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Buying Specialty Fibers

Top-level product category: icon fiber optics

More general product categories: fibers

More specific product categories: double-clad fibers, mid-infrared fibers, multi-core fibers, photonic crystal fibers, polarization-maintaining fibers, polyimide fibers, single-crystal fibers, single-polarization fibers, spun fibers, tapered fibers, triple-clad fibers

Related product category: fiber optics

Specialty optical fibers are designed to exhibit a wide range of unique properties, such as high transmission in unusual spectral regions, specialized mode and chromatic dispersion characteristics, radiation resistance, and polarization properties. These fibers are crucial in applications requiring specific performance attributes, including high temperatures and radiation environments.

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 specialty fibers rare-earth-doped fibers double-clad fibers triple-clad fibers photonic crystal fibers mid-infrared fibers single-crystal fibers polarization-maintaining fibers single-polarization 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 specialty 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 specialty 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

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Specialty Fibers

52 suppliers for specialty fibers 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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presenting their product descriptions

The Hollow-Core PCF and Photonic MicroCell Company

GLOphotonics SAS
123 avenue Albert Thomas
87060 Limoges
France
specialty 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)!

specialty fibers

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.

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Innovation in every fiber

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

Fibercore has delivered over 40 years of innovation and excellence in developing and manufacturing speciality optical fiber. All of our fiber products have been developed with our customers in mind with market leading capabilities to produce an extensive range of fibers including;

We are continuously expanding our product ranges to cover wider and more demanding customer applications. So if you have a specific development project or require a custom fiber, we would like to discuss it further with you. We will work together with you to find the best solution.

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AMS Technologies AG
Fraunhoferstr. 22
82152 Martinsried
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.203)!

specialty fibers

AMS Techno­logies carries a broad portfolio of specialty optical fibers, ranging from high-performance metalized fibers, coated with aluminium or gold to work reliably even at extreme temperatures and withstand harsh environmental conditions, to a wide range of doped optical fibers whose fiber cores are doped with laser-active ions, mostly of rare-earth materials, all the way to highly sophisticated photonic crystal fibers (PCF), used to create a supercontinuum based on quantum optical effects. Our suppliers have all the capabilities to design and fabricate a broad variety of specialty optical fiber structures according to customer orders – contact us to discuss your specialty fiber solution, custom made to cover your project’s requirements.

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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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specialty fibers

LVF offers the largest range of fluoride fibers in the world, including passive fibers and active fibers for applications ranging from the visible to the mid-infrared.

  • ZrF4 (fluorozirconate) fibers transmit light from 0.3 µm up to 4.5 µm.
  • InF3 (fluoroindate) fibers transmit light from 0.3 µm up to 5.5 µm.
  • GeO2 (germanate) fibers are qualified for high power handling around 2.7–3.0 µm (Er:YAG and Er:YSSG medical lasers).

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

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Other Suppliers

AC Photonics
United States
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Acrolite Fiber Optic Lighting and Sensing
United States
Advanced Fiber Resources Ltd.
China
advanced fiber tools GmbH
Germany
Armadillo SIA
Latvia
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CASIX Inc.
China
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Castor Optics Inc.
Canada
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Coherent Corp.
United States
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CorActive High-Tech Inc.
Canada
Corning Inc.
United States
CYBEL, LLC
United States
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ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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engionic Fiber Optics GmbH
Germany
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Everfoton
China
FCC FibreCableConnect GmbH
Germany
FiberLogix Intl. Ltd.
United Kingdom
Fiberware
Germany
FORC-Photonics
Russian Federation
Fujikura
Japan
Furukawa Electric
Japan
heracle GmbH
Germany
Incom
United States
Innofiber
United States
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IRflex Corporation
United States
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j-fiber GmbH
Germany
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Laser Components GmbH
Germany
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Laserglow Technologies
Canada M6C 1C
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Lightcomm Technology Co., Ltd.
China
Mitsubishi Cable Industries
Japan
molex LLC
United States
nLight Photonics Corporation
Canada
Oelabs Inc.
China
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OFS Global Headquarters
United States
Oplatek Group Oy
Finland
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OptiConcepts Inc.
United States
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OZ Optics
Canada
Perfos
France
PHOTONIS Technologies S.A.S.
France
Polymicro Technologies
United States
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Prysmian Group
Italy
Raybium AB
Sweden
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Sweden
Shanghai Tarluz Telecom Tech. Co., Tld.
China
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Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)
Singapore
Yangtze Optical Electronics Co., Ltd
China
Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Ltd. (YOFC)
China
YSL Photonics
China
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