Fibre coating measurement simplified
16 February 2021
A new, automated system from Arden Photonics has been developed to make measurement of fibre coatings simpler.
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Arden Photonics design and manufacture test equipment and components for the measurement of a range of properties of optical fibers. Our accurate and reliable products are trusted every day by some of the biggest companies in the worlds of telecoms, specialty optical fibers, optical components, fiber lasers, aerospace and more.
Arden Photonics FGC-GS measures specialty optical fibre geometries
5 September 2017
Optical fibre manufacturers can quickly assess the geometry of any optical fibre with a new high-speed automated measuring system from Arden Photonics.
Designed for production and R&D environments, the FGC-G range delivers repeatable, operator-independent results in less than 10 seconds. The comprehensive measurement capability for end-face geometries includes core diameter, core non-circularity, cladding diameter, cladding non-circularity and core-to-cladding concentricity.
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Reducing Measurement Uncertainty in Multimode Optical Fiber
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Encircled Flux (EF) is the final piece in the puzzle of reducing measurement uncertainty in multimode optical fiber cable loss measurements. It is potentially the biggest contribution to variations in loss measurements.
Arden Photonics upgrades MPX software to Version 8
6 July 2016
Arden Photonics has released new software for its MPX Modal Explorer, a system for checking the launch conditions into multimode fibre using real-time measurement of encircled flux.
The standards-compliant system is applicable to users of both MPX-1 (850nm) and MPX-2 (1300nm) units with a USB 2.0 interface between computer and MPX optical unit.
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The data centre market is a particularly wide-ranging one, with one of the driving forces in recent years the emergence of the hyperscale data centre or cloud service provider.
As the world struggles to settle into the ‘new normal’, today’s optical networks need to be flexible in their architecture blueprint, while adapting to new technologies to provide the kinds of new capacity and service options to meet accelerated demand for higher bandwidth.
To address the undeniable growing demand for higher bandwidth, optical vendors have been playing their role with the development of various coherent optical transceivers for different areas of the market, each with its own set of design considerations.
The demand for bandwidth has unarguably skyrocketed in recent years, thanks largely to the increased appetite for online gaming, content streaming and social-media use.
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Looking into the future of telecommunications, it could be argued that AI and telcos will effectively transform each other, explains Raf Meersman
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