The Military Market has a history of utilizing fiber optics as a media that offers improved bandwidth, weight and EMI/RFI immunity. Verrillon broadens the applications of fiber optics in defense and aerospace markets by offering the needed consistency, reliability, wide temperature ranges and radiation resistance.
For navigational guidance and control applications, fiber optic gyroscopes (FOG’s) are now the primary rotational sensor of choice. Verrillon offers a wide variety of polarization maintaining and advanced singlemode fibers for fiber optic gyroscope coils. Applying our advanced manufacturing and coating expertise provides fibers that are unmatched for uniformity and reliability. Designers can now offer smaller, more repeatable and reliable guidance and control systems to their land, sea, and space customers.
In advanced surveillance applications, the benefits of fiber optics media can be used for distributed acoustic, vibration, sonar, temperature, and pressure sensors. By matching the needs of the surveillance system with the optical and mechanical variety of Verrillon’s fiber product set, unmatched signal to noise ratios can be achieved. Verrillon’s long, consistent lengths of fibers are the key ingredients that deliver this improvement in Surveillance Systems’ performance.
Homeland Security has become increasingly important. Keeping your borders and communities safe and secure by offering early detection of threats is another application area where Verrillon’s fiber optic products play a key role. Early warning of unwanted persons, mobile platforms, chemicals, and other agents is driving the needs of these advance security systems. These systems can benefit from unique optical, mechanical, and coating attributes to detect designated threats.
Target acquisition applications can also be supported and improved via fiber optics. Laser based radar or Lidar systems use Verrillon's fiber optic products to direct and detect optical power to and from targets. Phased Array radar systems also use Verrillon’s fiber for remote array communication and control.
Advanced Weaponry now uses fiber optics for more applications. For example, new double clad fiber from Verrillon offers a building block for extremely high power fiber laser systems. Our advanced manufacturing facilitity and process offers the defect free products needed for reliable, high power performance. In Fiber Optic Guided Missile (FOGM) applications, Verrillon’s long lengths of high proof tested, fatigue resistance fiber fill a key component requirement.
Avoidance of threats via towed decoys uses the inherent bandwidth of fiber optics. Verrillon offers extremely high temperature fibers that can survive the exhaust plumes from today’s advanced aircraft.
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