News — Fiber

The Power of Collimation II: Bullets, Balls & Skipping Stones

2100nm AccuFlex Accumax AccuTrac ACMI laser fiber calculase dornier EndoBeam Fiber Flexiva high power fiber optics Holmium Fiber Holmium Laser holmium laser fiber karl storz Laser laser fiber Laser Lithotripsy Lasersafe litho laser Lumenis medilase medilase H20 microlenses optical fiber Optifiber ProFlex ProFlex LLF ProGlide ProGuard quanta laser richard wolf scope safe Scopesafe Slimline stonelight SureFlex tapered fibers TracTip Trimedyne yellowstone

The Power of Collimation II: Bullets, Balls & Skipping Stones

110% power transmission from a 273 micrometer core holmium laser fiber is not fantasy. We see it every day. Learn how.

 

Read more →


Smooth Passage™ Holmium Fiber Tips on ProFlex™ LLF

2100nm AccuFlex Accumax AccuTrac ACMI laser fiber calculase chips Clean cut cutting fiber dornier Duotome EndoBeam Fiber Flexiva fused silica GreenLight high power fiber optics Holmium Fiber Holmium Laser holmium laser fiber karl storz KTP Laser Laser laser fiber Laser Lithotripsy laser machining Lasersafe litho laser Lumenis medilase medilase H20 micromachining MoXy OmniPulse optical fiber Optifiber ProFlex ProFlex LLF ProGlide ProGuard Prostate Surgery quanta laser richard wolf scope safe Scopesafe SideLite Slimline stonelight SureFlex Thulium thulium laser thulium laser fiber TracTip Trimedyne yellowstone

Smooth Passage™ Holmium Fiber Tips on ProFlex™ LLF

In the course of studying other manufacturers' holmium laser fibers we sometimes observe surprising differences. In this case, we knew that our tips were different -- heck, we gave them a special name -- but  just how much difference they made was the surprise.      The two fibers in the photo are "1000 micron", meaning they have either a 910 μm or 940 μm core inside a 1 mm diameter glass cladding. The upper one was made by the manufacturer of the laser upon which the two fibers were used and the lower one is our Smooth Passage™ Tip on ProFlex™ LLF. Both fibers...

Read more →


IQ honored as Best Precision Fused Silica Component Manufacturer (2016)

angled union capillary chromatography contract manufacturing Fiber fixing a broken column fused fiber arrays fused quartz fused silica gas chromatography glass union glass y splitter high power fiber optics laser machining microlenses micromachining optical fiber Pres2fit press2fit Pressfit presstight ProFlex protypes quartz union tapered fibers

IQ honored as Best Precision Fused Silica Component Manufacturer (2016)

  InnovaQuartz pioneered the use of carbon dioxide lasers for manipulating and machining fused quartz and fused silica glasses under computer control and microscopic imaging way back in 1991 when our founder, Stephen Griffin, gambled that his ideas would actually work and built the first laser system in his 80 square foot laundry room. Our first sale was 6 months after the first dollar was spent and we sold more than $1,000,000 in machined fused quartz and modified optical fibers in the first twelve months of operation.  We have stayed well ahead of all competitors who tried to copy our...

Read more →


“All Holmium Laser Fibers are the Same, Right?” Part 6: Minding the Gap

2100nm ACMI laser fiber calculase EndoBeam Fiber Flexiva Holmium Fiber Holmium Laser holmium laser fiber karl storz Laser laser fiber Laser Lithotripsy Lasersafe litho laser Lumenis medilase medilase H20 OmniPulse Optifiber ProFlex ProFlex LLF quanta laser Scopesafe Slimline stonelight SureFlex Thulium thulium laser thulium laser fiber Trimedyne yellowstone

“All Holmium Laser Fibers are the Same, Right?” Part 6: Minding the Gap

  FIGURE 1: Fiber Sleeved with Quartz Ferrule The gap (FIG. 1) between the fiber and the quartz ferrule is a fundamental problem of quartz sleeved fibers because that gap harbors volatile and non-volatile contaminants from production or cleaning. These contaminants are inevitably vaporized and deposit on the blast shield or focusing optic or both. In extreme cases, thermal expansion of materials within the gap can fracture the fiber or the quartz sleeve.   Fusing the fiber within the bore of the quartz ferrule eliminates the gap, but new issues arise from fusion. Centricity is typically worst case after fusion...

Read more →


All Holmium Laser Fibers are the Same, Right? Part 3: Pulsar HPC Introduction

AccuFlex AccuTrac ACMI laser fiber calculase EndoBeam Fiber Flexiva Holmium Fiber Holmium Laser holmium laser fiber karl storz laser fiber Laser Lithotripsy Lasersafe litho laser medilase medilase H20 OmniPulse Optifiber ProFlex ProFlex LLF ProGlide quanta laser richard wolf Scopesafe SideLite Slimline stonelight SureFlex thulium laser Trimedyne yellowstone

All Holmium Laser Fibers are the Same, Right? Part 3: Pulsar HPC Introduction

Before updating this entry, a reader asked a question about a statement I'd made about the flexibility of the Boston Scientific holmium fibers AccuMax™ and Flexiva™ that I answered in the updated Part 2 entry. I am leaving my answer to that question in this entry, for congruity. Pardon the redundancy. Q: ‘How do you know Boston’s AccuMax™ and Flexiva™ are stiffer than ProFlex 200 if, as you say, you’ve never seen one of Boston’s fibers?’ A: Updated answer -- we measured the glass OD of the Boston fibers and, as expected, it is 290 microns (242 microns x 1.2 CCDR). This...

Read more →