Fiber for energy,
A space-made, radiation-hardened fiber, StarFiber™️ for fiber lasers in future fusion systems, nuclear sensor fibers, and powers sustained operations beyond Earth.
on earth and beyond
Fiber for energy,
Built for extreme energy systems
StarFiber is designed for organizations where optical performance is mission-critical and failure is expensive.
Inertial fusion systems
Beam delivery, coherent combining, and high-power gain media for laser fusion developers.
Advanced nuclear systems
Diagnostics and distributed sensing in radiation-exposed or hard-to-access infrastructure.
Directed energy and high-energy lasers
StarFiber's mid-infrared (mid-IR) transmission and signal quality make it well suited to defense systems where range and reliability are decisive, including high-energy laser systems, directed infrared countermeasures, mid-IR jamming, and LiDAR.
Research and test facilities
Advanced optical infrastructure for validating new fusion approaches, materials, and reactor designs.
Built for nuclear’s next era
Nuclear energy is advancing on several fronts at once. Today's fission reactors, and the facilities that store their waste, need constant monitoring in conditions that punish ordinary equipment. Laser-based fusion is emerging as one of the most promising paths to clean, abundant power, and it runs on light pushed to its limits. And as operators build a lasting presence beyond Earth, nuclear power is becoming the way to sustain it.
StarFiber is built for all three. Its metal-fluoride glass composition holds up to radiation better than standard silica fiber, and because it's made purer and more uniform than fiber can be on Earth, it can sense inside reactors here and in orbit and carry the high-power light that next-generation fusion demands.
Why fusion needs better fiber
StarFiber connects microgravity manufacturing to terrestrial infrastructure markets.
Preserve signal power
Lower attenuation keeps more optical energy in the beam path, where every fraction of delivered power affects driver efficiency and target performance.
Handle higher intensity
Cleaner, more uniform material reduces scattering and helps push back the nonlinear limits that cap how much power a single fiber can carry.
Enable beam combining
Consistent fiber geometry supports the phase control needed to coherently combine many channels into one high-energy beam.
Stronger gain fiber
On Earth, high dopant concentrations cause rare-earth ions to clump and lose efficiency. Microgravity keeps them evenly distributed, so the glass can incorporate more dopant and deliver the higher optical gain that fiber laser amplifiers rely on.
Build the future of fusion with StarFiber™️
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