Fiberguide Industries, Inc. Thermocoat SFS100/120T

When looking for a high quality, general purpose, fiber with superior transmission and a numerical aperture (N.A.) of 0.22 for efficient light coupling, the Superguide™ SFS is the fiber of choice. The Superguide™ fiber is drawn from preforms manufactured by the Plasma Outside Deposition (POD) process. Rods of extremely pure synthetic fused silica are coated with fluorine doped silica layers to obtain preforms with step-like refractive index profiles. Plasma torches prepare the reaction compounds from SiCl4, O2, and a fluorine containing gas. Strong thermal gradients combined with the temperature plasma lead to chemical deposition conditions, which allow very high fluorine concentrations to be incorporated in the fused silica network. Refractive index differences of 0.27 corresponding to numerical apertures in excess of 0.28 have been realized with undoped core rods.