Technica Optical Components, LLC

Technica is a leading developer, manufacturer, and provider of premium quality Fiber Bragg Gratings, FBG sensing arrays and cables, FBG sensors, and FBG tools and accessories. Femto Sensing International (FSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Technica, is a leading developer, manufacturer, and provider of premium quality Optical Sensing Interrogators for monitoring FBG Sensors.

The company’s state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment includes excimer and femtosecond lasers, ultimate precision assembly and measurement stations and instruments, state-of-the-art processes for touch-free strip and recoat technologies for various fiber coating materials, and through-the-coating FBG writing technology. Technica manufactures FBGs in singlemode fibers with acrylate, polyimide, Copper, Aluminum, and Gold coatings, with or without doping, with or without polarization control, with FBG Center Wavelength specifications from 800nm to 1650nm, Bandwidths from 0.03nm to 100nm, Reflectivity from 0.2% to 99.9%, high and ultra-high SLSR, FBG physical lengths from 250um to 50mm, and adjacent FBG spacing (in arrays) from 0.5mm to kilometers. Technica offers standard to ultra-high strain resistant FBGs as well as standard to extreme temperature rated FBGs, on the low-temperature side to -270C and on the high-temperature side to +1,000C. Sensors protection includes Synthetic Silica, Fiber Braid, PTFE/Teflon, GFRP, PEEK, Ceramic, Steel, Inconel, and others.

Technica also offers premium grade Packaged FBGs and FBG Sensors including Athermal FBGs (T95), Strain and Temperature FBG Sensing Cables (T100s), and Packaged Sensors to measure Strain (T200s), Acceleration (T300s), Displacement (T400s), Tilt/Angle (T500s), Torque (T290), Pressure (T600s), Temperature (T800s), and a range of OEM and Special Purpose Sensors.

Under its FSI brand, Technica manufactures and provides ultimate precision, accuracy, repeatability and reliability FBG Interrogators, and a growing family of budget FBG Interrogators.

FSI’s FAZ Technology Interrogators are the established leader for applications where ultimate performance and reliability are required. The platform is based on more than 10 years of focused optical sensing instrument technology development by a team of experts in this field, with 18 product and technology patents including the world’s most precise absolute wavelength calibration system. FSI’s MX Series 40nm scanning range solid state tunable laser based budget Interrogators include the M1, M2, M4, M8, M16, M24, and M32 models, with prices starting at $3,300 USD. FSI’s SX Series 80nm scanning range interrogators include the S1, S4, S4D, S8D, S16, and S16PC. FSI’s New WX Series 160nm scanning range Interrogators include the W4, W8, and W16 models. All FSI interrogators include the Optical Sensing Software, free of charge.

Technica’s products are widely used in aerospace, marine and railways applications, in energy generation, storage and transport, in civil and geotechnical engineering, in security, medical, and industrial applications.

Our company’s product and technology portfolio is expanding. We welcome you to contact us with your specific FBG based needs, opportunities and challenges.

Technica is a US company headquartered in Atlanta, USA, with Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Centers in USA, Sweden, Canada, and China.

For more information please contact us at info@technicasa.com,
call us at 1-404-326-3469, or visit us at www.technicasa.com