Product FocusiXblue with its partners Airbus D&S and CILAS recently built an engineering bread board (EBB) model of a laser communication system dedicated to high data rate transmission in space. The aimed application was focused on feeder links between low earth orbital (LEO) satellites and ground stations. The goal was to carry out a full evaluation […]
Technologies and ProductsThe new additions to iXblue specialty fibres portfolio include a highly doped single clad 6 µm core diameter Ytterbium doped fibre and a low NA double clad 20 µm core diameter Ytterbium doped fibre The IXF-YDF-6-125 single clad Yb fibre features a 6 µm core and 125 µm cladding diameters. The doping level has been […]
Technologies and ProductsLeading supplier to high power 1.5 µm laser and amplifier manufacturers, iXblue Photonics has unveiled a new range of speciality fibre solutions. The company’s new double clad Erbium Ytterbium co-doped 10 µm fibre is described as an ideal gain medium for telecom/CATV amplifiers, delivering hundreds of milli-Watts to a few Watts, with high efficiency and […]
Applications and ResearchiXblue, which provides innovative solutions for navigation, subsea positioning and underwater imaging, has been chosen by the European Institute for Marine Studies (IUEM) to provide eight Canopus LBL transponders for a major geodetic mission off the coast of Sicily. Deployed on the seabed, 2,500 metres below the surface, the Canopus transponder network will measure the […]
Applications and ResearchAfter a first phase of design optimisation, an optical fibre, including twelve Erbium/Ytterbium co-doped cores, has been fabricated by a partnership of iXblue and Photonics Bretagne. The duo worked together as part of the Evolution des inFrastructures de réseaux de Fibres optiques grâce à L’Amplification à fibres Multi-coeurs (EFFLAM) project. The development can be viewed […]
Technologies and ProductsiXblue Photonics recently announced the launch of optical reference transmitters for -SR4 multimode and -ER4 -LR4 monomode LAN-WDM & C-WDM applications. The ModBox-PAM4 transmitter offers optical modulated output power signals of at least 5dBm at 850nm, 1310 nm or 1550 nm, generates PAM-4 data streams up to 28 Gbaud and NRZ up to 28 Gb/s, […]