Universal Clad (UniClad) optical fiber from Fiberguide (Stirling, NJ) is designed for integration into fiber based lasers and OEM systems performing high power transmission. The fiber uses a large core-to-clad ratio to reduce stress transfer to its core, maintaining laser beam quality and improving focal ratio degradation in lasers used for cutting, welding, drilling, soldering and marking. UniClad fiber has a pure fused silica core and doped fused silica cladding with a polymer coating. The fiber has a fixed 500μm cladding diameter for 100-400μm core sizes, and proportionately larger cladding for 600-800μm core sizes, to make laser alignment and splicing easier.

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This article first appeared in the March, 2013 issue of Photonics Tech Briefs Magazine (Vol. 37 No. 3).

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