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MicroTethers that power and connect airborne platforms.
MicroTethers for drones and aerostats
Servicing the ever-expanding security industry, Linden Photonics offers a line of MicroTethers. Typically, small gauge copper and fiber elements are enclosed in a lightweight cable designed to provide power and communications to airborne drones or aerostats.
Linden can customize your size, weight and strength — from high-strength designs intended to anchor large aerostats in high winds to extremely thin tethers designed for the smallest of drones. Our expertise in low density cable jacketing is ideal for this environment: compact and rugged, flexible and strong.
For fly-by-fiber drones, our precision wound packs keep a secure, non-jammable link where wireless can be hacked or jammed.
Cross-reference: compare LPI cables against Gore equivalents. LPI – Gore cross reference
Zenith Aerotech tethered drone, flying on a Linden tetherRecommended for drones & aerostats
Cables engineers specify here
A starting point — most projects end up with a configured or custom variant.
MicroTethers
Small-gauge copper and fiber in a lightweight tether, from 10.4 g/m designs for the smallest drones to 13,000 lbs work-load anchors for aerostats.
Precision wound spools
Fiber packs for subsea munitions and fly-by-fiber drones: a secure, non-jammable two-way link, with packs delivered up to 30 km long.
Hybrid cables
Copper and fiber integrated in a lightweight design: buoyant options, thin-wall insulation, Vectran strength members and 300 V, 600 V and 1,000 V ratings.
Other markets
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Have an application in mind?
Tell us what the cable has to do — the environment, the load, the length — and our engineers will recommend a catalog cable or design one for you. Short runs from 300 m.