TOPTICA Photonics AG offers a wide range of optical fibers ideally suited for use with TOPTICAs lasers and FiberDock. These economically priced fibers cover a wide range of wavelengths. TOPTICA recommends to always purchase a fiber along with a laser and fiber coupler, as this ensures maximum fiber coupling efficiency.
Also specialty fibers for power monitoring, beam splitting or combining are available with various ratios and also polarization maintaining. Please enquire.
Technical Information
Technical Information
TOPTICAs laser systems generally produce light that is diffraction limited or at least nearly so. It can therefore be coupled efficiently into single-mode fibers. Coupling single-mode light into a multi-mode (MM) fiber will result in a loss of brightness, although the coupling efficiency might be better and the coupling is less sensitive to misalignment – the output of the MM fiber will generally be multi-mode. To preserve the favorable properties of single-mode light, it should be coupled into single-mode (SM) fibers.
Coupling polarized light into a single-mode fiber will result in random polarization at the output of the fiber, because the fiber is generally slightly birefringent. As this birefringence changes with temperature and movement/bending of the fiber, also the output polarization of a SM fiber varies.
Polarization maintaining (PM) fibers can preserve the input polarization under certain circumstances. In PM fibers, a strong birefringence is introduced intentionally in a controlled way, and coupling linearly polarized light into a PM fiber along one of its principal axes will maintain the polarization. The polarization crosstalk from one axis to the other is generally smaller than -25 dB/100 m, for wavelengths below 480 nm smaller than -20 dB/100 m. The key of PM fibers is mostly aligned along the slow axis, and this is normally the axis along which the polarization is coupled into the fiber. TOPTICAs fiber coupler FiberDock offers a degree of freedom to rotate the fiber around its axis to optimize this alignment.
Normally, every fiber facet introduces 4% loss, reducing the theoretical maximum transmission through a fiber to 92%. Anti-reflection coated (AR) fibers reduce these reflection losses to below 1%, so that the power behind the fiber can be increased by 6-8%. The AR coating withstands high powers, but is not suited for physical contact (PC) fiber-to-fiber coupling. AR coated fibers are available at many wavelengths upon request.
High power (HP) fibers feature special facets. They are recommended for powers greater than 1W. The output beam from high power fibers shows very little distortion with an M² << 1.1.
| Type | Wavelength Range | Connectors | Cutoff | MFD | NA | Length | Jacket | Fiber |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Patchcords | ||||||||
| MM | 400 - 1800 nm | 2 x FC/PC | Core 100 µm | 0.29 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000833 | |
| SM Patchcords | ||||||||
| SM | 320 - 400 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 300 nm | 2.2 | 0.12 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000670 |
| SM | 400 - 450 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 380 nm | 4 | 0.1 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000634 |
| SM | 450 - 650 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 440 nm | 4.2 | 0.11 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000671 |
| SM | 600 - 850 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 600 nm | 4 | 0.12 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000672 |
| SM | 780 - 980 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 770 nm | 5.2 | 0.11 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000673 |
| SM | 980 - 1550 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 970 nm | 5.9 .. > 6.2 | 0.14 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000674 |
| SM | 1290 - 1650 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 1260 nm | 9.2 .. > 10.4 | 0.14 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000675 |
| PM Patchcords | ||||||||
| PM | 350 - 440 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 340 nm | 2.3 .. > 2.6 | 0.12 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000676 |
| PM | 350 - 440 nm | FC/APC-FC/PC | < 340 nm | 2.3 .. > 2.6 | 0.12 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000867 |
| PM | 405 - 480 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 400 nm | 3.8 | 0.11 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000633 |
| PM | 480 - 630 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 470 nm | 3.8 | 0.11 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000677 |
| PM | 480 - 630 nm | FC/APC-FC/PC | < 470 nm | 3.8 | 0.11 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000868 |
| PM | 630 - 820 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 620 nm | 4.5 | 0.11 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000678 |
| PM | 630 - 820 nm | FC/APC-FC/PC | < 620 nm | 4.5 | 0.11 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000764 |
| PM | 810 - 980 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 800 nm | 5.5 | 0.11 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000679 |
| PM | 980 nm | 2 x FC/APC | 6.6 | 1 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000716 | ||
| PM | 980 nm | 2 x FC/APC | 6.6 | 0.5 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000717 | ||
| PM | 980 - 1300 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 970 nm | 6.6 | 0.11 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000661 |
| PM | 1290 - 1550 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 1280 nm | 9.5 | 0.11 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000680 |
| PM | 1460 - 1625 nm | 2 x FC/APC | < 1450 nm | 10.5 | 0.11 | 3 m | 3 mm PVC | #OK-000319 |
| AR/HP Patchcords | ||||||||
| PM/AR | 760 - 855 nm | 2x FC/AFC + AR | < 760 nm | 5.5 | 0.11 | 3m | 3mm PVC | #OE-000660 |
| PM/HP | 760 - 980 nm | FC/AFC + HP | < 760 nm | 5.5 | 0.11 | 3m | 3mm PVC | #OE-000796 |
Options & Related Products
Options & Related Products
Isolation is often required for diode lasers to protect them from back reflections. For grating stabilized diode lasers like TOPTICAs scientific diode laser series, optical isolation is mandatory for reliable single frequency operation if the laser is fiber coupled. Depending on the laser, single stage or double stage isolators are recommended.
Related Products:
- FiberDock fiber coupler
- SmartDock fiber coupler for iBeam smart
- FiberOut fiber collimator
- Optical isolators
- TOPTICA diode lasers
- TOPTICA ps / fs seeder lasers
Applications
Applications
Please refer to the Application pages.
