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Specialty fibers facility ā€“ MCVD and glass preform working lathes

Specialty fiber production

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

Horizontal glass working lathe for collapsing and over-cladding (sleeving)

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

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

Fiber drawing

Our own customized 12.5-meter tower for drawing preforms into fibers, canes and capillaries

  • Acrylic coating materials for SCOF & DCOFĀ 
  • Graphite resistance furnaceā€‹ā€‹ up to 2500Ā°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 ā€“ analytical measurement tools

Main tools: Preform and fibers advanced characterization

  • Simulation software preform polariscope
  • PK 2600 ā€“ 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

MOCVD

Aixtron MOCVD

  • III-N (e.g., GaN, AlGaN, InGaN)
  • III-V (e.g., GaAs, AlGaAs, InGaAs, InP, GaSbā€¦)
  • Substrates: 2ā€ā€“ 6ā€

MBE

VEECO MBE

  • III-N (e.g., GaN, AlGaN, InGaN)
  • III-V (e.g., GaAs, AlGaAs, InGaAs, InP, GaSbā€¦)
  • Substrates: 2ā€ā€“ 4ā€

Analytical measurements tools

Main tools: Test and Measurement

  • HR XRD mapping
  • Photoluminescence mapping (0.28ā€“2.6um)
  • CV profiler (doping profile)

Innovative Photonics & Optical Assembly Design

Femto second laser (Coherentā€™s Astrella)

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

Glass processing and splicing systems (for fiber splicing , tapering, end caps, mode field adapters and more)

  • Fujikura LZM 100ā€Ø
  • Fujikura 70s fiber fusion splicer

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