Medical industry
Specialty optical fibers are widely used in the medical field. By modifying properties like numerical aperture, NA, core and cladding diameters, and coating material, the fibers can be adopted to different applications.
Many optical fibers used in medical sensors have a thin polyimide coating for a a small cross section and to withstand the sterilisation processes. The polyimide coating provide excellent strength, tight geometry tolerances and can be supplied with any fiber type and fiber dimensions from 60 µm up to more than a millimetre. The temperature resistance of the polyimide is difficult to match with other polymer materials.
Relevant Fibertronix products include:
- Polyimide coated optical fiber
- Reduced clad optical fiber
- High NA singlemode and multimode optical fiber
- Tefzel buffered solutions
Contact us to discuss requirements in Medical applications.