Fiberoptic Products
A fiberoptic faceplate is the optical equivalent of a zero-thickness window providing a high dielectric strength vacuum interface that can also be used for field-flattening, distortion correction, and contrast enhancement. Faceplates are available in round, square, concave, or convex surfaces. They are used for cathode ray tubes, image intensifiers, CCD/CMOS windows, image plane transfer devices, and X-ray blocking applications, among others. Click here to view material data. Learn more about how INCOM’s faceplates are used in the following markets: Dental, Medical, Defense/Homeland Security, Scientific
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Fiberoptic tapers offer a low-distortion method of magnifying or, more typically, reducing an image for image transfer applications. Tapers manufactured from billets produced using INCOM's revolutionary MEGAdraw process have zero shear distortion and blemish quality higher than normally available. Our large diameter fiberoptic tapers (LDFOTs) are the largest available in the world. INCOM's tapers have many applications, including X-ray imaging, remote viewing, helmet mounted imaging, CCD coupling, image intensification, and X-ray crystallography. Click here to view material data. Learn more about how INCOM’s tapers are used in the following markets: Medical, Defense, Homeland Security, Scientific |
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Fiberoptic microwell arrays support sensitive biological analyses and offer economic advantages over conventional arrays. Researchers use microwell arrays to gather high-speed, high-density direct contact data reliably from fluorescence- and luminescence-based assays.
INCOM mates fiberoptic faceplates to standard 96-, 384-, and 1536-well microtiter plates, coats fiberoptic faceplates with a polymer material using a photolithographic process and chemically removes fiber cores to specified depths. Scientists can specify well diameters, depths, and well-to-well spacings; each well can be interrogated by over 50 million optical fibers per square inch to provide exceptional resolution. INCOM's fiberoptic faceplates act as an image-plane transfer device in which the image is transferred from one side of the faceplate to the other. This enhances resolution and increases signal-to-noise ratio when compared to a conventional glass or polystyrene bottom.
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Learn more about how INCOM’s microwell arrays are advancing the Life Sciences field.
Capillaries are a high-quality ordered array, similar to image conduits except that the solid optical fibers are replaced with hollow glass tubes. INCOM uses the same highly developed glass drawing technology to produce these hollow arrays in a wide variety of cross sections, pore sizes, and lengths. The hollow tubes are manufactured in clear or crosstalk-reducing black glass. INCOM’s microcapillary array plates consist of dense orderly arrays of flow-through capillaries that are used in a wide variety of analysis, sensing, and processing functions. The plates are manufactured using advanced technology that gives unprecedented flexibility in the choice of capillary internal diameter (ID) and plate thickness at a lower cost than traditional technology.
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Learn more about how INCOM’s microcapillary array plates advance the Life Sciences and Homeland Security.
FOI (fiberoptic interrogated) microfluidic devices incorporate an analysis zone optically interrogated by thousands of minute optical fibers–enabling real time monitoring of fluorescence- or luminescence-based reactions, cell counting, or spectroscopic type analysis. These devices are custom-patterned on a fiberoptic substrate designed to enhance optical resolution and increase the signal-to-noise ratio for bottom-reading applications. FOI microfluidic devices are well-suited for CCD counting applications or monitoring with inverted microscopy.
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INCOM's rigid light transfer device offers a simpler, more economical, and higher performance solution over flexible technology in many applications. The image conduit is fused glass-to-glass with no epoxy binder, which means they can be used where exposure to elevated temperatures is required. The drawing process eliminates the interstitial voids and inefficient packing inherent to flexible fiber assemblies, so light transmission is increased.
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Inverters are a special type of fiberoptic faceplate that rotate an image through a predetermined angle (e.g., 180 degrees). The advantages of an inverter over a lens system include higher speed, compactness, absence of vignetting and lens aberrations, wide control of image rotation angle, and near-elimination of optical realignment caused by thermal expansion.
Learn more about how INCOM’s image inverters are used in the defense industry.
