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Buying Polarization-maintaining Fibers

polarization-maintaining fibers

Top-level product category: icon fiber optics

More general product categories: specialty fibers, fibers

Related product categories: spun fibers, fiber optics

Polarization-maintaining fibers (PMF) ensure the maintenance of a linear polarization state in optical fiber devices. This is achieved using different designs, such as PANDA and bow-tie fibers, as well as certain photonic crystal fibers (PCF).

Making Good Purchase Decisions

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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 polarization-maintaining fibers single-polarization fibers spun fibers single-mode fibers photonic crystal fibers birefringence polarization of light fiber polarization controllers "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 polarization-maintaining 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.

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3. Find suitable suppliers

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  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for polarization-maintaining 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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Suppliers for Polarization-maintaining Fibers

34 suppliers for polarization-maintaining fibers (PMF) are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 10 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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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)!

polarization-maintaining fibers

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.

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Innovation in every fiber

Fibercore Limited
University Parkway
Chilworth Science Park
Southampton SO16 7QQ
United Kingdom
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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.

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Diamond the fiber meeting

Diamond SA
Via dei Patrizi 5
6616 Losone
Switzerland
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polarization-maintaining fibers

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.

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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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polarization-maintaining fibers

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

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Sylex s.r.o.
Mlynské luhy 31
821 05 Bratislava
Slovakia
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polarization-maintaining fibers

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.

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Lasers for the Molecular Age

Cycle GmbH
Luruper Hauptstr. 1
22547 Hamburg
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.122)!

polarization-maintaining fibers

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.

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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)!

polarization-maintaining fibers

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.

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all wavelengths.

TOPTICA Photonics AG
Lochhamer Schlag 19
82166 Gräfelfing
Germany
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See the company profile page for additional contact information.

See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.103) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 217)!

polarization-maintaining fibers

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.

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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)!

polarization-maintaining fibers

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.

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Other Suppliers

3W Photonics
United States
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AC Photonics
United States
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Advanced Fiber Resources Ltd.
China
Ascentta Inc.
United States
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CorActive High-Tech Inc.
Canada
Elliot Scientific Ltd.
United Kingdom
ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Everfoton
China
FCC FibreCableConnect GmbH
Germany
FiberLogix Intl. Ltd.
United Kingdom
FOSCO Connect
United States
Fujikura
Japan
HJ Optronics Inc.
United States
INO
Canada
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Laserglow Technologies
Canada M6C 1C
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Lightcomm Technology Co., Ltd.
China
New Age Instruments & Materials
India
OBS FIBER
France
Oelabs Inc.
China
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OF-LINK Communications Co., Ltd.
China
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OFS Global Headquarters
United States
OZ Optics
Canada
Prysmian Group
Italy
Yangtze Optical Electronic Co., Ltd.
China
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Yangtze Optical Electronics Co., Ltd
China

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