Commercial & Defense
In addition to coated optics, optical assemblies, and commercial lasers, JDSU provides customized optical solutions for applications across a wide range of applications for industry OEMs as well as for government and defense contractors.
JDSU manufactures a variety of lasers that are used in the bio-detection market. For early detection of bio-agents, JDSU offers unique passively Q-switched UV lasers that stimulate the native fluorescence of bio-agents. JDSU red helium-neon gas lasers or green diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) lasers can be used to cause dye fluorescence and positively identify agents.
JDSU lasers used for biotechnology instrumentation applications include argon-ion and helium-neon gas lasers and frequency-converted CW and pulsed DPSS lasers. These products are used in the biotechnology industry for applications such as DNA sequencing, flow cytometry, and hematology. In addition, JDSU provides a complete line of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared optical filters, components, and sub-assemblies found in a range of photonics instruments from medical analyzers to spectrometers. JDSU photonic power products offer a means of ensuring isolated power to drive electronic devices attached to or implanted in the human body and a safe and flexible way of interrogating these devices and collecting measurement data.
Laser Products
Custom Optics Products
Photovoltaic Products
JDSU precision optical filters are a critical component in many earth observation satellites, helping scientists to predict the weather and to detect trends in the Earth's atmosphere. The Company's contributions to high technology defense programs include optics for guidance systems, components for high energy laser systems, infrared night vision systems, secure optical communications, and isolated power solutions for defense and security systems.
Optical Communications Products
Custom Optics Products
Photovoltaic Products
JDSU photonic power products provide cost and performance advantages for metering and the protection of high-voltage networks. Photonic power, when used in conjunction with the JDSU Optically Powered Data Link, provides an alternative to the isolated instrument-transformer approach for measurements of current. This alternative is more reliable and environmentally safer and offers significant savings in cost and weight.
JDSU offers a range of advanced lighting components. These filters offer precise spectral positioning to ensure color consistency and performance.
JDSU manufactures a variety of lasers that are used in the graphics and imaging market. For photo-finishing, JDSU offers both air-cooled argon-ion lasers and diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers, each featuring world-class performance and reliability. Lasers for pre-press include JDSU fiber lasers and industry-leading JDSU infrared industrial laser diodes.
Photonic power solutions deliver power to sensors for industrial monitoring applications and for test and measurement applications. These solutions provide isolated power over a noise immune, spark-free, non-conductive optical fiber. Sensor applications that can benefit from photonic power technology include oil and mining exploration and EMI test and measurement.
Current materials processing applications using lasers include various precision marking processes and micromachining activities such as bending of micro-mechanical components, cutting of 1- to 2-mil stainless steel parts, and selective soldering. Fiber lasers, diode-pumped solid-state lasers, and IR laser diodes from JDSU meet these demanding requirements.
JDSU offers several lasers that address micromachining markets including the Industrial Fiber Laser and DualChip, PowerChip, and MicroChip solid-state lasers. These lasers are air-cooled and keep manufacturing floor space and utility requirements to a minimum.
Manufacturers continue to push for direct part marking to solve their quality tracking and identification processes. As parts continue to miniaturize, the need for more precise and less intrusive marking processes becomes critical. The JDSU Fiber Laser Marking System is ideal for this market.
Using short pulses from a laser and detecting the reflected light from an optical pulse of an object, a very accurate distance measurement can be established by measuring the time between the laser pulse and the reflected light. By adding scanning capabilities to a system, a complete 3D scene acquisition and reconstruction is possible. 3D data acquisition can be used in risk and damage assessment as well as security planning. Range finding is also used for border control and airborne surveillance. CW DPSS lasers in the IR are used for fiberoptic sensing. We offer fiber coupled versions of our lasers to enable easy coupling to the fiber sensors.
Semiconductor laser diodes used to optically pump the solid-state laser gain media have extremely long lifetimes, are efficient enough to dramatically reduce the heat in the laser gain media, and offer excellent output spatial profiles for better optical wavelength conversion. Because of their excellent reliability, laser diodes from JDSU are ideally suited for use in solid-state laser and fiber-laser pumping.
JDSU is at the forefront of laser development for precision semiconductor inspection with ultra-stable single-frequency continuous-wave (CW) and Quasi-CW systems. These lasers are ideal for the high-speed wafer inspection and provide manufacturers with the ability to detect nanometer-scale defects and contamination.
Semiconductor and microelectronic manufactures are continually improving chip and circuit board technology to create smaller, faster, and more powerful devices at less cost. Lasers offer precision electronic materials processing capabilities that enable manufacturers to reduce the package size and increase the component density of these products. Smaller circuit geometries require lasers with ever-shorter wavelengths, higher beam quality, and higher-stability optical inspection sources. JDSU has a broad range of lasers for semiconductor-materials processing including air-cooled argon-ion and helium-neon gas lasers, solid-state continuous-wave (CW) lasers, and Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers.
Lasers used in stereolithography, a process that enables the rapid creation of three-dimensional objects from CAD drawings, require excellent beam quality and power stability. JDSU offers high-pulse repetition-rate Q-switched or mode-locked UV lasers to create precision prototypes from a CAD model. Several power levels are available to enable single or multi-beam processing.
