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The most common fiber optic epoxy packaging is premeasured two-part packs. These take the precise handling out of your hands and decrease the time and amount of material you handle.
This pack also increases your process control and usually has a simple divider with...
Start with a good print job – Use the 3D printer’s smallest layer height (highest resolution). On most printers, this is 0.1mm or less. This is especially important for the outermost layer. Sanding and polishing will remove some material from the surface, which...
QUESTION: What lapping films are available with PSA (Pressure Sensitive Adhesive) back? Does that vary by size, disk, sheets rolls etc.?
ANSWER:
Abrasive minerals are available in Alumina Oxide, Silicon Carbide, or Diamond. Lapping films are available of...
To measure Return Loss, some means of isolating the connector part of the reflected signal is required: a mandrel wrap, index matching gel, or Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR).
A mandrel wrap is impossible to use with thick cables – Early instruments...
One way to characterize oven ports is by using a thermocouple probe inserted and potted with epoxy into a ferrule – just like when terminating a fiber, except you’ll be inserting the thermocouple tip instead of a fiber.
Cure it, as you would a regular...
With regards to ribbon fiber technology such as MT ferrules a laser cleaver offers a nice even scan providing a uniform fiber height over all fibers. A traditional manual operation shows often either a dome scribe just above the epoxy beat or a straight scribe with...
We have heard it said that 95% of problems in measurement are due to contamination. Train your production staff to always inspect and clean the device before conducting a measurement test. Cleaning will give you the best and most accurate measurement. In the long...
Best Practice tips and techniques for epoxy burst pouch / burstable seal bi-packs. You may want to save these tips – and refer to them when training your cable assembly production team.
Here are instructions for burst pouch bi-packs (with notes for best...
Setting up a new bonding process and need to establish the curing schedule or your production process is set but experiencing fiber movement and need to adjust curing temperature or time, here is a FOC TIP to validate your curing schedule:
Characterize the oven...
In copper manufacture, the copper conductors are the strength members in many of the cable designs. The optical fibers on the other hand while very high tensile strength glass, are extremely small and highly susceptible compressive and to off axis stress.
When we...
