SCHOTT is a leading international technology group in the areas of specialty glass and glass-ceramics. The company has more than 130 years of outstanding development, materials and technology expertise and offers a broad portfolio of high-quality products and intelligent solutions. SCHOTT is an innovative enabler for many industries, including the home appliance, pharma, electronics, optics, life sciences, automotive and aviation industries.
FLEXIBLE LIGHT GUIDES
Flexible light guides make it possible to direct light from any chosen point, balancing any relative movement between the light source, the illuminated object or the detector. Light guides consist of a single fiber or compact fiber bundles surrounded by a sheathing. The end faces are mounted and glued in ferrules at either end which are then ground and polished.
In order to provide you with the ideal solution for your application, we at SCHOTT Lighting and Imaging offer next to a wide range of different fiber types a variety of sheathings and heavy duty end surface terminations. We can look back at over four decades of expertise in the design of customized light guides for different industries and are proud to offer you a fast, innovative and reliable service.
Fiber types
SCHOTT Lighting and Imaging produces a large range of fibers with different optical characteristics, e. g. numerical apertures, transmission, bending radii and high resistance against heat.
These fibers can be drawn to customer specific diameters.
Please find enclosed the detailed information of the most important fiber types in "Downloads".
Sheathing
Whether and for how long a light guide operates reliably depends to a large extent on the protective sheathing. SCHOTT Lighting and Imaging offers many different types of sheathing, so that fiber bundles can be protected against varied mechanical and physical environments. The sheathing is an integral structural component of any light guide. There is a standard range of protective sheathing including e.g. PVC, TPU and protective tubes to suit particular applications.
End surface termination
Depending on your needs different end surface termination types are available. In addition to the standard termination with epoxy, we offer special termination methods for maximized light efficiency and resistance against high temperatures.
LIGHT CONDUCTING RODS
In addition to our range of flexible fiber optic components SCHOTT Lighting and Imaging offers a range of rigid fiber optic light conducting rods - solid fiber optic elements which can be used to transmit light over short distances whenever flexible light guides are not required.
SCHOTT Lighting and Imaging offers light conducting rods in various diameters and for different spectral ranges. Fiber cones and specially shaped fiber rods are also available. Economic production is possible thanks to the use of modern techniques for bending and polishing rods and attaching ferrules.
TAPERS
SCHOTT’s Tapers provide a method of magnifying or reducing an image with minimum distortion in image transfer applications.
All tapers are fabricated to customer specific requirements and can be machined into configurations from round to round, square to square, round to square or rectangular.
Sizes range up to 75 mm in diameter. Typical magnification ratios range up to 3:1.
FACEPLATES
Faceplates are used for high resolution, “zero thickness” image transfer applications that include CCD and CMOS coupling, CRT/LCD displays, image intensification, remote viewing, field flattening and x-ray imaging. In opto-electronic applications, faceplates are used as both input and output image intensifier windows.
All SCHOTT faceplates are fabricated to customer-specific requirements. Typical shapes are round or rectangular, and in a variety of sizes up to 320 x 320 mm formats. Typical element sizes range from as small as 4 µm to 25 µm or larger.
FLEXIBLE IMAGE GUIDES
Image guides consisting of flexible and coherent fiber optic bundles are the tool of choice for applications such as industrial inspection of systems or imaging in an hazardous environment where images must be transferred from remote locations.
Image guides in any format can be produced to meet non standard imaging applications. Their numerical aperture is typically 0.60 and standard lengths range from 610 to 4,500 mm.
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