Where to Buy Interferometers

Nyfors offers high precision interferometers for checking the end face quality of cleaved optical fibers and for cleave process optimization. They show crisp and clear fringe patterns and come with software for advanced measurement functionality. Ideal for use in production settings and when working with difficult to cleave fibers in laboratory environments.

Fiber holder adaptors available for use with cleavers and splicers from the major splicer manufacturers. This facilitates easy transfer of the fiber from cleaver to interferometer and then onto the splicer with no need for reclamping.

LightMachinery has a great breadth of expertise for manufacturing space qualified, wide-field Michelson interferometers.

Polarizing, non-polarizing, cemented, optically contacted (epoxy free bonded), hexagonal, square, small (1 mm), large (45 mm), UV, visible, IR. Material selection, coating design, modeling of phase & polarization, mechanical design, process development, quality planning, glass shaping and polishing, optical contacting, cementing and finally testing, testing and testing. Of course that's what makes it so interesting and challenging to work on these projects.

Beyond test pass or fail information, our range of digital automated interferometers for single- and multi-fiber connectors produce detailed geometry reports:

• interferometers for measuring single-fiber connectors, from a cost effective solution for high-volume measurement to robust and compact interferometers for production, to the ultimate production solution for measuring end-face geometry
• highly advanced interferometers for measuring fiber end faces
• interferometers for MT-12 or MT-16 multi-fiber connectors, including cost-effective devices and the industry reference for MT product measurements, also available with integrated microscope and “floating pastille” fixture
• fiber-pigtailed Mach–Zehnder free space interferometers
• Michelson and Mach–Zehnder fiber interferometers

Teem Photonics has developed and offers the PicoMove interferometers – a new line of compact, stable and high performance interferometers for the measurement of picometer-scale displacements and vibrations.

These interferometers are based on single-chip integration of a high stability architecture which results in measurements with an intrinsic ultra-low noise.

The eye-safe operating wavelength of 1.55 µm provides compatibility with commercial telecom sources.