IRF-Se Series Chalcogenide Long-wave Infrared (LWIR) Fiber (1.5 to 10µm)
Chalcogenide glass is based on the chalcogen elements (sulfur, selenium and tellurium) with the addition of other elements such as arsenic, antimony, or germanium). It offers promising properties such as transmission in mid and far infrared regions of spectra, lower values of phonon energies, high refractive index and very large nonlinearities as compared to silica. Chalcogenide glass fibers are the ideal candidates for mid-infrared applications that require high power laser delivery, chemical sensing, thermal imaging and temperature monitoring.
IRflex’s IRF-Se Series long-wave infrared (LWIR) fiber, made from extra high purity chalcogenide glass As2Se3, is specially designed and manufactured to generate and/or guide mid-infrared wavelengths from 1.5 to 10µm with high transmission efficiency and nonlinearities about 1000 times that of silica glass fiber.
IRF-Se-100 multimode LW mid-IR fiber has transmission range from 1.5 to 8µm, with minimum loss of 0.29 dB/m at 3.95µm wavelength.
IRF-Se-100R multimode LW mid-IR fiber has transmission range from 1.5 to 10µm, with minimum loss of 0.34 dB/m at 5.96µm wavelength.
IRF-Se-12 singlemode LW mid-infrared fiber has transmission range from 1.5 to 9.7µm, with minimum optical loss of 0.32 dB/m at 2µm wavelength. This step-index LWIR fiber has a core of 12µm diameter, NA of 0.47 and core refractive index of 2.7. The fiber is truly singlemode for wavelength larger than 7.4µm cutoff. This single-mode longwave mid-infrared fiber can be used for direct transmission or supercontinuum generation in the long wave mid-infrared.
All the fibers can be sold as bare fiber or terminated with connectors and sold as cables.
The standard fiber cables are terminated with FC/PC, FC/APC or SMA905 connectors with stainless steel ferrules. IRflex's FC/B® connector - the FC connector at Brewster Angle enables perfect coupling without reflection with polarized laser beam, is also available upon request.
The standard protective jacket is stainless steel with PVC sheathing. Other different cable jacket assembling configurations like stainless steel, PVDF, PVC and stainless steel with clear FEP sheathing (vacuum compatible) are offered upon request.
