Ultra Low-Profile Hermetic Fiber Optic Interconnect

Leveraging our over 20 years of fiber optical component manufacture expertise, Photowares proposes to design, prototype, and test an 80µm polarization maintain (PM) fiber hermetic interconnect that is 3mm long for the next-generation compact interferometric inertial sensors.    The proposed approach is based on our established processes in mounting electro-optical and acoustic crystals, which we have developed for the commercial production of fiber optical modulators and switches.  Phase I will perform a design and materials study to reduce the length of currently available hermetic optical fiber interconnects.  A unique advantage of the proposed program is our hermetic fiber packaging design know-how and fast-turn- in-house fabrication to validate the design concept.