Where to Buy Polarization-maintaining Fibers

Fibercore’s industry leading polarization-maintaining fiber (PM fiber), is designed for high performance interferometric and plarimetric sensors, integrated optics and communications. Fibercore’s family of PM fiber is called HiBi for its high birefringence and is manufactured with the bow-tie configuration where the Stress Applying Parts (SAPs) act as opposing wedges generating optimum stress distribution within the fibers, giving the very best in performance.

Exail (formerly iXblue) offers a wide range of polarization-maintaining specialty optical fibers, either for lasers and amplifiers or for sensing applications. Hundreds of fiber versions are available from stock on dedicated e-store. We have a large experience in PM fibers for Fiber Optic Gyroscopes (FOG), and most of our active doped fibers (erbium, erbium/ytterbium, ytterbium, thulium, holmium, thulium/holmium, neodymium) are available in PM versions.

Effective dispersion compensation is a key requirement for many applications involving ultrafast lasers and broadband optical signals. Cycle can offer a variety of dispersion compensating fibers to satisfy the needs of your application. Our products include:

• single-mode dispersion compensating fibers (SM-DCF) and
• polarization-maintaining dispersion compensating fibers (PM-DCF)

with different connector types and customized lengths. Please contact us for more information.

TOPTICA Photonics AG offers a wide range of optical fibers ideally suited for use with TOPTICAs lasers and FiberDock. These economically priced fibers cover a wide range of wavelengths. TOPTICA recommends to always purchase a fiber along with a laser and fiber coupler, as this ensures maximum fiber coupling efficiency. Also specialty fibers for power monitoring, beam splitting or combining are available with various ratios and also polarization maintaining.

DIAMOND provides high quality solutions for polarization maintaining (PM) and polarizing (PZ) fiber optic interfaces to optimally control the polarization state of the signal. Low Insertion Losses (IL) combined with high Polarization Extinction Ratios (PER) and higher Return Losses (RL) are achieved over very broad spectral ranges through a combination of precise optical and mechanical design.

We offer polarization-maintaining fiber cables with different cut-off wavelengths and measured values for the effective fiber NA. The polarization analyzers series SK010PA are universal measurement and test systems for coupling laser beam sources into polarization-maintaining fiber cables.

Our Large Mode Area photonics crystal fibers are designed for diffraction-limited high-power delivery. The large mode area prevents nonlinear effects and material damage. You can also get polarization-maintaining versions.

Polarisation-maintaining fibers (PM fibers) are used in specific applications where the polarisation effect (maintaining signal polarisation state) plays a major role and directly influences the functionality of the whole system. PM fibres are typically used in interferometers, sensing solutions (gyroscopes and accelerometers) and modulators in combination with laser sources considered for transmitters designed for on-board optics solutions.

LVF offers a range of polarization maintaining fluoride fibers. Discover our standard ZBLAN polarization maintaining fiber.