BWI: Fiberguide’s Graded Index Fibers Ideal for Telecommunications

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Fiberguide Industries
Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:05 AM IST (04:35 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Telecommunications; Technology; Healthcare
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Fiberguide's Graded Index Fibers Ideal for Telecommunications
Only graded index fibers available with gold, polyimide and aluminum coatings

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tuesday, February 01, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) -- For reliable use in data communication links, Fiberguide Industries provides its AGIT Series of Graded Index Silica core/ Silica clad optical fibres.

The AGI Series offers the high bandwidth of single mode fibres with the convenient termination of step-index multimode fibres. The result is a fibre with good bandwidth that can be used with lower cost light emitting diodes, making it a popular choice for medium distance data communication links such as local area networks (LANs).

Fiberguide Industries is the only supplier of graded index silica fibres to offer premium coatings for reliable performance in extreme temperature conditions such as polyimide (-190ºC to +350 ºC), aluminium (-269ºC to +400 ºC) and gold (-269ºC to +700ºC). Fibres are also available in a variety of sizes to fit customer applications. The AGI Series 50/125 is available with core diameters from 50µm ± 3µm and clad diameters from 125µm ± 1µm/-3µm. The AGI Series 62.5/125 has core diameters from 62.5µm ± 3µm and clad diameters from 125µm + 1µm/-3µm.

About Fiberguide
Fiberguide Industries, Inc. manufactures a comprehensive line of standard and custom high optical transmission fibres and ultra precision arrays. The company is a subsidiary of the global technology group Halma p.l.c. (www.halma.com), which also includes photonics specialists Ocean Optics (www.oceanoptics.com), a leader in spectroscopy and optical thin films, and Labsphere (www.labsphere.com), a recognized expert in the light metrology field. Registered by the United States Food and Drug Administration(FDA) as a Contract Manufacturer and Custom Device Manufacturer, Fiberguide's corporate and optical fibre manufacturing facilities are located in Stirling, New Jersey, with a manufacturing/assembly facility in Caldwell, Idaho.

About Halma
Halma p.l.c. is an international market leader in safety, health and sensor technology. A public company listed on the London Stock Exchange, it has over 3600 employees in over 40 subsidiaries worldwide with a total turnover of over US$780m (2008). Halma's subsidiaries make products that protect lives and improve the quality of life for people through innovation in market leading products which make its customers safer, more competitive and more profitable. These subsidiaries are assisting India's thriving economy in areas such as manufacturing, energy, water and waste treatment, the environment, construction, transport and health.

Halma recently opened a Hub office in Mumbai. For further news about Halma in India and to subscribe to the Halma India RSS News Feed please visit our blog at: http://halmapr.com/news/india/.

Fiberguide head office contact details:
Fiberguide Industries
1 Bay Street
Stirling, NJ 07980
USA
Phone: 908-647-6601; Fax: 908-647-8464
E-mail: info@fiberguide.com
Website: www.fiberguide.com

Photo: http://halmapr.com/fiberguide/FG GradedIndex EMAIL.jpg


CONTACT DETAILS
Mr Kuniyur. J. Srinivasan, Country Head & Managing Director, Halma India, +91 (22) 42000700, Srini@halma.com
Damian Corbet, Halma PR Services, +44 (0) 20 8511 1821, dcorbet@halmapr.com

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CONSUMER, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY, HEALTHCARE

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