Fiber Optic Cleaver

What is optical fiber cleaver?

Fiber optic cleaver is a tool or piece of equipment to do almost all the fiber end face cut. Just like using a diamond scribe tool for cutting glass, cleaver of the cutting wheel (blade) makes a very small fiber-wound first, then the fiber against a minor surgery to force it to break at 90 ° and exposed to a mirror, such as at the end.

Why do we need to split the optical fibers?

Optical fiber is cleaved by the merger of the connection. Fusion-splicing in almost always implies that the fiber tips, even exhibit an end surface which is perpendicular to the axis of the fiber. This is sufficient, and perpendicular to the planar end surface of the fiber can be obtained by cleavage of the process. In this group is cleaved in the process, brittle glass is fractured in a controlled. Polishing the tip can result in even higher quality fiber ends, but the polishing requires more expensive equipment and more processing power, so it is very rarely used as a fusion joint.

Fiber optic cleaver models

An optical fiber is cleaved by using a sufficiently high tensile stress in the vicinity of a sufficiently large surface cracks, which then rapidly expanding the cross-sectional size of the sonic speed. This idea has a wide range of practical implementations of a variety of commercial devices break down. In some cleavers applied to the fiber tensile stress and abrasion of the surface of a hard scribing tool, normally a diamond edge. Read More