Polarization Maintaining

PLMA-GDF-30/400, PM Passive Double Clad, Optical Fiber

SKU: PLMA-GDF-30/400

Coherent passive series of Large Mode Area (LMA) double clad fibers are ideal for high power monolithic fiber lasers and amplifiers. These passive fibers are based on a 30 micron diameter core and 400 micron diameter clad size with a low NA (0.06) core and are designed to work well with the active Yb-doped 30/400 LMA fibers. These fibers utilize the latest fiber design and NuCOAT coating technology to ensure excellent preservation of beam quality and extended operating life at the high power levels demanded by today’s industrial fiber laser applications. These fibers are available in both non-PM and PANDA-style PM fibers.

This product requires a purchase of a minimum quantity of : 8

PM-GDF-5/130, PM Passive Double Clad, Optical Fiber

SKU: PM-GDF-5/130

Coherent general purpose passive double-clad fiber is available in two-versions €” PANDA-style, polarization-maintaining (PM) and non-PM. Designed specifically to work with 5/130 Yb-doped active fibers for CW applications at lower powers, ensuring low loss and improved splice compatability. These fibers’ telecom-type geometrics are compatible with readily available low-cost pump diodes and fiber-based components. They utilize the latest fiber design and NuCOAT coating technology to ensure excellent preservation of beam quality and extended operating life demanded by today’s industrial fiber laser applications.

This product requires a purchase of a minimum quantity of : 41

FUD-3409, PM1060-GDF, Optical Fiber

SKU: FUD-3409

You have selected an application designed fiber, not fully released which may have a longer lead time than our standard products.

FUD-3738, PM-CMS7, Optical Fiber

SKU: FUD-3738

You have selected an application designed fiber, not fully released which may have a longer lead time than our standard products.

FUD-3304, PS-PM-GDF-20/400, Optical Fiber

SKU: FUD-3304

You have selected an application designed fiber, not fully released which may have a longer lead time than our standard products.

PM980C-HP, Panda-Type Coupler Select Cutoff PM, Optical Fiber

SKU: PM980C-HP

Coherent broad line of PM fibers now includes PM980C-HP & PM14XXC-HP coupler fibers. Components designed with these new coupler fibers exhibit insertion losses up to one order of magnitude better than was previously possible. These fibers also demonstrate superior polarization control in coupler applications, resulting in increased system and network efficiencies.

PS-PM980, Photosensitive Panda-Type Select Cutoff PM, Optical Fiber

SKU: PS-PM980

Coherent photosensitive 980 nm polarization maintaining fiber is designed to perform all functions of a 980 nm PM fiber but with enhanced photosensitivity for fabrication of gratings. This fiber is designed for use in pump diodes, couplers and multiplexers. PS-PM980 allows component manufacturers to make low cost fibertails for 980 nm pumps. Using one fiber that provides excellent photosensitivity, as well as polarization maintaining attributes, substantially reduces writing time thus lowering costs.

This product requires a purchase of a minimum quantity of : 36

PM980-400, Panda-Type Select Cutoff PM, Optical Fiber

SKU: PM980-400

Coherent Polarization Maintaining Telco fibers are designed for today’s most advanced networks. Optimized for use at 980 nm, these fibers are used in all PM applications for data and telecom. Coherent has applied its unique manufacturing facility and capabilities to this product area and has established leading optical, mechanical and geometrical tolerances. The bend insensitive versions of our fibers offer lowest bend loss and extinction ratios at small bend diameters enabling our customers to reduce package sizes. Available in either 250 or 400 micron coating diameters and prooftested to 200 kpsi, Coherent PM fibers will meet the demands of all current and future applications.

