The iXBlue Photonics family of active fibers includes Er, Yb, Tm, Ho, Nd, Er/Yb and Tm/Ho Doped Fibers. Single Clad or Double Clad configuration are dedicated for your laser or amplifier design. Our fibers cover a comprehensive wavelengths range from 0.94 µm to 2 µm. Our active fibers can be used in different applications such as communication, CATV, lidar, laser processing, medical, Defense, space or harsh environment.

ERBIUM DOPED FIBERS

YTTERBIUM DOUBLE CLAD DOPED FIBERS

ERBIUM / YTTERBIUM DOUBLE CLAD DOPED FIBERS

The IXF-PMG family of fibers consists of advanced performances Polarization Maintaining Fibers specially designed for Fiber Optic Gyroscopes for terrestrial and space environment.

The glass chemical composition and the proper choice of raw materials guarantee an extremely low sensitivity to temperature variation.

Fiber diameter control is critical during coil winding; our fibers exhibit high stability coating diameter not only along each batch, but also from batch to batch.

For pump and signal delivery

iXFiber passive fibers find their application in standard to harsh environment, from biotechnology to oil & gas or nuclear applications.

Our passive fiber product line includes a range of polarization maintaining fibers, single and multi modes fibers, photosensitive fibers and double clad fibers.

iXBlue Photonics single mode fibers have been designed to offer low-loss transmission with minimal degradation in challenging application from short wavelength to near IR and with dedicated coating and core glass composition for high temperatures or harsh environments.

iXFiber Polarizing (PZ) fiber is designed such that only one state of polarization is guided along the fiber; any other state of polarization will be lost rapidly thus yielding a high built-in polarization extinction ratio. This particular mechanism is obtained through a specific waveguide design and a careful optimization of the glass composition resulting in both high birefringence and leakage behavior. PZ fibers are available at different wavelengths with a broad polarizing window (typically larger than 100 nm), low attenuation and high extinction ratio (≥30 dB), that can be tuned by coiling the proper fiber length at the appropriate coil diameter. Contrary to in-line polarizers, the PZ fiber based polarizer is an All-Fiber solution offering superior polarization extinction ratio, low loss and excellent stability over temperature. iXBlue Photonics is also offering customized solutions including connectors, patch-cords and cables.

By spinning the preform during the fiber drawing, it is possible to preserve linear and circular polarization on Polarization Miaataining Optical Fibers that are originally highly birefringent.

iXBlue Photonics is offering fibers for 1310 and 1550 nm with an optimized spinning rate to minimize the thermal and vibrational dependence of the output polarization.

Due to this low thermal polarization dependence, our spun fibers make them ideal for high-sensitivity Fiber Optic Current Sensors (FOCS) with limited noise effect when measuring polarization axis changes caused by the Faraday effect.

For Bragg Grating

iXFiber Photosensitive Single Mode Fibers have been designed to suppress the cladding modes losses (CMF Cladding Mode Free) or to adapt the cladding mode offset (CMS Cladding Mode Shifted) in order to optimize the channel spacing.

Photosensitive fibers exhibit uniform and controlled photosensitivity to conventional UV radiation techniques and are available in a wide range of photo-sensitivity levels.

HARSH ENVIRONMENT FIBERS : POLYIMIDE FIBERS

Coatings & buffering for harsh environment

For more than 10 years, iXblue Photonics has developed large experience in the use of optical fibers in extreme conditions from undersea to space environment, oil and gas, nuclear, medical, and aerospace applications.

iXblue Photonics in now offering a large variety of most adapted coating and buffer options, beyond standard acrylate coating to optimize the product lifetime in those difficult operating environment.

iXBlue is also involved in the development of new types of specialty optical fibre that are offering wide range of novel optical properties depending of the function needed in the fiber.

With a close collaboration with Photonics Bretagne and its technical Platform PERFOS, iXBlue can also promote custom design of microstructured and photonics crystal fibers. 

From Holey fibers with solide silica core, to photonic bandgap strucutres, many varieties of microstructured fibres can be design, fabricate and characterize by Photonics Bretagne.

Fiber Bragg Grating mirror is a critical component ideal for high power fiber laser.
iXFiber mirrors have been customized to address the specific requirements of high efficiency and low noise laser applications.
iXBlue Photonics offers these wavelength-selective mirrors on a complete range of specialty fibers for standard and high power handling. Optimized manufacturing process and testing ensure their long-term reliability in fiber laser.

iXFiber Gain Flattening Filter restores all wavelengths to approximately the same intensity.

The high flexible process allows a fast prototype delivery time. Fiber Bragg Grating technology achieves low systematic errors. Chirped and Slanted (iXTra) FBG are performed on internal specialty fiber to achieve High Return Loss and High Frequency Ripple. Furthermore, iXBlue Photonics GFF can be delivered with Polarization Maintaining Fiber (PMF).

iXBlue Photonics proposes a wide range of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG) products for the following applications :

• Laser Diode Stabilizers

• Wavelength selective Filters for telecommunications (WDM Mux/Demux, slope filters) and customer specific applications

• Broadband Filters

• Dissipative Filters

• Wavelength shift components for temperature, strain or surrounding refractive index sensing

This in-fiber core component is designed and manufactured flexibly to match your specific filter response. Fast turn-around can help you in determining the best solution with assurance of reliability based on over 15 years experience. We propose a wide wavelength range (800 to 2100 nm) and various grating protection.

FBG SENSOR ARRAYS

iXBlue Photonics offers the possibility to have one or multiple High Reflectivity FBGs 

with customized central wavelengths on a single optical fiber without any splice.

FBGs are suitable to detect strain, temperature, pressure change in various applications.

iXFiber single-frequency fiber lasers are based on UV Bragg grating technology applied to active rare-earth photosensitive fibers.

Ultra short cavity length and pi phase-shifted design permit ultra-narrow linewidth and robust mode-hop-free laser source properties, ideal for various sensor applications (acoustic, interferometry, spectroscopy).