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News Release from: Fibercore | Subject: Speciality optical fibres
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 March 2006
Speciality fibres come with special
qualifications
Fibercore is among the first speciality optical fibre manufacturers to offer commercially available environmental qualification and reliability testing for speciality fibres.
Fibercore is among the first speciality optical fibre manufacturers to offer commercially available environmental qualification and reliability testing for speciality fibres Using a dedicated laboratory, the fibres can be tested against globally recognised standards, such as Telcordia, or to meet an OEM's criteria
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Fibercore first began qualification and reliability testing as an in-house service to provide OEMs and their customers with comprehensive lifetime data for the company's speciality fibres.
Reliability data is essential as it provides confidence of service life in highly demanding speciality fibre applications for aerospace, space exploration, medical and telecomms components.
In many ways, reliability information is even more important for speciality fibres than it has been for more conventional, telecommunications for the simple reason that the desired lifetime can sometimes be longer than the history of the fibre technology used.
Dr Chris Emslie, Fibercore's Managing Director explains: "Whilst telecomms-specific standards serve as an excellent starting point, they can sometimes prove inadequate for the more rigorous testing environments encountered by speciality fibres".
"In the extremely demanding operating environments they inhabit, speciality fibres are subjected to far greater stresses than a telecomms fibre would ever be expected to endure".
"Fibercore's 24 years of speciality fibre experience and deep expertise within the industry enable us to develop an all encompassing bespoke service for our customers' fibre qualification needs".
The equipment within the state of the art laboratory includes temperature and humidity environmental chambers, a computer-controlled tensometer, a microscope to examine fracture surfaces and coating damage, and a full suite of equipment for optical and geometric fibre measurements.
Parameters published by the EIA (Electronics Industries Alliance) and the TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association) for Telcordia's relevant fibre optic test procedures (FOTP) are used.
Dr Emslie concludes: "Our goal is to provide accurate data to demonstrate that speciality fibres are capable not only of surviving an environment but are capable of outlasting the applications for which they were built".
"Speciality fibres need speciality qualification - it's as simple as that".
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