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Purchasing Advisor for Large Mode Area Fibers

Find all you need for professionally buying large mode area fibers: an interactive tool with a comprehensive and trustworthy directory of suppliers and expert guidance for a structured decision process with scientific and technical background information.

Top-level product category: icon fiber optics

More general product categories: fibers

Related product categories: large-core fibers, double-clad fibers, triple-clad fibers, fiber optics

large mode area fibers

Optical fibers with particularly large mode areas are useful for high-power fiber amplifiers and lasers, as they have reduced nonlinear effects. These fibers allow for the efficient transmission of high-power laser light with minimal distortion.

Interactive Purchase Decision Tool

Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

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How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done Explanations on this purchasing tool

Go through the process:

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article large mode area fibers large-core fibers effective mode area bend losses numerical aperture fiber amplifiers photonic crystal fibers "Passive Fiber Optics" Easier Launching Into Fibers With Large Mode Area? Continuing Struggle for Larger Fiber Mode Areas Single-Mode Fibers With Large Mode Areas

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you purchase.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying large mode area fibers. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for large mode area fibers. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

4. Document the decision process

It is essential to document your purchasing process, not only its result (chosen supplier):

  • You will find it easier next time.
  • If something goes wrong, you can defend your decision by showing that you properly considered all important aspects. Or you see what needs to be done better next time.

Our interactive tool makes it easy: Fill out the form, and in the end print it to a PDF. Note that the document will show all sections (including those not currently shown on the screen), while omitting some irrelevant details such as the page navigation.

Suppliers for Large Mode Area Fibers

8 suppliers for large mode area fibers (LMA fibers) are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which two present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Exail (formerly iXblue)
34, Rue de la Croix de Fer
78100 Saint Germain-en-Laye
France
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.341)!

large mode area fibers

Exail (formerly iXblue) offers a wide range of specialty optical fibers for lasers and amplifiers. We master erbium, erbium/ytterbium, ytterbium, thulium, holmium, thulium/holmium, neodymium, dysprosium, and phosphorous gain media. PM version are available, and Large Mode Area (LMA) or Very Large Mode Area (VLMA) versions as well. Depending of the requirement, single clad fibers are available for core pumping, double clad fibers for clad pumping. Triple clad and all glass structures are also available.

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NKT Photonics
Bregnerødvej 144
3460 Birkerød
Denmark
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.219)!

large mode area fibers

Our large mode area photonic crystal fibers are designed for diffraction-limited high-power delivery. The large mode area prevents nonlinear effects and material damage. With standard fibers, you trade large mode areas for single-mode operation. With our large mode area fibers, you get single-mode operation in a wide range of wavelengths. Also available in a polarization-maintaining version.

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Other Suppliers

CorActive High-Tech Inc.
Canada
CYBEL, LLC
United States
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ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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GEHT International Ltd
Hong Kong
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Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)
Singapore
Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Ltd. (YOFC)
China

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