Buying Single-mode Fibers

Lasers for the Molecular Age

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.

Solutions for Innovators

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Optical fibers are at the heart of everything we do. We embed as many functions as possible directly into the fibers to make systems based on our fibers simpler, cheaper, and more reliable.

Optics, Photonics and Metrology

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We offer single-mode fiber cables with different cut-off wavelengths and measured values for the effective fiber NA.

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Exail (formerly iXblue) offers a wide range of specialty optical fibers, either for lasers and amplifiers or for sensing applications. Hundreds of fiber designs are available from stock on our dedicated e-store. Custom versions are also available. Most of the references are also available in radiation resistant versions, either for nuclear environments or for space missions.

We also offer endlessly single-mode fibers, which do not exhibit any higher-order mode cut off. They are ideally suited for mode delivery in the visible and above: from 400 nm to 1700 nm.

Leader in fluoride glass and optical fiber technology

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LVF offers a large range of fluoride single-mode optical fibers for mid-infrared applications:

• ZrF₄ (fluorozirconate) single-mode fibers with transparency ranging from 0.3 to 4.5 µm (typical background loss: <10 dB/km)
• InF₃ (fluoroindate) single-mode fibers with transparency ranging from 0.3 to 5.5 µm (typical background loss: <15 dB/km)

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

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Guiding Photonics produces hollow core fibers with single-mode performance for mid-IR wavelengths. The fibers deliver a Gaussian profile and can be used for mode-filtering of non-ideal input beams.

Innovation in every fiber

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The single-mode (SM) range of fibers developed from Fibercore has been designed to perform in a wide range of challenging applications using wavelengths between 450 nm and 1650 nm.