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FCI, a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect systems, has launched FCI Fiber Optics, a product line of fiber optic couplers, splitters, taps, wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs), cable assemblies and adaptors based on proven technology from Canstar'. With this wide range of product offerings, FCI Fiber Optics is able to accommodate applications ranging from data communications for military and commercial aircraft to ignition control on power generators.
The FCI Fiber Optic line of products includes several types of couplers for various design specifications including one-in, many-out couplers; WDMs; and one-in, two-out couplers available as even-split or ratio-split. Even-split couplers include traditional splitters, y-junction couplers and 50:50 couplers, while ratio-split couplers include access and tap couplers. FCI attenuators, or one-in, one-out couplers for attenuating all wavelengths, are also included in the product line.
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Fischer Connectors offers a wide range of fiber optic connector and cable systems. Rugged, they are specifically engineered to withstand difficult operating conditions (outdoor, submarine, or high pressure applications…).
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A patch cord or fiber jumper is an optical cable, used to connect ("patch-in") one electronic or optical device to another for signal routing. Devices of different types (i.e.: a switch connected to a computer, or switch to router)
are connected with patch cords. Patch cords are usually produced in many different colors so as to be easily distinguishable, and are relatively short, perhaps no longer than two meters. Patch cords can be as short as 3 inches or 8cm, to connect stacked components, or route signals through a patch bay or as much as twenty feet or 6m or more in length for snake cables. As length increases, cables are usually thicker, and/or made with more shielding, to prevent signal loss (attenuation) and the introduction of unwanted radio frequencies and hum (electromagnetic interference). Patch cords also come in hybrid varieties with one type of connector on one end and another type of connector on the other. Jumpers are used in the same manner as patch cords, to connect end devices or network hardware to the structured cabling system.
Fiber patch cords come in either single mode or multimode and should be selected to match the structured cabling system. The only exception to this is mode conditioning patch cords (also known as mode conditioning fiber jumpers) that are required when transmitting gigabit signals over 200m on 62.5 micron multimode fiber.
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Pasternack's Fiber-optic cables consist of fine strands of optically pure glass and are designed carry digital information safely over long distances for RF & Microwave applications. Standard cable lengths are 1, 2, 3, 5 meters in length (62.5/125 Multi Mode and 9/125 Single Mode).
Custom-length cable assemblies are available upon request, call or email us today!
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Multimode fiber is characterized by its ability to allow numerous modes of light to be transmitted simultaneously. With a large core diameter multimode fiber is coupled easier then single-mode fiber resulting in its wide use in variety of industry, scientific and medical applications.
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When looking for a low cost fiber with a high numerical aperture (N.A.) for more efficient light coupling, the Anhydroguide™ PCS is the fiber of choice. With an N.A. of 0.37 and a plastic cladding that allows a high core-to-clad ratio, satisfies those requirements and more. The pure fused silica (SiO2) used in the core of the Anhydroguide™ fiber is made by reacting silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4) with oxygen (O2) using a plasma arc rather than an oxy-hydrogen flame. This ensures that the residual hydroxyl concentration (OH) will be low in the core material resulting in superior infrared transmission as compared with flame prepared silica that is used in the companion product, Superguide™ which has superior ultraviolet (UV) transmission.
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Contrinex offers a wide range of models (synthetic and glass) of optical fibers. Their main features are:
- Very small dimensions
- Long operating distances
- Easy alignment, thanks to visible light
- Flexible models for very small bending radii (synthetic fibers)
- Spherical optics for cylindrical light beam (synthetic fibers)
- Luminous models with very long operating distances (synthetic fibers)
- Glass fibers for extreme environmental conditions and high temperatures
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When looking for a low cost fiber with a high numerical aperture (N.A.) for more efficient light coupling,
the Anhydroguide™ PCS is the fiber of choice. With an N.A. of 0.37 and a plastic cladding that allows a high
core-to-clad ratio, satisfies those requirements and more. The pure fused silica (SiO2) used in the core of the
Anhydroguide™ fiber is made by reacting silicon tetrachloride (SiCl4) with oxygen (O2) using a plasma arc rather
than an oxy-hydrogen flame. This ensures that the residual hydroxyl concentration (OH) will be low in the core
material resulting in superior infrared transmission as compared with flame prepared silica that is used in the
companion product, Superguide™ which has superior ultraviolet (UV) transmission.
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Polymer cladded fiber (PCF) has been on the market for many years, standing out by being very robust and easy to assemble. Compared with thick-core glass fibers, they are not only more robust but also considerably cheaper.
