Mumbai: (Business Wire India) Delivering reliable operation in extreme conditions, Fiberguide Industries provides its metal jacket series of gold and aluminium coated optical fibres. These fibres have proven effective in a number of scientific applications including Raman spectroscopy for high temperature analytical measurements.

Originally developed for ultra high reliability telecommunications, the metal coating preserves the fibre’s mechanical strength and provides resistance against static fatigue caused by long term tensile loading. Gold and aluminium coated fibres also can withstand a wide range of temperatures, with aluminium coated fibres rated from -269°C to +400°C and gold rated from -269°C to 700°C.

Gold or aluminium coating can be applied on continuous lengths to a wide variety of multimode, step index, graded index and single mode fibres. Core to clad ratios of 1.1, 1.2 and 1.4 are available with numerical apertures of 0.12 and 0.26. Non-standard sizes can also be manufactured by request.

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.