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SCHOTT Industrial Fiber Optic Components and LED Solutions Product Leaflet

The leaflet introduces SCHOTT’s industrial fiber optic components and LED solutions, describing the company’s 40‑year history in high‑quality glass, fibers and optical systems for markets such as automotive, lighting, medical, industrial and defense. It explains the physical principles of LEDs and optical fibers, including core‑cladding structure, total internal reflection, and the impact of numerical aperture and spectral transmission.

Further sections detail the manufacturing and design of light guides, fiber types, mechanical protection, and various termination methods (epoxied, hot‑fused, grinding & polishing). The document also describes SCHOTT’s fiber‑drawing and cable‑extrusion technologies, lightline production methods, and example applications ranging from machine‑vision illumination to X‑ray imaging and semiconductor inspection.

Covers: Introduction · Physical principles of LEDs · Physical principles and properties of optical fibers · Manufacturing/Design of light guides · Fiber types · Mechanical protection