FiberTech Fluorine-Doped Step-Index Preforms

Specifications

Core Composition: SiO2
Cladding Composition: SiO2 /F
Preform Diameter (O.D.): 20 - 70 mm
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Features

  • High-Quality Preforms: Developed using highly pure fused silica materials, ensuring top-notch quality for high-performance special fibers and standard fibers.
  • Customizable Waveguide Design: Tailored to meet specific customer demands, from prototype to series production, for high data rates or high-power laser transmission.
  • Versatile Core Profile Options: Choose between step-index and graded-index core profiles, with dopant options including Germanium, Fluorine, Boron, or Rare-earth elements.
  • Innovative Production Techniques: Utilizes advanced MCVD (inner coating) and PBVD (outer coating) processes for creating high-quality preforms.
  • Strict Quality Monitoring: Each preform undergoes rigorous quality checks to ensure optimal performance during fiber drawing for demanding applications.
  • Graded-Index Multimode Preforms: Available in 50/125 and 62.5/125 designs, suitable for high-performance multimode fibers.
  • Optional Preform Handle: Graded-index preforms can be delivered with a handle for easy fixing in the drawing tower upon request.
  • Bubble Size Control: Strict control of bubble sizes in the core and cladding, ensuring no bubbles in the core and limited acceptable sizes in the cladding.
  • Optimal Refractive Index Profile: Nearly parabolic refractive index profile with specific index deltas for different types, ensuring precise performance.
  • Numerical Aperture Precision: Offers precise numerical aperture values with tight tolerances for different preform types.
  • Dimensional Accuracy: Ensures accurate outer diameter (O.D.) with minimal tolerances from rod to rod and within a single rod.

Applications

  • Telecommunications: Manufacturing high-bandwidth multimode and singlemode fibers
  • Laser Delivery Systems: Step-index fibers for UV-VIS-IR laser transmission
  • Spectroscopy: Specialty fibers for analytical applications
  • Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) Inscription: Photosensitive germanium-doped preforms
  • Medical and Industrial Lasers: High-power fiber delivery solutions
  • Research and Development: Custom fiber preforms for advanced optical studies
  • Microlithography: Preforms for stepper lenses, photomasks, and wafer processing