PM980B-XP, Bend Insensitive Panda-Type PM, Optical Fiber

SKU: PM980B-XP

Coherent Polarization Maintaining Telco fibers are designed for today’s most advanced networks. Optimized for use at 980 nm, these fibers are used in all PM applications for data and telecom. Coherent has applied its unique manufacturing facility and capabilities to this product area and has established leading optical, mechanical and geometrical tolerances. The bend insensitive versions of our fibers offer lowest bend loss and extinction ratios at small bend diameters enabling our customers to reduce package sizes. Available in either 250 or 400 micron coating diameters and prooftested to 200 kpsi, Coherent PM fibers will meet the demands of all current and future applications.

PM980B-400, Bend Insensitive Panda-Type PM, Optical Fiber

SKU: PM980B-400

Coherent Polarization Maintaining Telco fibers are designed for today’s most advanced networks. Optimized for use at 980 nm, these fibers are used in all PM applications for data and telecom. Coherent has applied its unique manufacturing facility and capabilities to this product area and has established leading optical, mechanical and geometrical tolerances. The bend insensitive versions of our fibers offer lowest bend loss and extinction ratios at small bend diameters enabling our customers to reduce package sizes. Available in either 250 or 400 micron coating diameters and prooftested to 200 kpsi, Coherent PM fibers will meet the demands of all current and future applications.

PM980-XP-80, Panda-Type Select Cutoff PM Optical Fiber, Optical Fiber

SKU: 1328632

Coherent new 80 um version in the Telcom Polarization Maintaining family is designed for today’s most advanced networks. This fiber is optimized for use at 980 nm and up, and can be used in all PM applications for data and telecom. The 80µm version offers the same performance and extinction ratios as the 125 um versions, but is specifically designed for low bend loss at the small bend diameters. This enables our customers to significantly reduce package sizes to meet the demands of all current and future applications. Coherent has applied its unique manufacturing facility and capabilities to this product area and has established leading optical, mechanical and geometrical tolerances. PM980-XP-80 is available with a 165 micron coating diameter and prooftested to 200 kpsi.

PM1300G-80/170-5, PM Panda-Type Gyro, Optical Fiber

SKU: PM1300G-80/170-5

Coherent 1300 nm PANDA-style PM Gyroscope fibers have extremely high birefringence and exceptionally tight dimensional specifications, critical for manufacturing high precision, high-performance gyro-coils. High consistency and extreme end-to-end control of optical properties provide particular advantage in this application by reducing fiber generated signal artifacts. The intrinsically high level of radiation resistance allows operation for extended periods of time on low earth orbits, near and deep space, and applications where exposure to man-made radiation is expected. The Panda-style configuration is preferred over bow-tie or elliptical clad designs because of its advantages in process scalability and product uniformity. These fibers are offered in industry standard specifications and Coherent high performance (HP) versions optimized for exceptional splicability and offering the tightest tolerance specifications available.

PM1300G-80/170-2HP, High-Performance PM Panda-Type Gyro, Optical Fiber

SKU: PM1300G-80/170-2HP

Coherent 1300 nm PANDA-style PM Gyroscope fibers have extremely high birefringence and exceptionally tight dimensional specifications, critical for manufacturing high precision, high-performance gyro-coils. High consistency and extreme end-to-end control of optical properties provide particular advantage in this application by reducing fiber generated signal artifacts. The intrinsically high level of radiation resistance allows operation for extended periods of time on low earth orbits, near and deep space, and applications where exposure to man-made radiation is expected. The Panda-style configuration is preferred over bow-tie or elliptical clad designs because of its advantages in process scalability and product uniformity. These fibers are offered in industry standard specifications and Coherent high performance (HP) versions optimized for exceptional splicability and offering the tightest tolerance specifications available.

PM1300G-80/135-2HP, High-Performance PM Panda-Type Gyro, Optical Fiber

SKU: PM1300G-80/135-2HP

Coherent 1300 nm PANDA-style PM Gyroscope fibers have extremely high birefringence and exceptionally tight dimensional specifications, critical for manufacturing high precision, high-performance gyro-coils. High consistency and extreme end-to-end control of optical properties provide particular advantage in this application by reducing fiber generated signal artifacts. The intrinsically high level of radiation resistance allows operation for extended periods of time on low earth orbits, near and deep space, and applications where exposure to man-made radiation is expected. The Panda-style configuration is preferred over bow-tie or elliptical clad designs because of its advantages in process scalability and product uniformity. These fibers are offered in industry standard specifications and Coherent high performance (HP) versions optimized for exceptional splicability and offering the tightest tolerance specifications available.

