Fiber Cleaver FTTH Fiber Optic Tools High Precision 6C Cable Cutting Fiber Optic Knife Tools Fiber Cleavers 12 Surface Blade

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V7 can be installed with a variety of holders for ribbon cable up to 12 fibers as well as universal holder which is applicable to 160µm to 900µm, 2mm-3mm and drop cable.

In some cases, it will not work at all, and more cumbersome techniques such as polishing (see below) are then required. As the fusion splicers became popular, precision cleavers were developed to support various splicing works. Standard cleavers cleave the fiber using the same blade position until that position becomes dull, resulting in poor cleaves.

In the field of fiber optics, it is very necessary to use fiber optic cables with clean and smooth end face. When optical fibers are connectorized, when they should be fusion-spliced or when light should be launched into fibers, the fiber ends need to be prepared such they have clean surfaces. Sometimes, a new cleave is required when a fiber end has become dirty, as it is hard to reliably clean fiber ends. Note that it is often very worthwhile to carefully inspect fiber cleaves before using them, as later on it may be much more tedious to locate a fault. Particularly substantial advantages of laser leaving are obtained when working with fiber arrays, since multiple fibers can be very quickly and consistently processed together.

In the past, the difficult process of blade rotation adjustments has necessitated increased service and maintenance of the fiber cleavers due to the frequent improper cleaver blade rotation and height adjustments. Our flat and angled electronic fiber cleavers offer even the novice user mirror quality cleaves at the touch of a switch.The FK11 features a patented anvil-less ultrasonic cleaving action that minimizes fiber end contamination, hackle, and misting – a cleaving technique that produces superb planar fiber ends of mirror quality. Before cleaving, a fiber coating needs to be stripped off with a coating stripper tool, or dissolved with a suitable solvent.

Corning's FBC-002 field cleaver is a single mode and multimode cleaver that has a ceramic blade with a life of at least 1,000 cleaves. On the other hand, a laser lever is of course substantially more expensive than a mechanical cleaver.The downside to these built-in cleavers is that if either the cleaver or splicer requires maintenance, the technician loses two valuable tools, which can hold up the job at hand. The optimum settings of a mechanical fiber cleaver – in particular, the applied tension – substantially depend on details like the glass materials and the fiber diameter.

If you intend to purchase the built-in cleavers, you must check whether the cleaver or splicer requires maintenance. Just like cutting glass plate, fiber is cut by scoring or scratching the surface and applying stress so the glass breaks in a smooth manner along the stress lines created by the scratch. With the introduction of the FC-6+, you now can have the ultimate precision tool for your single- and ribbon-fiber cleaving with a rotating blade.

For many sensitive fiber optic systems, back reflections can induce excessive noise and laser instability. FC-8R is a hand-held 1-step fiber cleaver with auto-rotating blade, smart cleave counter and offcut collector, for up to a 12-fiber ribbon. Although they are more costly than scribe cleavers, precision cleavers can cut multiple fibers with increasing speed, efficiency, and accuracy. Some deviation from a normal (perpendicular) cleave may be irrelevant if the orientation of the fiber (or possibly that of a focusing or collimation lens) can be controlled for correcting the tilt angle.