Round light guide rods
For applications requiring cylindrical rigid light guide geometries.
- Round rods
- Tapered rods
- Customer-specified diameters and lengths
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Rigid Light Guide Slabs & Rods
Rigid light guides in round-rod, rectangular-slab, and parallelogram geometries, with optically polished surfaces and optional coatings.
- Germany-based supplier and manufacturing partner
- Manufacturing to customer specifications
- Optical inspection and measurement against specified requirements
- From single components and prototypes to repeat supply
Product overview
Available in a range of standard and custom geometries, with dimensions, surface polishing, end-face quality, and edge conditions specified to suit the application.
Configurations
Rectangular light guide slabs
For rigid light guides requiring rectangular cross-sections and specified polished surfaces.
- Rectangular slabs
- Square or rectangular cross-sections
- Two, four, or all faces optically polished
Parallelogram light guides
For optical layouts requiring a defined parallelogram-shaped geometry.
- Parallelogram-shaped light guides
- Customer-specified angles and dimensions
- Optical surfaces polished as required
Custom geometries
For non-standard light guide geometries manufactured to customer drawings and specified dimensional and surface requirements.
- Customer-defined outer geometries
- Specified polished surfaces
- Specified end-face and edge requirements
Coating capabilities
Input and output faces, as well as other specified optical surfaces, can be supplied uncoated or with customer-specified coatings for the required wavelength or wavelength range.
- AR coatings on one or both end faces
- Laser-line AR coatings at specified wavelengths
- Broadband AR coatings for UV, visible, and NIR ranges
- Dual-wavelength AR coatings
- Protective and other customer-specified coatings
Representative examples
- Sapphire IPL light guide, 60 × 40 × 16 mm, all faces optically polished
- Tapered F4 glass light guide rod, Ø5.33 mm × 25.4 mm, all faces optically polished
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RFQ PREPARATION
What to send for a quote
Please send your drawing or technical specification together with the following information.
- Material
- Geometry and overall dimensions
- Polished surfaces, end-face and edge requirements
- Operating wavelength range, input/output apertures, coupling conditions, and coating requirements
- Required quantity