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Philosophy
Statement We believe
in consultative service and recognize the responsibility
to secure the faith and trust of all our customers.
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Mission
Statement FTI is devoted
to inventing, designing, and manufacturing efficient
fiber optic assemblies to transmit light for Medical,
Industrial, Machine Vision, and Commercial Lighting
applications worldwide. |
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Environmental
Statement We are committed
to protecting all living things and preserving our
natural resources through responsible product design,
safe and efficient manufacturing processes, aggressive
recycling practices and the use of prudent waste
management systems. |
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Privacy
policy We combine industry-standard
technical safeguards with a code of conduct for
those employees permitted to access our customer
information. |
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Condition
of Use All materials
contained on this website are provided by FTI as
a service to our visitors and may be used for informational
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Standard
Product Warranty FTI
warrants its standard fiber optic products manufactured
in Pomfret CT and Naples, FL to be free from defects
in material and workmanship for a two years unless
stated otherwise in a specific warranty. |
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Certifications
FTI maintains several certifications
complying with FDA, UL, CE and CSA or ETL. |
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Press
Release Archive A listing
of all Fiberoptics Technology, Inc. Press Releases
since Sept 2002. |
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Photo
Electric Control Cables FTI
manufactures glass and plastic photoelectric light
guides as an aftermarket service or OEM supplier. |
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Medical
Light Guides FTI carefully
manufactures over 500 different types of FDA approved
single and bifurcated medical cables to precise
specifications for fiber optic medical lighting.
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Light
Sources FTI designs
and manufactures a family of Fiber Optic Light Sources.
All are state-of-the-art, conforming with the latest
CSA or ETL and CE certifications. |
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Headlamps
Made from dependable, rugged
and comfortable materials, FTI headlamp systems
include an adjustable rigid head band,fixed or adjustable
spot, and an ergonomically designed lensing system. |
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Light
Lines FTI manufactures
standard lines from .125" to over 4 feet in
length which converts an optical path from a spot
to a line for many scanning applications. |
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Light
Guides FTI produces
thousands of different light guide designs for industrial
applications. |
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Goosenecks
The Gooseneck or Sta-Put
light guide provides a single or dual branch of
brilliant light. Flexible arms put the light where
you want it. |
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Backlights
This lighting method produces
a sharp, high contrast silhouette of an object.
The backlight is a sheet of white acrylic or frosted
glass plate evenly illuminated by a ribbon of fiber. |
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Fiberscopes
Also known as boroscopes
or endoscopes, Fiberscopes have a myriad of uses
in industrial inspection applications. |
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Ring Lights
Fiberoptic ring lights provide
360º of shadow free, on-axis, uniform, high
intensity illumination. |
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Tapers
FTI has extensive machining
and bending equipment to manufacture a wide variety
of optical rod and specialty tapers ideal for dental
and industrial curing applications. |
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Optical
Rod Optical rods are
used for windows to eliminate dust and dirt, viewing
ports for high vacuum systems, optical high voltage
isolators, light integrators to mix light coming
from a fiber and many other applications. |
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Raw
Fiber All fiber is made
from the highest purity glass available. The same
fiber used in our products is available to assemble
your own product or just experiment with an idea. |
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Light
Probe Kit A Fiber optic
light guide and specially designed interchangeable
probes to put light where you typically need it,
but can't get it. |
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Star
Ceilings FTI's Star
Ceilings use one lamp to illuminate a common bundle
that simulates a night sky. The effect is becoming
popular in hotels, night clubs, theatres, restaurants,
limousines and vans, and more recently, high end
home entertainment theatres. |
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Large
Core Fiber FTI markets
an extensive line of large core side and end emitting
fiber for Industrial, architectural, commercial
and landscaping applications. |
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Modified
Products FTI will create
your product solution using a standard configuration
from our base designs. The result is a product made
to your specification, in the shortest time, at
the lowest cost. |
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Custom
Products We engineer
and manufacture sophisticated, high tolerance custom
fiber optic parts to customer specifiactions including
military, commercial, industrial and medical OEM
applications. |
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Accessories
FTI offers a complete range
of accessories to expand standard product versatility. |
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POF
Patch Cords After market
replacements for latched, unlatched, and bulkhead
Agilent type connectors in single or duplex configurations. |
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Machine vision Lighting FTI backlights are preferred for Machine vision lighting applications because the light guide is made from glass fibers. This feature optimizes the flexibility of the bundle and maximizes temperature resistance when coupled to high output Pulsed Xenon strobes, a common application in high speed Machine Vision lighting applications.
