Fiber Optic Cable Feedthrough and Hermetic Sealing for Aerospace Environment

LiteCom, Inc.

Canoga Park, CA

Fiber optic sealing material that provides cryogenic hermetic sealing up to 10 -11 cc/sec Helium leak rate in both feedthroughs and connectors

• Designed and developed feedthroughs which demonstrated 10-11cc/sec helium leak rate at temperatures from -196^oC to +200^oC
• Successfully used in vibration, thermal shock, salt spray, humidity, mechanical shock, neutron fluence radiation, gamma radiation, and ion radiation tests
• Created great interest in the commercial and military underwater applications for hermetic seals

• Hermetic sealing material development for fiber optic transmission between harsh environments such as refineries, nuclear power plants, aircraft, mines, security systems, petrochemical processing, ships, and corrosive environments
• Commercial sales - more than $1M
• Providing 5 jobs at LiteCom and its suppliers

• Provided hermetically sealed underwater connectors for use with Navy submarines, submersibles, and remotely operated vehicles
• Provided fiber optic hermetic sealed connectors for Sandia Laboratory
• Potential for Space Station application

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