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Specialty Optical Fiber Industry Veteran Joins Fiberguide Industries

(Stirling, NJ - 28 August 2008)

Charles (“Charlie”) Harrington, previously of American Medical Systems Innovation Center (formerly InnovaQuartz, Inc.),  Phoenix, Arizona, a manufacturer of minimally-invasive medical devices, including medical lasers and advanced fiber-optic delivery devices and hard clad multimode optical fibers,  has joined Fiberguide’s New Jersey engineering department.

Ted Rich, President of Fiberguide states “we are excited to have Charlie join our New Jersey production and engineering staff, where he will utilize his more than (30) years of engineering skills in process control and project management of specialty optical fiber manufacturing, to keep Fiberguide at the forefront of supplying the market with the highest quality fiber”.

Charlie began his career in Specialty Optical Fibers at the former Galite Inc, a division of Galileo Electro-Optics in Wallingford, Connecticut, which subsequently became Pirelli Optical Fibers.  Charlie continued his career at American Fiber Optics, Spectran, Quartzguide, PolymicroTechnologies, and Meteor Optics. Charlie’s experience and expertise encompasses the design, installation and operation of optical fiber draw towers, preform manufacturing and all ancillary instrumentation and processes

About Fiberguide

Fiberguide has been supporting the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) worldwide in taking their concepts and ideas to market since 1977 with a comprehensive line of standard and custom high optical transmission multimode, single mode and graded index optical fibers from the UV (180nm) to IR (2.7 microns), and temperature ranges from -269ºC to +700ºC (through the application of various buffer materials).  Our staff of engineers, technical sales professionals and experienced production team unites in developing product specific to individual applications.  We design and engineer assemblies using not only our own pure silica core/silica clad, silica core/plastic clad fibers, but borosilicate glass fiber, ESKA™ plastic optical fiber, fluoride fiber, chalcogenide fiber, erbium-doped fiber and polarization maintaining fiber as well, exhibiting numerical apertures (N.A.’s) from 0.12 (full acceptance angle 14o) to 0.66 (full acceptance angle 82o), with the widest range of custom and standard endfittings/connectors and outer jackets to tailor a product to technical and economic requisites.
Fiberguide is also active in the design and manufacture of ultra precision high density 2D arrays (patents issued), V-Groove arrays designed for optical switches, WDM/DWDM and arrayed active devices; cables for SERCOS digital interface and VersaLink industrial automation; and reflection/ backscattering probes for measuring specular or diffuse reflection from a surface.  Fiberguide is FDA registered as a Contract Manufacturer and Custom Device Manufacturer.   

Fiberguide Industries, Inc. is a privately held company with a corporate and optical fiber manufacturing facilities located in Stirling, New Jersey, and a manufacturing/assembly facility in Caldwell, Idaho.  For additional information please contact Fiberguide Corporate direct on 908-647-6601 or at info@fiberguide.com.  Please visit us at www.fiberguide.com.
 

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