications

Insertion Loss: 1.2 dB
Return Loss: 60 dB
Polarization Extinction Ratio (PER): 17 dB
Wavelength Range: 400 – 680 nm
Numerical Aperture (NA): 0.12
Max Optical Power: 300 mW
Connector Type: FC, SC, LC
Model Based Alignment Wavelength (nm): 375, 405, 460, 630
Model Based Wavelength Range Options (nm): 350~460, 400~680, 460~700, 620~950
Cutoff Wavelength (nm): 315±25, 380±20, 410±40, 570±50
Mode Field Diameters (um): 2.3@350nm, 3.3±0.5@405nm, 3.3±0.5@515nm, 4.5±0.5@630nm
Insertion Loss (dB) Max.: 1.5, 1.5, 1.5, 1.2
Insertion Loss (dB) Typ.: 1.2, 1.2, 1.2, 1.0
Return Loss (dB) UPC: 50
Return Loss (dB) APC: 60
Extinction Ratio (dB) Min.: 15, 15, 18, 20
Extinction Ratio (dB) Typ.: 17, 17, 20, 22
Max. Optical Power (mW): 300
Operation Temperature (°C): 0 to +70
Storage Temperature (°C): -40 to +85
Cord Length (m): 2
Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): TL-PMPC-FCASFCAS-40530LBE/09HBE0020M
FindLight SKU: FL-24322

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Features

  • High Extinction Ratio: Ensures superior performance in maintaining polarization, crucial for high-precision applications.
  • Low Insertion Loss: Guarantees minimal signal loss, enhancing the efficiency of optical networks.
  • High Return Loss: Provides excellent signal reflection characteristics, improving overall system performance.
  • Versatile Connector Options: Available with FC, SC, LC, ST, MU, MPO, MTP, and other connector types, with PC or APC polishing.
  • Customizable Fiber Alignment: Slow or fast axis alignment to the connector key available upon request.
  • Durable Construction: Offered with 250μm bare fiber, 900μm buffered fiber, 2.0mm or 3.0mm cable, and armored cable options.
  • Wide Operating Temperature Range: Operates efficiently between 0°C to +70°C, with storage temperatures from -40°C to +85°C.
  • High Optical Power Handling: Supports up to 300mW of optical power, suitable for high-power applications.
  • Precision Key Options for FC Connectors: Available in narrow key (1.97~2.02mm) or wide key (2.09~2.14mm) configurations.
  • Quality Fiber Types: PM-S405-XP. Utilizes PM panda fiber from leading manufacturers like Nufern, Corning, Fujikura, and YOFC.

Applications

  • Coherent optical communication systems: Maintains a stable polarization state for coherent receivers, transmitters, I/Q modulators, and high-capacity optical networking links.
  • EDFA and fiber amplifier modules: Ideal for erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and polarization-sensitive amplifier assemblies requiring low insertion loss and high extinction ratio.
  • High-speed fiber optic transmission: Supports reliable signal integrity in high-speed transmission devices, optical transceivers, and lab-to-system interconnects.
  • External optical modulators: Used with LiNbO3 modulators, phase modulators, intensity modulators, and electro-optic modulation systems where input polarization must be controlled.
  • Interferometric fiber optic sensors: Suitable for Mach-Zehnder, Michelson, Sagnac, and Fabry-Perot interferometer-based sensing systems that require stable polarization.
  • Fiber optic gyroscopes: Used in FOG systems and inertial navigation applications where polarization stability is critical for accurate phase measurement.
  • Integrated optics and photonic circuits: Provides polarization-maintaining fiber connection for silicon photonics, planar lightwave circuits, photonic integrated circuits, and integrated optical test platforms.
  • Optical switching systems: Suitable for polarization-sensitive optical switches, test benches, and fiber routing systems requiring consistent polarization alignment.
  • Quantum optics and quantum communication: Used in quantum key distribution, entangled photon experiments, single-photon systems, and polarization-encoded optical setups.
  • Laser diode and fiber laser coupling: Connects polarization-sensitive laser sources, seed lasers, pump lasers, and fiber laser modules while preserving the launched polarization state.
  • Test and measurement equipment: Ideal for optical laboratories, component characterization, polarization extinction ratio testing, optical spectrum analysis, and fiber optic measurement setups.
  • Polarization-sensitive instrumentation: Used in optical systems that include polarizers, polarization controllers, polarization beam combiners, polarization beam splitters, and polarization analyzers.
  • Biomedical and imaging systems: Suitable for OCT systems, confocal imaging, spectroscopy platforms, and laser delivery systems where polarization stability improves measurement repeatability.
  • Research and development laboratories: Commonly used in university, industrial, and government R&D environments for precision optical experiments across visible, near-infrared, and 2 µm wavelength ranges.
  • Visible and near-infrared laser systems: Supports applications at common PM fiber wavelengths including 405 nm, 460 nm, 630 nm, 780 nm, 980 nm, 1064 nm, 1300 nm, 1550 nm, and 2000 nm.
  • Telecom and datacom optical modules: Enables stable polarization interconnection in polarization-sensitive telecom components, coherent modules, and high-performance fiber optic networks.
  • Optical sensing and metrology: Used in precision metrology, strain sensing, acoustic sensing, current sensing, and distributed fiber optic sensing systems.
  • Microwave photonics systems: Suitable for RF-over-fiber links, photonic signal processing, optoelectronic oscillators, and analog optical transmission requiring controlled polarization.
  • PM fiber component interconnects: Provides reliable connection between PM isolators, PM circulators, PM couplers, PM WDMs, PM splitters, PM collimators, and other polarization-maintaining fiber components.
  • OEM optical assemblies: Designed for integration into commercial optical instruments, laser modules, sensing equipment, communication systems, and custom photonic assemblies.

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HTS Code: 8544.70.0000
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