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Fiber
Drawing FTI is the largest
borosilicate fiber producing company in North America.
Our volume provides customers with distinct process
and cost advantages. |
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Rod
& Taper Drawing FTI
uses a straight line draw tower to manufacture optical
rod, multirod, and image conduit producing rod diameters
from .060 (1.5mm) to 1" (25mm) in diameter,
in continuous lengths up to 92" (2.34M). |
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End
Termination The method
used to terminate a fiber optic component dictates
the final quality of that part. FTI use five different
termination methods: General Epoxy, Mechanical,
Fusing, Swaging and Hot Knife. |
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Prototyping
FTI's prototyping service
is unmatched in the industry. No other company offers
consistent turn-around on first article, prototype
or concept build products. |
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O&M
Manuals Instruction
sheets, technical product data and complete manuals
are available 24/7 from the FTI site. |
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Cable
Repair We offer repair
service for single and bifurcated cables, retractors,
surgical headlights, cogen cables, fiber scope light
guides, all types of industrial light guides (ring
lights, light lines, back lights, etc), quartz light
guides, and custom designs. |
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Fiber
Types Optical fibers
are commonly produced from glass, plastic and synthetically
fused silica, often called silica or quartz fiber.
Each type has its own advantages and disadvantages. |
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Fiber
Lengths & Diameters Bundles
up to 60 feet in length (18M). NA of .25, .44, .55,
or .66 in active diameters you specify. |
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Numerical
Aperature (N.A.) The
numerical aperature defines the maximum acceptance
angle to admit and transmit light by a fiber. |
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Operating
Temperature Typical
borosilicate glass can withstand temperatures up
to 900°F before deterioration begins. |
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Transmission
Loss As visible light
travels through fiber, shorter wavelengths attenuate,
turning the output greenish yellow. Typical loss
in borosilicate glass is .002% per inch. |
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Fiber
Skew Fiber skew can
result in fibers that have been polished on a bias
(Non-Perpendicular) which changes the light emitting
angle of the output. |
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Uniformity
Uniformity is important for robust, accurate, repeatable
vision applications. |
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Light
Source Lamp Characteristics Setting
the lamp at the correct distance from the input,
and choosing the right fiber, are key to maximizing
energy transfer and/or optimizing uniformity. |
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Sheathing
Types Sheathing
has three core values for use in fiberoptic design:
To protect the fiber; To keep ambient or stray light
from creating signal noise (for sensor applications)
and to improve handling of the part. |
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Randomization
A bit of a misnomer, randomization,
as it relates to fiberoptics, is actually a purposeful
(not random) placement of fiber within a ferrule. |
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Lamp
Life Calculator Use
this reference to help plan your maintenance and
get the most from your lightsource. |
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Fiber
Count Calculator Sometimes
it's important to know how many fibers exist in
a bundle. |
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Acceptance
Angle Calculator Use
this calculator to identify the Acceptance Angle
of any given Numerical Aperature. |
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NA
Caculator You can use
this calculator to identify the numerical aperature
and the acceptance angle of any glass combination. |
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Temperature
Conversion Calculator Convert
Farenheit, Clecisu and Kelvin. Enter a value in
any of the boxes, and the corresponding equivalents
will be displayed. |
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Measuring
Intensity When an application
requires an illumination source, a lighting designer
working with the application engineer can provide
an optimal solution if the application’s attributes
are described in light intensity and uniformity
values at the field of interest. |
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