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Specialty fibers facility – MCVD and glass preform working lathes

Facility/Lab: Specialty silica fibers

Main tool #1 name: Our MCVD uses fused silica of high purity and doping elements from gaseous phase chelate

Rare earth dopants, germanium, phosphorus, aluminum, fluor, boron and more

Main tool #2 name: Horizontal glass working lathe for collapsing and over-cladding (sleeving)

  • Customized clad/core ratio
  • Multi mode and single mode fiber laser development and manufacturing

Main tool #3 name: Vertical glass working lathe for over-cladding (sleeving), collapsing, stretching and compressing glass tubes and rods

  • Customized clad/core ratio
  • Multi mode and single mode fiber
  • Laser development and manufacturing

Supporting tool: Software simulation for designing customized fibers
Supporting tool: Preform characterization tools

Specialty fibers facility – Drawing tower

Facility/Lab: Specialty silica fibers

Main tool #1 name : Our own customized 12.5-meter tower for drawing preforms into fibers, canes and capillaries

  • Acrylic coating materials for SCOF & DCOF 
  • Graphite resistance furnace​​ up to 2500°C
  • Maximal outer preform diameter up to 50mm
  • Controlled drawing rate up to 200mm/min
  • Pressure and vacuum control for drawing PM fibers
  • High precision and computerized closed loop control

Supporting tool: MCVD system for preform fabrication
Supporting tool: Fiber characterization tools

Fiber glass specialty facility – analytical measurement tools

Expitaxy lab

Main tools: Preform and fibers advanced characterization

  • Simulation software preform polariscope
  • PK 2600 – preform index profile
  • Core and DCOF absorption
  • PK S14 refractive index profile analysis
  • PK 2300G and 2300-LDF for coating geometry measurements
  • Fiber proof test and rewind line
  • Background loss and cut off measurement tool

Main tool #1 name: Aixtron MOCVD

  • III-N (e.g., GaN, AlGaN, InGaN)
  • III-V (e.g., GaAs, AlGaAs, InGaAs, InP, GaSb…)
  • Substrates: 2”– 6”

Main tool #1 name: VEECO MBE

  • III-N (e.g., GaN, AlGaN, InGaN)
  • III-V (e.g., GaAs, AlGaAs, InGaAs, InP, GaSb…)
  • Substrates: 2”– 4”

Main tools: Test and Measurement

  • HR XRD mapping
  • Photoluminescence mapping (0.28–2.6um)
  • CV profiler (doping profile)

Facility/Lab: Innovative photonic solutions

Main tool #1 name : Femto second laser (Coherent’s Astrella)

  • Fiber Bragg gratings inscription
  • Waveguides inscription (in glass, crystals upon request)
  • Possibility for 1D/2D/3D architecture

Main tool #2 name: Glass processing and splicing systems (for fiber splicing , tapering, end caps, mode field adapters and more)

  • Fujikura LZM 100

  • Fujikura 70s fiber fusion splicer

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