Linden Photonics, Inc specializes in the development of innovative, high performance yet cost effective packaging solutions. By incorporating its proprietary, ruggedized optical cable technology, the firm can deliver cost effective packaging solutions that are hermetic, radhard and chemically inert. The company's liquid crystal polymer (LCP) buffers. LCP jacketed optical fiber cable has potential in the area of packaging for electro-optic devices. One of the major challenges facing the packaging engineer is that of creating the hermetic seal around the optical input and output ports. LCPs have excellent barrier properties, are easily molded with great precision, and being thermo plastic, can be bonded with relative ease. It is therefore possible to use LCP both for the hermetic packaging and the fiber jacket. This monolithic approach has the advantage that no special preparation of the fiber is required. Expensive metallized pigtails can be replaced by short lengths of LCP jacketed fiber which are robust and easy to handle. Linden has introduced innovative, high-quality optical cable products for demanding torpedo guidance, communication buoys, and hybrid remotely operated vehicles (HROV). The firm's products provide quasi-hermetic, radiation resistant packages for the military and commercial telecommunications and sensor markets.
