Shvabe holding, Rostec State Corporation, and a team of young researchers from Povolzhskiy State University of Telecommunications and Informatics (PSUTI, Samara) are working on joint projects for the development of new optical fiber classes. Materials providing reliable connection for telecommunication networking are used in high-tech optical devices, including quantum communications systems.
A group of new unique microstructured optical fibers featuring induced chirality – longitudinal twisting – is one of key results of the intellectual cooperation between Shvabe and PSUTI. Such materials are used in various photonics and sensorics sectors. For example, in optical tweezers, fiber-optic sensors and optical vortex “generators”.
“Now, optical fibers are rather extensively forcing out copper cables used before in remote metering, remote control and other common onboard and field data transfer network applications. The fiber is more light-weight, space-saving, immune to electromagnetic interference and, more importantly, has a considerably large bandwidth,” said Oleg Evtushenko, Rostec’s Executive Director.
A new class of quartz optical fibers with extremely oversized core – up to 100µm instead of 50µm and 62.5µm – is another joint development of Shvabe and PSUTI. Thus, the optical fiber provides high reliability of a data transfer network in presence of vibrations and possible dust and suspension loaded conditions.
