NORIA – the Fiber Bragg Grating manufacturing solution
Are you looking to buy an FBG manufacturing tool? NorthLab Photonics offers a turn-key system called the NORIA
– powered by Ibsen phase masks!
The NORIA tool is a manufacturing tool to produce Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs). A Deep Ultra Violet laser (Coherent Excistar XS 500Hz—ArF) and a phase mask (Ibsen Photonics) are used to transfer a periodic pattern into the core of a photosensitive optical fiber.
The NORIA tool holds a number of different masks in a revolver like holder, each mask having a different pattern periodicity. This flexibility allows the end-user to manufacture FBGs from predefined recipes in an automated fashion.
In addition, multiple FBGs in an array can be written along the fiber at any desired position using the NORIA tool’s accurate positioning stage.
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“Plug & Play” system for FBG manufacturing – ready to use after installation
NORIA – technical specification
| FBG details | ||
|---|---|---|
| Length | 10 mm | Standard feature. Option for smaller FBG lengths down to 1 mm |
| Full Width Half Maximum (FWHM) | <150 pm | Standard feature, part of predefined recipes |
| Side Lobe Suppression Ratio (SLSR) | >15 dB | Standard feature, part of predefined recipes |
| Default reflection coefficient | >50 % | Standard feature, part of predefined recipes |
| Central wavelength repeatability | ± 50 pm | Central wavelength accuracy is subject to variations in fiber NA from batch to batch |
| Illumination profile | Gaussian / Tophat | Default Gaussian or Tophat profile. Option to define other profiles |
| Fiber Outer Diameter (excl. coating) | 125 µm | Standard feature, option to accommodate smaller OD fibers e.g. 80, 60, 50 and 40 µm |
| Fiber coating | Acrylate / Polyimide | The fiber needs to be window stripped over a minimum of 20 mm at the desired FBG location. |
| System details | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cycle time | <30s | Cycle time defined as the total amount of time required to write a single highly reflective FBG. Includes fiber positioning, automatic mask selection, exposure and undocking of the fiber. |
| Available phase mask slots | 16 | Newly purchased phase masks can easily be inserted manually |
| Phase masks included | 4 | By default 4 high quality Ibsen phasemask are included in the NORIA |
| Default recipes | 4 | By default the NORIA has 4 predefined recipes allowing the end-user to manufacture 4 different FBGs in the C-band with approximately 5 nm wavelength separation |
| User friendly software interface | The software includes a recipe editor allowing the end-user to define FBG recipes. |
NORIA is sold by NorthLab Photonics. Please contact NorthLab Photonics for further information: Per Karlsson – per.karlsson@northlab.se
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