Polarization Maintaining Fiber Optic Patch Cord PM1550-XP FC/APC-FC/APC 5m Long

• 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) configuration.
• Quality Fiber Types: PM-S405-XP. Utilizes PM panda fiber from leading manufacturers like Nufern, Corning, Fujikura, and YOFC.

Applications for Polarization Maintaining Patch Cord

• Coherent optical communication systems: Maintains a stable polarization state for coherent transmitters, receivers, modulators, and high-speed fiber optic communication links.
• EDFA and fiber amplifier modules: Used in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and other optical amplifier assemblies where polarization stability, low insertion loss, and high return loss are required.
• External optical modulators: Ideal for connecting lithium niobate modulators, electro-optic modulators, phase modulators, and intensity modulators requiring precise polarization alignment.
• Interferometric fiber optic sensors: Suitable for fiber interferometers, gyroscopes, acoustic sensors, hydrophones, and precision measurement systems that depend on stable polarization performance.
• Fiber optic gyroscopes: Supports polarization-sensitive fiber gyro assemblies used in navigation, aerospace, defense, and inertial sensing applications.
• Integrated optics and photonic circuits: Provides reliable coupling into planar lightwave circuits, silicon photonics devices, waveguides, and polarization-sensitive photonic integrated circuits.
• High-speed optical transmission devices: Designed for high-speed telecom, datacom, and test systems where polarization maintaining fiber patch cables are needed for signal stability.
• Optical switching systems: Used in polarization-sensitive optical switches, routing modules, wavelength-selective switches, and fiber optic switching networks.
• Laser diode and fiber laser systems: Provides stable polarization delivery for diode lasers, seed lasers, fiber lasers, ultrafast lasers, and narrow-linewidth laser sources.
• PM fiber pigtailing and device interconnection: Suitable for connecting polarization maintaining components such as PM couplers, PM isolators, PM circulators, PM WDMs, and PM splitters.
• Quantum optics and quantum communication: Used in quantum key distribution, entangled photon experiments, single-photon systems, and polarization-sensitive quantum photonics setups.
• Test and measurement equipment: Ideal for optical benches, polarization analyzers, optical spectrum analyzers, bit-error-rate test systems, and laboratory fiber optic test setups.
• Polarization-sensitive instrumentation: Supports measurement instruments requiring a fixed slow-axis or fast-axis fiber alignment to the connector key.
• Biomedical and life science photonics: Used in OCT systems, fluorescence instruments, spectroscopy systems, microscopy platforms, and laser delivery systems requiring stable polarization.
• LiDAR and sensing systems: Suitable for polarization-maintaining optical paths in coherent LiDAR, Doppler LiDAR, distributed sensing, and precision distance measurement systems.
• Microwave photonics: Used in RF-over-fiber links, photonic signal processing, analog optical links, and phase-sensitive microwave photonic systems.
• Research and university laboratories: Reliable PM fiber optic patch cord solution for experimental optics, laser alignment, interferometry, and advanced photonics research.
• Aerospace and defense optical systems: Supports robust polarization maintaining fiber connections in sensing, guidance, navigation, secure communication, and laser systems.
• Telecom and datacom component testing: Used for evaluating polarization-dependent loss, modulator performance, amplifier modules, transceivers, and passive fiber optic components.
• Visible, near-infrared, and infrared laser delivery: Applicable across multiple wavelength ranges including UV/visible, 780 nm, 980 nm, 1064 nm, 1300 nm, 1550 nm, and 2000 nm PM fiber systems.