Precision Fiber Shaping And Polishing For Optical Sensors

Medical, aerospace, and industrial optical sensors incorporate lightguides with uniquely shaped fiber tips. KrellTech’s modular equipment provides precision shaping and polishing for bare fibers as well as connectors, waveguides and arrays. Featuring polishing workholders with independent suspension and interferometric alignment technology, our systems process fragile components while integrated real-time inspection verifies geometry without refixturing. Scale your sensor manufacturing seamlessly from R&D to full production.

Watch our latest demonstration of our fiber shaping capabilities producing a 110° Chisel on a 600µm Fiber. The featured KrellTech NOVA polishing system is configured with an SV10 Surface Inspection, SV9 Profile View Videoscope, Variable Angle Bare Fiber Workholder (NV-VBF), and an Orbit Coning Module (NV-CONE). This system can be scaled up to 4 polishing positions simultaneously.