SCHOTT's industrial fiber optic components and LED solutions offer a wide range of new choices for lighting, sensing, imaging, and other industries.
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.
| Minimum cladding thickness (visible range) | 2 µm |
|---|---|
| Fiber drawing diameter range | 30–120 µm |
| Temperature stability of epoxied ends | up to 120 °C |
| Temperature resistance of hot‑fused ends | up to 350 °C |
| Transmission increase with hot‑fused ends | +15 % |
| Fresnel reflection loss at fiber ends | ≈11 % |
The cladding must be at least 2 µm thick to ensure total internal reflection in the visible spectrum.
Hot‑fused ends can operate continuously at temperatures up to 350 °C.
Fresnel reflections at the input and output surfaces cause about an 11 % combined transmission loss.