Fiberguide Industries has designed a line of standard Collimators and Focus Guides for use with a wide variety of optical systems. These ruggedized modules are manufactured to accept SMA, ST, FC, or machined ferrule style connectors. Assembled and preset at our factory to meet required specifications, all Collimators and Focus Guides can be adjusted to provide the flexibility necessary for certain set ups. Designed to collimate or focus light exiting
an optical fiber to a desired beam diameter or spot size from the end of the module, these devices can be used with laser diodes, photodiodes, acoustic-optic modulators and other fiber optic devices. Collimators and Focus
Guides can be used as matched pairs to couple light in and out of optical devices. Focus Guides thread into the Collimator, refocusing the beam at a given distance.
The “Macro” Collimator is used with core optical fiber core sizes larger than 800ìm diameter, The “Mid-Size” Collimator is best suited for optical core sizes up to 800ìm diameter, and lastly, for smaller optical core fibers
up to 400ìm diameter, the “Micro” Collimators is the optimum choice. Macro and Mid-Size Collimators and Focus Guides are all compatible with each other.
LightPath's® line of connectorized aspheric collimator assemblies
combine the outstanding performance of glass molded aspheric
lenses with the ease of assembly of a fiber connector interface.
The assemblies have a threaded exterior, which allows a quick
connection to an optical bench or within an instrument. LightPath's®
connectorized collimators are available with either FC or SMA
fiber optic connectors and are individually aligned and tested for
the specified wavelengths, and will offer excellent performance
throughout the entire range of their AR coatings.
CLA, CLB, and CLD series collimators are high-performance fiber optic devices employing high quality aspheric lenses to achieve low wave-front distortion, low divergence, and diffraction limited beam quality. These collimators are not only ideal for targeting at long distances but also good for pair coupling at long working distances. CLC series collimators are spherical lens-based low-cost devices suitable for multimode applications. Beam size can be as large as 12 mm.
