The Competitive Polarization-Maintaining (PM) Fibre Market is Expected to Grow Over the Next Three Years at a Rate Approaching 11%
Polarization maintaining (PM) optical fibre provides the means to minimize noise and improve the optical performance of optical systems in a variety of market applications. PM fibre enables a $738 million value-added component market (2018) with the actual value for the PM fibre component representing about 8% of the total value-added market.
The PM fibre market brakes down into five segments.
- Fibre Optic Gyroscopes (FOG)
- Test and Measurement
- Lasers
- Telecommunication Components
- Sensor - Non-Gyro
There are several identified PM fibre suppliers with the leaders having a significant share of the government, military and aerospace markets focusing on fibre optic gyroscopes (FOG).
There are three primary PM fibre designs:
- Bow-tie
- Panda
- Elliptical cladding
Bow-tie and Panda are used more widely.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Market Projections
- Key PM Fiber Customers
- Competitive Products
- Competitive Evaluation
- Polarization Maintaining Fiber Technology
- Manufacturing Issues
- Barriers
- Summary
- Contact
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Executive Summary
Before you put your project out for bid or invest in new PM fibre product development, it pays to get the whole picture. This new PM Fibre Market report was written by an analyst with three decades of fibre market experience and a finger on the market's pulse today.
Fibre optic gyroscopes (FOGs) make up the largest segment of the PM fibre market. FOGs are critical components in some navigation systems and have the government, military, aerospace, and other applications. If you and your organization are involved in the FOG market or any other PM market segment, you can benefit from the information in this report.
The five segments that make up this market and the applications within each market segments are:
- Fibre Optic Gyroscopes (FOGs)
- Gyro PM fibre
- Coupler
- Test and Measurement
- Circulator
- In-line polarizer
- Isolator
- Coupler
- Lasers
- Laser rare earth doped PM fibre
- Isolator
- Coupler
- Telecommunications Components
- Circulator
- In-line polarizer
- Isolator
- Coupler
- Sensor - Non-Gyro
- Isolator
- Coupler
- In-line polarizer
- Sensor - non-gyro PM fibre
SEVEN KEY COMPONENTS OF THIS REPORT
- The projected size of the PM fibre market by segment through 2021 in dollars and kilometres
- Size in dollars and kilometres of current (2018) PM fibre market segments by application
- Impact of PM fibre on value-added products market 12 times the value of the PM fibre market alone
- Typical PM fibre pricing and usage per application in meters
- Competitive evaluation of eight key PM fibre manufacturers: Corning, Fibrecore, Fujikura, iXblue, Nufern, OFS, Thorlabs and Verrillon
- The PM fibre product application categories for 36 key customers
- Barriers to market entry
This report answers your questions: Which markets dominate in dollars and kilometres of fibre? Which suppliers have the biggest share of the PM fibre markets? How do those suppliers compare to each other in terms of PM fibre products sold, distinct manufacturing capabilities, and performance of products in specific uses? Which markets have the biggest barriers to entry, and why?
Companies Mentioned
- AC Photonics
- Advanced Fiber Resources
- AFL Agiltron
- AFW Technologies
- Agiltron
- AiDi
- Chiral Photonics
- Ciena
- Coherent
- Convergent Photonics
- Corning
- Diamond
- DK Photonics
- Draper Laboratory
- Evanescent Photonics
- Fibercore
- Finisar
- Fujikura
- General Photonics
- Gould
- Honeywell
- IPG Photonics
- iXblue
- Laserglow
- Lawrence Livermore
- Lightcomm
- Lightel Photonics
- Lincoln
- Lockheed Martin
- Luna Technologies
- Melles Griot
- Micro-Optics
- MIT
- Molex
- NEDAERO
- Northrup Grumman
- Nufern
- OFS Optical
- Op-Link
- Optosun
- Optosun Technology
- OZ Optics
- Phoenix Photonix
- PhotonTec
- Saab
- Senko
- Sepectra Physica
- Summitomo
- Thorlabs
- Timbercon
- Topica Photonics
- Verrillion
