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Optical Fiber Coatings

Optical Fiber Coatings

Verrillon offers a wide variety of optical fiber coatings and waveguide designs that can be combined and tailored to your specific requirements.

  • Single and dual coat acrylates
  • Custom formulation acrylates
  • Low index polymeric coatings
  • Hermetic carbon coatings
  • High temperature polyimides
  • Addition and condensation cured silicones
  • PFA, Tefzel, Nylon and Hytrel extruded buffering materials
  • Thin fluoropolymer coatings/claddings

Below is a description of the performance characteristics of Verrillon’s coating types:

Coating  Temperature Rating Mechanical Robustness Chemical Resistance  
Carbon

Hermetic Layer

Excellent

Excellent

Acrylate

-40<C<85

Good

Fair

Mid-Temp Silicone/Acrylate

-40<C<150

Good

Good

Silicone/PFA

-40<C<200

Good

Good

Polyimide

-40<C<300

Good

Excellent