Wayne Kachmar has been in the optical cable industry for over four decades. He has participated in many innovations and unique projects to provide optical cable in diverse environments such as the underwater ROV that penetrated the Titanic, as well as cable that is in service sensing sub-atomic particles in the Antarctic ice.
Wayne developed a number of unique concepts and products using optical fibers as both information carriers and sensors where the cable became the sensor. These have included fiber laser ring gyroscope components and distributed acoustic sensors for terrestrial and underwater applications.
As a principal investigator for many government sponsored projects, he has developed methods that push the state of the art in optical cable design and manufacture. Over his career, Wayne has been able to fuse this state of the art knowledge with conventional fiber cable design to significantly cost reduce both materials and processes.
He holds over 50 granted patents in fiber optic cables, connectors and tools and over 60 patents published or in process.
Wayne is President and Owner of Technical Horsepower Consulting, LLC
and Optical Cable Technical Expert for Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
At the 65th IWCS International Cable & Connectivity Symposium, Technical Horsepower Consulting, LLC. (THC) presented a short talk on Starting a Cable Company and/or Adding a Cable Making Division. The talk included a handout outlining the basic questions that
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As I was going over thoughts of what is appropriate for a summer blog I noticed that some of my hobbies and my vocation cross in very different ways. For example, I have spent the bulk of my professional career developing and building optical cables and the means to make them for many impossible tasks. From undersea micro umbilical’s to aerospace applications to lowest cost building entry cables
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Reflecting on trade show booths and poster papers now versus the past few years, I believe that we are ready for disruptive change. Every year there are many new disruptive technologies being put forth as ready for implementation. The real question is, are...
As the optical fiber and cable industry unfolded, several terms were coined to describe specific properties that were new and different from conventional wire processing. The term “Loose Tight Buffer” has been used to define both a specific property as well as
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I’ve heard this many times before and typically it’s from operations type folks who have seen both copper and fiber cable operations recognize the similarity of the process but do not understand the subtle differences between processing a malleable material
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One of the questions that I’ve been asked about many times is; how tight is the buffer on the cable that I am providing? Is it a “true tight buffer” or is it “semi-tight” or “loose tight buffer” or one of the other various terms thrown around such as tight...
