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Purchasing Advisor for Mid-infrared Fibers

Find all you need for professionally buying mid-infrared 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: specialty fibers, fibers

Related product categories: single-crystal fibers, fiber optics

Mid-infrared fibers are optical fibers designed for efficient transmission of mid-infrared light. These fibers can be made from materials such as chalcogenide glasses, germanate glasses, heavy metal fluoride glasses, sapphire, or polycrystalline substances, each offering unique properties for specific applications.

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 mid-infrared fibers single-crystal fibers fluoride fibers infrared light "Passive Fiber Optics"

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 mid-infrared 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 mid-infrared 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 Mid-infrared Fibers

14 suppliers for mid-infrared fibers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 4 present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.403, A1.530)!

mid-infrared fibers

Thorlabs has extensive, vertically integrated fluoride fiber manufacturing capabilities, including draw towers and splicing expertise. These capabilities are utilized to produce our PDFA series of praseodymium-doped fiber amplifiers as well as our SC4500 mid-IR supercontinuum laser system. To handle the delicate processing of fluoride fibers, Thorlabs manufactures the GPX3900 automated glass processor, which is part of our extensive line of fiber fusion and processing equipment.

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Leader in fluoride glass and optical fiber technology

Le Verre Fluoré
Rue Gabriel Voisin
Campus de Ker Lann
35170 Bruz, Brittany
France
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mid-infrared fibers

LVF offers a large range of fluoride optical fibers, including ZrF4 (fluorozirconate) and InF3 (fluoroindate) fibers designed for mid infrared applications.

  • ZrF4 (fluorozirconate) fibers transmit light from 0.3 µm up to 4.5 µm.
  • InF3 (fluoroindate) fibers transmit light from 0.3 µm up to 5.5 µm.
  • GeO2 (germanate) fibers are qualified for high power handling around 2.7–3.0 µm (Er:YAG and Er:YSSG medical lasers).

LVF fluoride fibers are the most transparent fibers on the market in the mid-infrared 2–5 µm band.

Discover our passive fibers and active fibers.

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Guiding Photonics LLC
(a spin-off from OptoKnowledge Systems, Inc.)
19805 Hamilton Ave.
Torrance CA 90502–1341
United States
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mid-infrared fibers

Guiding Photonics produces hollow core fiber optics (i.e., waveguides) for mid-IR applications requiring remote laser beam delivery. Benefits include

  • good transmission for λ = 2 – 16 µm
  • single-mode options for λ ≥ 5 µm
  • mode filtering of non-Gaussian beams
  • high coupling efficiency (> 95%)
  • high energy/power (up to 100 W CW)
  • no end reflections
  • no cladding modes
  • robust and flexible
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Broad spectra fiber solutions

art photonics GmbH
Rudower Chaussee 46
12489 Berlin
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A3.218)!

mid-infrared fibers

For the mid-IR spectral range, we produce

CIR fibers transmits infrared radiation in the spectral range of 1.1 μm – 6.5 μm. CIR- fibers with double polymer jacket provides a superior mechanical strength and high flexibility. Low optical losses ensure a successful use of CIR-fiber for a wide range of applications.

PIR fibers are transparent over a broad spectral range 3 μm – 17 μm. Low optical losses without absorption peaks over the mentioned spectral range ensure a successful use of PIR fiber for a broad range of applications.

The HWG design is a perfect option to transmit weakly divergent IR light in the mid IR range from 2 to 18 μm. High performance HWG are produced with double polymer jacket to secure a superior mechanical strength and high flexibility of HWGs.

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Other Suppliers

Allied Scientific Pro
Canada
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CASIX Inc.
China
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CYBEL, LLC
United States
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IRflex Corporation
United States
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Nano-Giga
France
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Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc.
United States
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Optoprim Germany GmbH
Germany
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Photran, LLC
United States
Polymicro Technologies
United States
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Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)
Singapore

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