Universal Clad (UniClad) optical fibre from Fiberguide is designed for integration into fibre based lasers and OEM systems performing high power transmission. The fibre uses a large core-to-clad ratio to reduce stress transfer to its core, maintaining laser beam quality and improving focal ratio degradation in lasers used for cutting, welding, drilling, soldering and marking.

UniClad fibre has a pure fused silica core and doped fused silica cladding with a polymer coating. The fibre has a fixed 500?m cladding diameter for 100-400?m core sizes, and proportionately larger cladding for 600-800?m core sizes, to make laser alignment and splicing easier. Complete high power laser assemblies are also available.

Fiberguide Industries manufactures a comprehensive line of standard and custom high optical transmission fibres and ultra-precision arrays. The company is a subsidiary of the global technology group Halma p.l.c., which also includes photonics specialists Ocean Optics, a leader in spectroscopy and optical thin films, and Labsphere, a recognized expert in the light metrology field.

Contact: Mr Kuniyur J. Srinivasan, Country Head & Managing Director, Halma India, Mumbai. Tel: 022-67080400. Fax: 91-22-67080405. Email: Srini@halma.com