Archive Post for July, 2021

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What is the Ideal Fiber Height for a Fiber Optic Connector?

Turn the calendar way back to 1981 – the early days of fiber optics. I was working for a connector manufacturer, and one of my customers asked, “What is the Return Loss of your connector?” I didn’t know the answer! I was stumped and, frankly, I was embarrassed.   Since [ Continue reading…]

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Fiber Optic Polishing Fixture Maintenance

To help ensure consistent polishing results, maintenance of all fiber optic polishing equipment is essential.    The Preventive Maintenance program for polishing fixtures should include periodic ultrasonic cleaning.  This is true for any fiber optic polishing fixtures, regardless of connector or ferrule type:  connector fixtures with latching mechanisms (LC, SC), ferrule-only [ Continue reading…]

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How to Develop a Fiber Optic Polishing Process that Produces Consistent Results

  Frequently, my customers ask for guidance to develop a fiber optic polishing process.   While there are many details to consider, the process comes down to 5 basic steps.   Note that this article focuses on single-fiber (and not MT) PC ferrules. While much of my advice applies to [ Continue reading…]

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APC Polishing Advice to Improve Apex Offset and Angle Measurements

  Of the two common ferrule shapes involved in APC polishing – conical and step – the step ferrule is by far the easiest in terms of controlling geometries. Step ferrules are more expensive than conical ferrules. However, from a purely process-control point of view, step ferrules are absolutely the [ Continue reading…]

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How to polish fiber connectors – Fiber connector polishing Tips and Practices

  How to make your fiber optic polishing work to be correct and how to revise your fiber connector polishing  When you polishing a fiber connector or several connectors in polishing holder, by fiber polishing machine or fiber polisher, there are procedures and setting parameters designed to leverage the machines [ Continue reading…]

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Proper Care of Polishing Fixtures for Optical Fiber Polishing Machines

In fiber optic cable assembly, the polishing process is perhaps the most critical step to assure high-quality assemblies that meet specifications. That’s why it’s important to select the right optical fiber polishing machine – and polishing fixtures – that meet your needs. Depending on your cable assembly house product offerings, [ Continue reading…]

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Considerations About Fiber Optic Cable Installation

  It’s true that fiber optic cable, based on optical technology to carry information between two points, have become increasingly important in fiber optic systems. This cable is often attached with the same or different connectors on the ends to connect devices, for example, LC LC multimode patch cord (LCs [ Continue reading…]

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Do You Know How to Save Fibers in Your Networks?

  As we all know, in order to meet the increasing demand for higher bandwidth and faster transmission speed, more and more fiber optic cables have been put into use. However, as fiber infrastructures are getting more complicated, only adding numerous cables is no longer a feasible and economical option. [ Continue reading…]

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How to Easily Upgrade Your Network to 40G Ethernet

  The increasing need for higher bandwidth and faster data transmission drives the evolution of network Ethernet. 40G Ethernet is gradually becoming commonplace in telecommunication networks, as 10G cannot satisfy the never-stopping longing for higher speed communication any more. Unlike 1G migrating to 10G, 10G migrating to 40G gets across [ Continue reading…]

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Fiber Optic Transceivers with CWDM Technology

 CWDM (coarse wavelength division multiplexing) is the low-cost type of WDM technology, which is often used in metropolitan area network access networks. It is considered to be a flexible and economical solution to expand the existing network capacity without adding additional optical fibers. There are many devices deploying with CWDM [ Continue reading…]

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