Quick answer: Strip the fiber jacket and buffer, clean the bare glass with 99% IPA, cleave to under 1 degree, load both fibers into the splicer, run the splice cycle, heat-shrink the protection sleeve, and verify the splice loss. Total time per splice for an experienced tech is. A fusion splice is a permanent, ultra-low-loss joint between two optical fibers, formed by melting their glass end-faces with an electric arc. The procedure is straightforward but unforgiving -- skip a step or get sloppy with prep, and the splice fails. Once you've prepared your loose tube fibers, it's time to splice it to another cable or some pigtails and in both cases. The guide provides the complete workflow, covering safety precautions, tool selection, fiber preparation, fusion operation, quality control, and. This document describes the installation of optical fiber with both single fiber and/or ribbon fiber splices into Optical Splice Enclosure (OSE) metal splice trays (Figure 1).
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