Fibre Photonics Ltd

Incorporated in October 2006, Fibre Photonics specialise in the development and manufacture of fibre optic materials, cables and probes for light delivery, sensing and spectroscopy. Its products and services are used specifically in space, military/avionic, food & drink, and finally analytical chemistry applications. The latter includes both the development and the production of pharmaceuticals, agrichemicals, fine chemicals, petrochemicals and bio-fuels. Fibre Photonics provide a range of ATR mid-infrared fibre optic immersion probes as a real-time in situ reaction monitoring solution within a laboratory and production environment. Each probe can be coupled to an FTIR spectrometer by means of SMA connectors and has been designed to withstand the ever changing requirements of a development laboratory, especially where high through-put or scale up reactions monitoring are required. Several key functional groups can be investigated using the broad spectral range of one single mid infrared immersion probe, including carbonyl, unsaturated hydrocarbon, amine and alkyl halide containing compounds. Each probe offers a real-time insight into common reactions used in the development of API’s, biofuels, fine and bulk chemicals including addition, substitution and condensation reactions as well as oxidation and reduction reactions. The close monitoring of the reactivity results in faster scale-up and reaction optimisation resulting in R&D time being saved in the laboratory.