Until now, access to the technology was limited to commercial or academic collaborations.
The new optical fibre will be used in high-power lasers, high bandwidth communications and visible and infrared sensing.
The Southampton research centre is promoting the fibre technology by granting the wider business community access, enabling the evaluation of ORC fibres in products and research programmes at the earliest stages of development.
Professor Sir David Payne, director of the ORC writes:
“We wanted to enable any organisation to get hold of small quantities of a fibre that the ORC has already made or can easily make. As the ORC can now routinely make fibre that far exceeds the capability of fibre commercially available, this service gives external organisations access to usable samples of those fibres quickly and easily. This will enable engineers to see for themselves how these fibres can enhance their system performance and enable new products.”
Fibres that are available for sampling and to purchase include rare-earth-doped fibres with ultra-high dopant concentrations; large mode area fibres; high bend radius fibres; multi-trench fibres; and novel compositions with extreme aluminium or germanium concentrations.
The centre will hold a small range of research-grade fibres in stock for immediate delivery with the range continually adjusted over time to include cutting-edge fibres not commercially available.
Fibres will be supplied for engineering development and research only. Once an application requires volume supply and the market demand is established, the ORC will work with commercial fibre manufacturers to transfer the fibre to production.
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