The “Materials and Processes for Optical Fibres” Domain aims to produce optical glasses preforms to produce original optical fibres. Our raw materials are high purity precursors (liquids, powders…)

 

Jean-Louis AUGUSTE

Responsable

05 55 45 73 86

Expertise Domain and Related Equipments

 

Expertise

  • Doped silica glasses realised by chemical way – Rare earth doping

  • Melt Quenching set up to realise Glass material
  • Gas purification (O2 / He / C2F6 / N2 / Ar) materials at high temperature (up to 2000°C)

  • Glass workshop for assembling

  • Fusion splicing and taper realisations
  • Refractive index profil measurements
  • Xray material quantification

Equipments

Tubular furnace (up to1200°C) under gas flow

Chemical facilities

isostatic press unit 2000bars, planetary ball milling machine
Burners O2/Propane and O2/H2

Sintering set-up with industrial interfacing system

gas flow and high temperature treatment

CO2 Splicing Unit – LZM100
X Ray measuring set-up (XRF Unit) Refrative Index Profile for optical Fibres IFA100 + Exfo9200

Services

– Silica Tubes Splicing, accurate cutting, assembling – Silica Rods machining – high temperature Sintering with gas flow (up to 2000°C) – Material treatment under gas flow (C2F6 / O2 / He …) and high temperature (up to 2000°C) – Tubular furnaces – Glass synthering by chemical way (wet) or Melt qunching Technique : Powder Producing – Powder compaction (up to 2000bars) – Refractive Index measurement on Optical Fibresv(from 80 to 350 microns) – Stress Optic measurement in Optical Fibres – Xray measurement for  glass composition – CO2 Splicing for Optical fibres – Taper realisation – stack and draw assembling under controlled environment … and more, ask for quotation