PM1060L-FA, Panda-Type Double Clad PM Optical Fiber

SKU: PM1060L-FA

Broad line of PM fibers now includes PM1060L & PM1060L-FA fibers. These fibers are optimized for operation at 1060 nm and feature a low 0.085 NA (L). They are ideally designed for pump combiner and coupler applications for single-mode fiber lasers. The PM1060L fiber is a single clad fiber and PM106-FA is double clad fiber to cover all your application needs. Utilizing the PANDA design, these fibers demonstrate superior polarization control, resulting in increased system efficiencies.

This product requires a purchase of a minimum quantity of : 9

PLMA-YDF-20/400-VIII, PM Yb-Doped Double Clad, Optical Fiber

SKU: PLMA-YDF-20/400-VIII

Coherent Large Mode Area (LMA) Ytterbium-doped double clad fiber is ideal for high power fiber lasers and amplifiers used in military, industrial, and medical applications. These fibers enable efficient, compact, diode pumped lasers that directly compete with traditional solid-state lasers. The fiber features a 20 micron diameter core and 400 micron diameter clad size with a low NA (0.06) core. With > 75% slope efficiency and compatibility with operating at > 1kW of CW output power, this fiber is ideal for use in high power single-mode industrial fiber lasers.

PM-NDF-5/125, PM Nd-Doped Double Clad, Optical Fiber

SKU: PM-NDF-5/125

Coherent Neodymium doped PM-double clad fiber is specifically designed for efficient single mode operation around 1060 nm when cladding pumped at 808nm. A 6 µm mode field diameter allows low splice losses to standard single mode fibers and the 125 µm cladding diameter is compatible with a variety of industry standard pump combiners. The polarization maintaining design enables construction of pulsed and CW PM fiber amplifiers.

This product requires a purchase of a minimum quantity of : 5

PLMA-YDF-10/125-VIII, PM Yb-Doped Double Clad Optical Fiber

SKU: PLMA-YDF-10/125-VIII

Featuring the latest Gen. VIII glass composition, Coherent large mode area (LMA) and PM-LMA Ytterbium-doped double clad fibers are ideally suited for applications spanning military, industrial and medical including linearly polarized fiber lasers and amplifiers. LMA Yb-doped fibers enable efficient, compact, diode pumped fiber sources that are an attractive alternative to traditional solid-state lasers. This fiber features a single-mode large core/cladding ratio with a low NA and is ideally suited for both CW and pulsed applications.

This product requires a purchase of a minimum quantity of : 3

PLMA-YDF-25/400-VIII, PM Yb-Doped Double Clad, Optical Fiber

SKU: PLMA-YDF-25/400-VIII

Coherent 25/400 Ytterbium-doped double clad fiber is ideally suited for high average power pulsed and narrow linewidth CW fiber amplifier applications. Based on a "few-moded" waveguide structure, this fiber is incorporated into components and monolithic designs where maintaining beam quality can be more difficult. In addition to the standard active fiber, Coherent can supply a matching passive support fiber for component and pigtail development efforts. As with all Coherent standard Large Mode Area (LMA) fibers, these fibers are proof-tested to 100 kpsi, an industry requirement for long term reliability when coiling for mode filtering.

PLMA-YDF-30/250-HI-8, PM Yb-Doped Double Clad, Optical Fiber

SKU: PLMA-YDF-30/250-HI-8

Coherent polarization maintaining 30/250 Ytterbium-doped double clad fibers based on Gen. VIII glass composition, offers a higher Yb dopant concentration than our original 30/250 LMA fibers. These fibers are specifically designed for short pulse amplification where fiber length is a critical design factor because of very high peak powers. The high absorption enables very short fiber amplifier lengths which will allow the fiber to operate at higher peak pulse powers without exceeding non-linear thresholds or sacrificing efficiency. Short pulse fiber amplifiers can be considered low-cost replacements for Nd:YAG lasers used in materials processing, LIDAR and range finding applications. This high absorption 30/250 Large Mode Area fiber is available in both a standard and a PANDA-style PM format.

