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Specialty (custom) optical fiber
At RISE Fiberlab, we provide custom fiber development and specialty optical fiber production services, from first idea to qualified prototype and pilot series, tailored to your needs and timeline.
Why choose RISE Fiberlab?
- Proven experience with demanding customers in defense, aerospace, energy, medical, and industrial sensing.
- Flexible, cost-efficient collaboration, from one-off samples to hundreds of kilometers.
- State-of-the-art fiber drawing facilities and ISO-9001 certification.
- Realistic delivery times.
- Support from a team of experts on custom optical fibers and fiber sensing, both scientific and industrial.
We help you develop the fiber you need — not just what’s available off the shelf.
- Our specialty optical fiber-page lists some examples if our fibers.
Our Facility and resources
All resources in Fiber Optics at RISE are made available when needed. These resources include:
- Three 17m high draw towers
- Processes for silica-based glasses and preforms
- Fiber diameters range from 25µm to several mm
- Processes for a range of coatings, including
- High temperature polyimide
- Acrylate (standard telecom acrylate, low index, hard clad silica, mid/high temperature acrylate)
- Silicone
- Ormocer
- Hermetic carbon
- Specialty coating materials
- Processes for extruded buffers, including
- Nylon
- PFA
- PTFE
- PEEK
- Hytrel
- Specialty buffer materials
- Preform design and specification
- Optical characterization of preforms and optical fibers
- Material analysis resources, including scanning electron microscope (SEM)
- Tensile strength tests and proof test of fiber
- Access to labs for reliability tests
- Glass workshops and mechanical workshops
How do we work?
- Design and material selection
Collaborative development of glass types, cladding structures, coatings, and buffers, we'll guide you to what’s technically feasible and robust. - Preform processing and fiber drawing
Three ISO 9001-certified, 17m tall, draw towers allow for precision prototyping, fast iterations, and full documentation. - Coating and post-processing
We apply high-performance coatings in-house and support additional extruded buffer coatings where needed. - Testing and documentation
Full traceability, test reports, and fiber characterization data, ready for your internal approval or customer documentation. - Pilot and small-series production
Once proven, we scale your fiber up to volume deliveries ideal, for sensor and OEM applications.