PCF consists of a silica core with polymer cladding. What is especially important here is good adhesion of the cladding material to the glass core, which does not go without saying because of the different expansion coefficients especially at high temperatures. This is where the many products on the market differ most. It is also why there are a vast number of different abbreviations such as PCS, HCS, HPCF, etc.
Low attenuation makes it possible to cover distances up to 500 metres with systems designed for POF (about 660nm), and up to 4 kilometres with 850 nm systems.
Cables
Fiber specifications
Connectors
Assembly tools
Measuring equipment
Cable Assemblies
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Polymer optical fiber (POF) has been on the market for many years. Both the fiber core and the cladding are made of polymer. Key advantages of polymer optical fibers are high flexibility (high alternate bending resistance with smaller bending radii) as well as more economical connecting and transmission technology than in the case of glass. Moreover, this type of fiber also has all the major benefits of a fiber optical cable connection: EMC security, clear galvanic separation, no crosstalk, low weight, etc.
POF can meanwhile be used to connect over distances up to 70 metres, which is normally sufficient for both industrial environments and smaller office as well as home networks. It is even possible to cover distances up to 150 metres by selecting suitable active components.
Step-index standard POF
Step-index POF with low/high NA
Step-index POF for high temperature
Step-index POF for fast ethernet
Graded index POF
POF cables with UL-Standards
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Sensors with fibre optics are used for optoelectronic sensing applications where mounting space is limited or where high operating temperatures do not permit the use of conventional sensors. Due to their small design and optical properties they do not only detect the presence of objects but also quality-related details, e.g. thread pitches of screws.
Transmitter and receiver of the fibre optic sensors are integrated into one housing. The fibre optic is connected to the switching amplifier using a special adapter, and so there is almost no loss. Fibre optics can be used as through-beam sensors or diffuse reflection sensors.
Fibre optics consist of flexible glass fibre bundles protected against external influence by a sheath.
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Optical fiber manufactured to retain the fidelity of each light pulse, allowing for greater distance of transmission. Single mode fiber is characterized by a low attenuation making it ideal for telecommunication as well as applications requiring a high amount of information to be transferred per unit of time.
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While single mode silica/silica fibers are available from a number of suppliers with standard polymer coatings, Fiberguide is unique in offering these fibers with high performance buffers/coatings of aluminum, gold or polyimide. A single mode fiber has a sufficiently small core diameter that it can only transmit a single transverse optical mode. Typical core diameters are in the range of several microns up to around 10 microns depending on the wavelength being transmitted. Conventional single mode fibers covered in this data sheet have circularly symmetric cores. As such, they can actually transmit two orthogonally polarized modes. Normally, this aspect is ignored because such orthogonal modes travel at nearly the same velocity and they can be treated as one. However, in very high data rate systems and other critical applications it is important to preserve the polarization state that is launched into the fiber. Such cases require the use of polarization preserving single mode fibers that are discussed in the accompanying data sheet.
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Fast and trouble-free communications are taken for granted nowadays. To make this possible, hundreds of kilometres of cable thread through office buildings and factories, linking equipment, floors and buildings. Even whole countries are interlinked by cable.
Fiber optic cables provide the ideal solution for future-proof installations because they enable not only high rates of data transmission with major spare capacity, but also the highest possible degree of operating security.
Indoor Cables
Universal Cables
Outdoor Cables
Fiber optic cables for special applications
Cables with UL-Standards
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OFS offers a broad range of standard and custom single-mode fibers. Fibers are available to support operating wavelengths from visible to infrared (380 - 2100 nm). Numerical apertures from 0.11 to 0.25 are available standard or can be specified in a custom fiber. Mode field diameter, attenuation, bend performance and other critical performance and aesthetic measures can also be specified. A variety of operational and installation environmental conditions can be supported through the fiber's design and/or coating composition.
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Tapered optical fibers are an efficient means of improving High Power Laser out puts. The taper functions to create a spatially uniform spot enhancing the laser output.
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Rare earth doped gain fibers for converting pump light into laser and amplifier signals.
Available in single clad, double clad, and triple clad variants, these fibers have the high brightness, narrow linewidth, and extreme power stability to satisfy the most demanding applications.
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Perfect for single and multi-channel C- and L-band amplifiers and ASE sources and small form factor devices.
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Industry leading tolerances on key spectroscopic parameters ensure lot-to-lot reproducibility.
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The LINOS Fiber couplers combine highest stability and optimum coupling efficiency with easy alignment.
