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The COFI-OSP course is designed for installation and maintenance staff working on core telecom fibre optic networks. On the COFI-OSP course you will learn to prepare fibre optic cabling for splicing within splice closures and ODFs and learn to terminate fibre optic cables by splicing on pre-terminated pigtails or splice on connectors in an ODF. The 16-position blade yields 60,000 cleaves, resulting in extended intervals between blade replacement. The CT-58 is designed for use with either Fujikura FH-100 or FH-70 series fibre holders but can also be used with the optional adapter plate to eliminate the need for fibre holders, if desired. When used with the optional spacers for the cleaver and RS-03 thermal stripper, six different cleave lengths can be easily attained. 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. Even with a mechanical precision cleaver, the results may not be fully reliable because they require correct settings and can be spoiled by a defect blade, which is not easy to recognize. Additional Treatment: Polishing

G. Van Steenberge et al., Laser cleaving of glass fibers and glass fiber arrays. J. Light. Technol. 23, 2 (2005) Instruction Manual for High Precision Fiber CleaverCT-30 Series”, URL: https://shop.nag.ru/uploads/CT-30%20new%20manual.pdf. Tools for fiber cleaving are called fiber cleavers. Different kinds of such instruments are explained in the article on fiber cleavers. Simple and inexpensive cleavers, based e.g. on some pen-shaped scribes, are sufficient for simple purposes, when used with proper training. For a higher and more consistent cleave quality, which is less dependent on the operator, mechanical precision splicers are used, which are substantially more expensive. Problematic Cases

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In the cleaving process, the brittle glass fiber is fractured in a controlled manner as shown below. M.A. Al Mamun, P.J. Cadusch, T. Katkus, S. Juodkazis, P.R. Stoddart, Quantifying end-face quality of cleaved fibers: Femtosecond laser versus mechanical scribing. Opt. Laser Technol. 141, 107111 (2021) Steps of Fusion Splicing Fiber Optic Cables, URL: https://telecom.samm.com/steps-of-fusion-splicing-fiber-optic-cables. Fibers with particularly large diameters, e.g. beyond 200μm, can also be difficult to cleave. They need a higher tension force. The CT-58 cleaver is designed specifically for cleaving silica fibres with 80μm cladding and up to 400μm coatings. It delivers unprecedented durability and simplistic maintenance unseen with any other cleaver, in part thanks to its Bluetooth connectivity and smartphone app, which makes it convenient to managed blade life. With motorised push-button blade rotation and a convenient thumbwheel for blade height adjustment, routine cleaver adjustments have also never been easier.

Both optical fiber slicing techniques require that the fiber tips are a smooth end face that is perpendicular (90°) to the fiber axis as shown below. If fibers should be fusion-spliced, the cleaved surfaces should be quite precisely perpendicular to the axis and must be smooth over the whole fiber cross-section. For example, one could not properly but together the fiber surfaces if a fiber had a small protrusion (a part standing out), even if that is only near the edge, far away from the fiber core. Also, only for smooth regular surfaces, the surface tension of the softened fibers will optimally self-align the fibers during the fusion process. In addition, a kink shape due to non-perpendicular cleaves can cause substantial coupling losses, particularly for large mode area fibers. The quality of the obtained cleaves has different aspects, the relevance of which depends on the application: 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. Often, fiber cleavers are pre-adjusted for silica fibers with the standard diameter of 125μm. For fluoride fibers or other mid-infrared fibers, for example, one may have difficulties finding suitable parameters for repeatable cleaving results.

M. Janna Vassantachart, M. Lightfoot, A. Yeo, J. Maldonado, R. Li, M. Alsyouf, J. Martin, M. Lee, G. Olgin, D. Duane Baldwin, Laser fiber cleaving techniques: effects on tip morphology and power output. J. Endourol 29, 84 (2015) C. Paviolo, S. Jayawardhana, S. A. Wade, and P. R. Stoddart, Angle cleaving optical fibers using a CO2 laser”, In: 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, ACOFT 2010 ( 2010).

Md. Abdullah AlMamuna, J. Peter Cadusch, T. Katkus, S. Juodkazis, R. Paul Stoddart, Quantifying end-face quality of cleaved fibers: Femtosecond laser versus mechanical scribing. Opt. Laser Technol. 141, 107111 (2021) AFL Telecommunications, a subsidiary of Fujikura Ltd. of Japan since 2005, is widely recognized by the telecommunications industry as one of the foremost fiber optic solution providers. 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. Options: Connector and ferrule adapters, vacuum waste collection, footswitch cut actuator, cut counterM. Iwamatsu, M. Tabata, Y. Kurosaka, and M. Ishihara, Optical Fiber Angle Cleaver, Fujikura Tech. Rev. (2011). M. Kihara, M. Okada, M. Hosoda, T. Iwata, Y. Yajima, M. Toyonaga, Tool for inspecting faults from incorrectly cleaved fiber ends and contaminated optical fiber connector end surfaces. Opt. Fiber Technol. 18, 470 (2012) Since fracture is such a violent and difficult to control process, even the best commercial cleaver will sometime produce defective cleaves. Bluetooth wireless connection of this product is not guaranteed to work with all 3 smartphones or other devices. Bluetooth is a registered trdemark of Bluetooth SIG, Inc. Warranty: One year or 600,000 cuts, whichever comes first when cutting 12-fibre epoxied MT ferrules