Piezo Syteme Jena

In 1999 piezosystem jena was introduced as one of the first companies in the world to provide fiber optic switches for multiplexing of optical signals. Since then piezosystem jena has expanded its line to a variety of fiber switches for different types of fibers and different numbers of channels.
Standard configurations are switches from 1 by 1 up to 1 by 9 channels. Standard fiber diameters are 50 to  600 microns. All kinds of connectors can be used. By utilizing piezoelectric actuators technology, piezosystem jena can guarantee a very high accuracy in positioning of optical fibers.

piezosystem jena developed a unique principal of fiber surface coupling. The major advantage of this principal is the wavelength independence of our switches due to the fact that it is not necessary to have any optical components inside of it.
The high accuracy of positioning of the piezoelectric actuators guarantees a light transmission of >80% with a typical switching time of <3ms. Fiber switches with optical components, like lenses or prisms, will always result in a wavelength-dependent limitation.
The small size of the switching box and the easy control using TTL signals make these fiber optic switches ideally suited for use as components of spectrometers or other metrology devices. Switches with more than 100 output channels can be easily achieved by cascading of the switching modules. Multiplexers from piezosystem jena are distributed under the brand name "optojena".

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