G-SPACE, Inc. brings exclusively to the US market a suite of Heavy Metal Fluoride (ZBLAN, InF3, etc.) from our French partner Le Verre Fluoré. These products have the following unique properties: 

• superior transmittance in the 0.2 micrometers in the UV to 7 micrometers in the IR – virtually all organic compounds are active over this range, more so in the region of this spectrum where fluoride fibers and glasses have the ability to “fine tune” best
• low refractive index (n=1.50) – this is important because the lower the refractive index the faster light/information travels through that material
• low dispersion: that means that most of the signal transmitted through these fibers is recovered at the other end, including over long distances. The pulses of information are kept sharp, reducing signal degradation. 
• low and negative temperature dependence of refractive index (dn/dT) – one other major drawback of silica for example is that for every degree it is heated the wavelength will shift. That’s just not the case for fluoride. 

The above properties position fluoride products as enablers in emerging sensing applications due to their unmatched supercontinuum performance as well as in signal transmission due to their broadband and low latency. Please contact us at sales(at)g-space.com for your standard or custom needs.