The lenses used in the fiber coupler have to be specially adjusted to the fiber in use, taking laser wavelength and beam diameter into account.
This enables to achieve highest coupling efficiency close to the theoretical maximum.
For the optimum performance LINOS recommends to order a pre-adjusted fiber optic system.
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Modern designs for optical fibre cables of the HELUCOM® series exhibit the same robustness as for a copper cable. The cable constructions are selected for optimum protection of the optical fibres in each application.
Within the HELUCOM® series, optical fi bre cables are available with the common fibre types of 50/125m, 62,5/125m and 9/125m. The HELUCOM® optical fibre cables are manufactured in accordance with the standards and regulations of DIN VDE 0888.
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nkt cables offers ground and phase conductors with built-in optical fibres - OPGW (Optical Ground Wire) and OPPC (Optical Phase Conductors).
We typically supply from 2-144 fibres
24 fibres per stainless steel tube, but can be supplied with the desired number of fibres
Centre tube construction
Stranded tube construction with or without greasing
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Gore provides high performance fiber optic cables for military, aerospace and communication applications. Traditional fiber optic cables negatively affect the optical stability of a bare fiber. The Gore product line incorporates a patented expanded PTFE buffer system that effectively decouples the optical fiber from other cable elements. As a result, optical performance of a Gore cable closely approximates that of a bare optical fiber, even under mechanical or thermal stresses.
Gore is partnering with Deutsch Ltd. to distribute Deutsch Fiber Optic Connectors within the United States and Canada. Gore will continue to offer GORETM Fiber Optic Assemblies with various connector options including Deutsch connectors.
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HellermannTyton offers a full range of Fiber Optic connectivity products including patch panels, jacks, faceplates, and patch cords. Continually updated, these products meet the latest industry standards, and aggressive system and product warranties are offered with this line.
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CMFO4
4" fiber optic markerArticle Number: 597-00042
Part Number: CMFO4
Type: CMF
Part No: T50L0C2
Article No: 111-00445
Heavy Duty Cable Tie, 120 lb. 15.24" Max. Bun. Dia. 4.13" PA66, Black, 50/pk
Part No: T120R0K2
Article No: 112-12060
Cable Tie, 50 lb. 7.9" Max. Bun. Dia. 1.97" PA66, Gray, 100/pk
Part No: T50R8C2
Article No: 111-04870
Cable Tie, 50 lb. 7.9" Max. Bun. Dia. 1.97", PA66, Black, 100/pk
Part No: T50R0C2
Article No: 111-04878
Cable Tie, 50 lb. 7.9" Max. Bun. Dia. 1.97", PA66, Natural, 100/pk
Part No: T50R9C2
Article No: 112-05019
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Nufern designs and manufactures a broad range of specialty optical fiber. From photosensitive fibers to rad-hard fibers to high-power double clad fibers, you can trust Nufern to produce optical fiber to the world's highest standards for quality, reliability, and repeatability.
If you don't find what you need among our standard fiber offerings, we'll be happy to discuss creating a custom fiber.
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Fiber-optic cable required for connecting the hardware components of a VersioBus servo network or a VersioBus I/O network. Required for IM-300 I/O modules in any interface system, or for DC-150 servo modules in the VersioBus interface system.
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General description
The ZLynx CX-4 product is part of the ZLynx family of fully integrated optical active cables, where the opticalelectrical conversion is integrated into the end cable connectors. The ZLynx family is built on Zarlink's industryleading arrayed photonics, IC components and proprietary interconnect optical alignment technology.
The ZLynx CX-4, ZL60615 product is specifically designed for connection to industry-standard 4-wide I/O electrical high-speed powered CX4/IB ports. The product is plug-and-play into these powered ports and eliminates the need for customer re-design work. It provides the customer with all the advantages of an optical fiber solution without the worry of having to deal with the physical optical interconnection, the only connection being electrical.
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Draka Comteq offers a wide range of fibre optic outdoor cables with state-of-the art fibres. All desired cables can be produced with gradient or single mode fibres according to national or international standards and requirements. The full range of Draka Comteq fibre cables is at your service.
Draka Comteq being an internationally approved supplier serves numerous small and big customer world-wide. For example a wide range of fibre optic cables are produced for and sold to German PTT / Deutsche Telekom AG (specification TS 0000/12.98) and German Railways / Deutschen Bahn AG (specification Dlk 1.011.003 y).
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OSI PreCONNECT® and OSI PreCONNECT® HDCS are products developed by OSI Fiber-Optics which present an integral system solution for structured cabling purposes, in which the components are designed to fit together in an optimal way.
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