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CASIX Offers Complete Line of Glass Ferrules, Alignment Sleeves, and Fiber Optic Substrates.


FUZHOU, China -- CASIX, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high quality crystal and precision optics products, offers a complete line of ultra high quality precision glass ferrules and alignment sleeves and clear fused quartz fused quartz
n.
See quartz glass.
 glass substrates and components for fiber optic applications. Manufactured in partnership with VitroCom, these ferrules and substrates are made to customer specifications utilizing proprietary technology and processes, with expertise in manufacturing non-circular and irregular configurations.

Fiber optic ferrules are offered in a variety of inner diameter configurations to suit customer requirements with tolerances of +/-0.001mm and better. Available lead-in configurations include blown, acid etched, or drilled countersink, or any combination. The variety of standard and custom lead-ins enables easy-to-use and reliable terminations. Examples of available bore configurations include single, double, oval, square, triple, four and six bore, figure 8, and double figure 8 bore.

Alignment sleeves are precision drawn products made to a customer's specification in various types of borosilicate glasses (e.g., N5IA and 33 expansion), soda lime soda lime
n.
A mixture of calcium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide used to absorb carbon dioxide in rebreathing apparatus and in anesthesia circuits.
, and clear fused quartz. The UV transmission characteristics of clear fused quartz glass enable the use of UV curable cur·a·ble
adj.
Capable of being cured or healed.
 epoxies.

Fiber optic substrates are precision drawn to customer specifications from clear fused quartz for use in fiber optic applications such as fused couplers and component packaging. VitroCom's proprietary process produces high strength, high reliability, precision substrates. They can be manufactured in various configurations to fit almost any drawing or specifications. Configurations include C, U, V and square channel, and D, rectangle, grooved rectangle, and multi-grooved rectangle rod.

About VitroCom, a division of Fabrinet

VitroCom, Mountain Lakes, N.J., has fabricated custom designed and standard precision glass products and solutions for the fiber optic, laser, medical, optoelectronic, industrial, laboratory and scientific, and metal casting Metal casting

A metal-forming process whereby molten metal is poured into a cavity or mold and, when cooled, solidifies and takes on the characteristic shape of the mold.
 markets for over 35 years using state-of-the-art equipment and proprietary processes. Products include ferrules and alignment sleeves, fiber optic substrates and packaging components, precision bore tubing, custom and standard tubing in both round and non-circular configurations, Microcells, and Vitrotubes. For more information contact Sue Christiansen at 973-402-1443, e-mail sales@vitrocom.com or visit the VitroCom website at www.vitrocom.com.

About CASIX, Inc., a Fabrinet Company

CASIX, located in Fuzhou, was founded in 1992 as one of the foremost crystal growers in the world. Today it is widely recognized as a world leader in the manufacture of high quality crystal and precision optics products. CASIX is committed to providing the highest quality crystal and precision optics products for communications, medical, imaging, and semiconductor markets at extremely competitive prices. CASIX's crystal products include laser crystals, nonlinear crystals, birefringent An optical property of a material that causes the polarizations of light to travel at different speeds. See dispersion.  crystals, and diode pumped microchip (DPM (Documents Per Minute) The number of paper documents that can be processed in one minute. ) crystal assemblies for commercial laser systems, instrument systems, and diode pumped solid state (DPSS DPSS Diode-Pumped Solid-State (laser)
DPSS Department of Public Social Services
DPSS Distributed-Parallel Storage System
DPSS Datapath Synthesis System
DPSS Data Processing Subsystem
DPSS Digital Precision Strike Suite
) laser module applications. The company's precision optics capabilities include custom optics for market applications in DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 optical pickups, surveying instruments Surveying instruments

Instruments used in surveying operations to measure vertical angles, horizontal angles, and distance. Such devices were originally mechanical only, but technological advances led to mechanical-optical devices, optical-electronic devices,
, instrumentation, semiconductor equipment, medical instruments, and telecom optical systems, plus display optics with advanced optical performance for projection displays and liquid crystal display liquid crystal display (LCD)

Optoelectronic device used in displays for watches, calculators, notebook computers, and other electronic devices. Current passed through specific portions of the liquid crystal solution causes the crystals to align, blocking the passage of light.
 (LCD) projection applications. CASIX is ISO (1) See ISO speed.

(2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI.
 9001 certified. For more information contact CASIX at marketing@casix.com, +(86) 591 83620115, +(86) 591 83627334, +1 613 270 0518, or visit the CASIX website at www.casix.com.

Fabrinet (www.fabrinet.com) is a recognized world leader in providing engineering and manufacturing services in complex optical, electrical, and precision electro-mechanical devices.
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