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Buying Single-polarization Fibers

Top-level product category: fiber optics

More general product categories: specialty fibers, fibers

Related product categories: polarization-maintaining fibers, fiber optics

Single-polarization fibers transmit light with a specific linear polarization state, often realized as photonic crystal fibers. These fibers are used in applications requiring stable polarization, such as sensors and polarization-sensitive measurements.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers, 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 gives you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive resources of RP Photonics:

Encyclopedia article: single-polarization fibers
Related articles: polarization-maintaining fibers, photonic crystal fibers
Tutorial: "Passive Fiber Optics"

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

I feel that I sufficiently understand the technical background.

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 single-polarization 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.

I think that I am sufficiently informed about our requirements.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

I consider the above list of specifications to be sufficiently complete, clear and accurate.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

Insert these criteria when creating inquiry mails to suppliers with the buttons "Get quotation".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

Below, you can find our list of suppliers for single-polarization 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:

Suppliers for Single-polarization Fibers

4 suppliers for single-polarization fibers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

Suppliers with Advertising Package presenting their product descriptions
Innovation in every fiber Fibercore Limited University Parkway Chilworth Science Park Southampton SO16 7QQ United Kingdom Profile page Website	Fibercore Zing™ speciality optical fiber is an all-fiber polarizer, guiding only a single-polarization state, providing practical real world polarizing performance. Straight or coiled, Zing™ delivers the high Polarization Extinction Ratio (PER) and broad, stable operating window that applications demand. Product-specific web page
Exail (formerly iXblue) 34, Rue de la Croix de Fer 78100 Saint Germain-en-Laye France Profile page Website	Exail (formerly iXblue) polarizing fiber (PZ) is designed so that only one state of polarization is guided along the fiber; any other state of polarization will be lost rapidly, thus yielding a high built-in polarization extinction ratio. This particular mechanism is obtained through a specific waveguide design and a careful optimization of the glass composition resulting in both high birefringence and leakage behavior. PZ fibers are available for different wavelengths with a broad polarizing window (typically larger than 100 nm), low attenuation and high extinction ratio (≥30 dB), that can be tuned by coiling the proper fiber length at the appropriate coil diameter. Exail also offers ready-to-use polarizing solutions based on PZ fibers. Product-specific web page
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Innovation in every fiber

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

Profile page Website

Fibercore Zing™ speciality optical fiber is an all-fiber polarizer, guiding only a single-polarization state, providing practical real world polarizing performance. Straight or coiled, Zing™ delivers the high Polarization Extinction Ratio (PER) and broad, stable operating window that applications demand.

Product-specific web page

Exail (formerly iXblue)
34, Rue de la Croix de Fer
78100 Saint Germain-en-Laye
France

Profile page Website

Exail (formerly iXblue) polarizing fiber (PZ) is designed so that only one state of polarization is guided along the fiber; any other state of polarization will be lost rapidly, thus yielding a high built-in polarization extinction ratio. This particular mechanism is obtained through a specific waveguide design and a careful optimization of the glass composition resulting in both high birefringence and leakage behavior.

PZ fibers are available for different wavelengths with a broad polarizing window (typically larger than 100 nm), low attenuation and high extinction ratio (≥30 dB), that can be tuned by coiling the proper fiber length at the appropriate coil diameter.

Exail also offers ready-to-use polarizing solutions based on PZ fibers.

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Other Suppliers
CYBEL, LLC United States	Profile page Website
ELUXI Ltd. United Kingdom	Profile page Website

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