OFS Medical Sterilization
Leave a CommentThe use of optical fiber and fiber-optic based sensors in the medical market is constantly growing. Prior to use inside the human body, fibers must be sterilized to ensure they are free of microorganisms and perform well during invasive and noninvasive medical applications such as urology, general surgery, ophthalmology, cardiology, endoscopy, dentistry, and medical sensing. […]
Optical Fiber in Factory Automation
Leave a CommentFactory automation has existed since General Motors implemented their automation department in 1947. Since then, companies around the world have been saving time and money using various control systems to improve quality, accuracy and precision.
Why is the Fiber Twisted?
Leave a CommentOptical fiber shape sensing is a form of distributed sensing that uses scattered signals from optical fibers to ascertain local curvature and twist and thus the shape of a given structure. The twist and bend information is recorded by an interrogator which then reconstructs the fiber shape through a series of geometric formulations. Although shape […]
The “Halo Effect”
Leave a CommentPerformance Under Tight Bends It’s not unusual these days for optical fiber to be installed under bends as low as 15 mm in diameter. But even under these demanding conditions, signal quality cannot be sacrificed. Therefore, manufacturers are continuously innovating new methods to improve fiber bend performance.
High Power Under Tight Bends
Leave a CommentLaser-induced Damage to Large Core Optical Fiber by High Peak Laser Power Adapted from manuscript by Dr. Xiaoguang Sun and Dr. Jie Li | rewrite by Anthea Croghan As medical applications are demanding optical fibers to transmit with increasingly higher peak powers and smaller bend diameters, it has become necessary to test and develop fibers […]
Sterilization Effects on Key Properties of Optical Fibers
Leave a CommentOptical fibers are successfully used in various areas, such as cardiology and so much more! Optical fibers are successfully used in various areas of medicine, including urology, general surgery, ophthalmology, cardiology, endoscopy, dentistry and medical sensing [1 – 4]. Prior to use inside a human body the fiber must be sterilized to ensure it is […]
Bandwidth of Avionics Cables – OM3 vs OM4
Leave a CommentFlightLink™ Avionics Cables OFS FlightLink™ OM3 Cable designed for commercial aircraft, is a perfect example of the application specific solutions that OFS manufactures. All fiber is manufactured at OFS and our broad portfolio of specialty materials for buffers, strength members and jackets allow us to tailor products to meet or exceed the requirements of a given […]
Standards Update: Bend-Insensitive Multimode Fiber
Leave a CommentEnterprise Networks Standardization of bend-insensitive multimode fiber (BIMMF) has been a very active area within the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Since the start of the year, more than a dozen contributions on the topic have been reviewed in the TIA working group TR-42.12 “Optical Fiber and Cable.”
Does Optical Fiber Have You Tied in Knots?
Leave a CommentTied in Knots At the upcoming PowerGen trade event in Orlando (December 11-13, 2012), OFS is proud to demonstrate HCS® (Hard Clad Silica) optical fiber, cable and field termination technology. Unlike telecommunications grade optical fibers, you can tie our products in knots. While we don’t recommend this in practice, seeing it first hand will help […]
In the Turbine, To the Turbine
Leave a CommentOFS | Your WINDPOWER Optical Fiber Solutions Partner The inquiry arrived through our sales guy on the west coast. A simple request with little detail and no hint at what the future would bear. “The customer is thinking about using fiber optics as a data link and they don’t have complete control over the operating […]