Gooch & Housego, a leading manufacturer of optical fibre products has launched a range of fibre collimators. In many applications incorporating optical fibre components light transitions from being guided in fibre to propagating as a collimated beam in free space. G&H’s non-contact style, single mode, fibre collimators incorporate achromatic lenses and employ coatings to minimize back reflections. Proprietary alignment and assembly processes guarantee a beam having low pointing error that is stable over a wide range of operating conditions.

The first collimators available have 2mm and 3mm beam diameters and operate at 840nm. This wavelength has been selected as it is often used in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems, a market in which G&H has a strong presence. Custom variants are available up on request and collimators can be integrated with fibre optic couplers. G&H’s strong optical design capability allows it to offer collimators across a wide range of operating wavelengths and with custom beam characteristics.

The Gooch and Housego Product Manager for Fibre Optic components,
Toby Reid, said “With this new range of fibre collimators we are able to support our customers in making the transition from fibre to free space particularly with our ability to integrate couplers and collimators. We have already seen a strong demand for these components from OCT customers and we expect that they will be widely used in instrumentation applications and many other fields.”

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Gooch & Housego will be exhibiting at OFC / NFOEC, San Diego Convention Centre, San Diego, California, USA on 23rd – 25th March 2010. Table No T1843.

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