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Buying Photonic Crystal Fibers

photonic crystal fibers

Top-level product category: icon fiber optics

More general product categories: specialty fibers, fibers

More specific product categories: photonic bandgap fibers

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

Photonic crystal fibers (PCF) are microstructured fibers with tiny air holes along the fiber axis. Their designs enable remarkable guiding properties, such as endlessly single-mode fibers and fibers with anomalous dispersion. Active fibers, like double-clad fibers with air cladding, are also available for lasers and amplifiers.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

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 photonic crystal fibers photonic bandgap fibers hollow-core fibers rare-earth-doped fibers double-clad fibers "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 buy.

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 photonic crystal 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 photonic crystal 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.

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Decision

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Suppliers for Photonic Crystal Fibers

13 suppliers for photonic crystal fibers (PCF) are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 5 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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The Hollow-Core PCF and Photonic MicroCell Company

GLOphotonics SAS
123 avenue Albert Thomas
87060 Limoges
France
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photonic crystal fibers

Explore the distinctive hollow-core photonic crystal fiber technology, guiding light within a hollow channel and enveloped by a microstructured cladding. A unique approach that redefines precision and efficiency in the field of photonics.

As a trailblazing industrial leader, GLO takes the forefront in photonics with a diverse array of hollow-core photonic crystal fiber solutions, tailored to meet the unique needs of our valued partners. Our commitment lies in delivering bespoke HCPCF innovations, setting new standards in the industry.

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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) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 225)!

photonic crystal fibers

Exail (formerly iXblue) offers a wide range of photonic crystal fibers:

  • air clad fibers: pure silica multimode fibers with a large core diameter and ultra-high numerical aperture, particularly suited for power delivery and light collection for spectroscopy application from the visible range to the near-infrared
  • endlessly single-mode fibers, no exhibiting a high order mode cut off, ideally suited for mode delivery in the visible region and above: from 400 nm to 1700 nm
  • hollow core photonic bandgap fibers: very low nonlinearity, low bend sensitivity excellent temperature immunity for high performance fiber sensing and metrology applications
  • anti-resonant hollow-core fibers: extremely low optical nonlinearity
  • supercontinuum photonic crystal fibers: low chromatic dispersion at the pump wavelength and high numerical aperture, therefore particularly suited for the efficient generation of supercontinuum with Ti:sapphire and YAG lasers

Optics, Metrology, and Photonics

Schäfter + Kirchhoff
Kieler Str. 212
22525 Hamburg
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.315)!

photonic crystal fibers

Endlessly single-mode, optional polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fibers series PCF with Gaussian intensity profile and low-stress fiber connectors with end caps.

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Solutions for Innovators

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) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 234)!

photonic crystal fibers

Our Crystal Fiber portfolio of specialty fibers spans from nonlinear fibers optimized for octave-spanning supercontinuum generation over the World’s largest single-mode ytterbium gain fibers for high-power lasers and amplifiers to advanced hollow-core fibers guiding light in air. Our single-mode LMA fibers are also available as patch cords with standard termination in our aeroGUIDE product range.

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Other Suppliers

CYBEL, LLC
United States
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ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Fiberware
Germany
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Mitsubishi Cable Industries
Japan
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Perfos
France
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PT Photonic Tools GmbH
Germany
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PHOTONICPARTS
Germany
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Yangtze Optical Electronic Co., Ltd.
China
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YSL Photonics
China
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