This product requires a purchase of a minimum quantity of : 2

PLMA-YDF-25/250-VIII, PM Yb-Doped Double Clad Optical Fiber

SKU: PLMA-YDF-25/250-VIII

Coherent 25/250 Ytterbium-doped double clad fiber is ideally suited for high peak power pulsed fiber amplifier applications. Based on a waveguide structure that supports less modes than the 30/250 fiber, this fiber is incorporated into components and monolithic designs where maintaining beam quality can be more difficult. Both non-PM and PANDA-style PM fibers are available, as are a range of support fibers for component and pigtail development efforts. As with all Coherent standard Large Mode Area (LMA) fibers, these fibers are proof-tested to 100 kpsi, an industry requirement for long term reliability when coiling for mode filtering.

PLMA-YDF-30/400-VIII, PM Yb-Doped Double Clad, Optical Fiber

SKU: PLMA-YDF-30/400-VIII

Coherent 30/400 Ytterbium-doped double clad fiber is designed to combine the features of large 30 µm core diameter for generating high pulse energy together with a large 400 µm cladding optimized for high average powers, while still delivering good beam quality through the adoption of LMA fiber design. Available with latest generation of glass technology, the Gen. VIII 30/400-YDF fiber is available in two versions-standard and PANDA-stye PM.

PM-YDF-5/130-VIII, PM Yb-Doped Double Clad, Optical Fiber

SKU: PM-YDF-5/130-VIII

Coherent general purpose Ytterbium-Doped Double-Clad Fiber is available in two-versions €” PANDA-style, polarization-maintaining (PM) and non-PM. Designed specifically for CW applications around 1-15 W, these fibers are ideal for applications requiring low-cost fiber laser and amplifier source, such as laser marking, fiber amplifier pumps and IR sources for frequency doubling. These fibers’ telecom-type geometrics are compatible with readily available low-cost pump diodes and fiber-based components.

This product requires a purchase of a minimum quantity of : 5

PLMA-YDF-30/250-VIII, PM Yb-Doped Double Clad, Optical Fiber

SKU: PLMA-YDF-30/250-VIII

Coherent 30/250 Ytterbium-doped double clad Fiber is specifically designed for short pulse amplification where fiber length is a critical design factor because of very high peak powers. The high absorption enables very short fiber amplifier lengths without sacrificing efficiency. Short pulse fiber amplifiers can be considered low-costreplacements for Nd:YAG lasers used in materials processing, LIDAR and range finding applications. This 30/250 Large Mode Area fiber is available in both a standard and a PANDA-style PM format. Coherent also offers alternate versions of these fibers with higher Yb dopant concentration.

This product requires a purchase of a minimum quantity of : 3

PLMA-YDF-25/250-M, Matched PM Yb-Doped Double Clad Optical Fiber

SKU: PLMA-YDF-25/250-M

Coherent matched series of Large Mode Area (LMA) double clad fibers are ideal for high power monolithic fiber lasers and amplifiers. Featuring a matching set of LMA fibers, this series of fibers ensure splice compatibility across the entire chain of 25/250 fiber components required to make monolithic fiber lasers. This matched fiber series is based on a 25 micron diameter core and 250 micron diameter clad size with a low NA (0.065) core and consists of Yb-doped fiber and passive beam delivery fibers all made to highest tolerances in the industry. All fibers utilize the latest glass composition and NuCOATFA coating technology to ensure high slope efficiency, extended operating life and excellent beam quality at the high power levels demanded by today’s industrial fiber laser applications. These precision matched LMA fiber sets are available in non-PM (LMA) and PM (PLMA) versions.