With the constant introduction of new fiber types and the mixing of fiber types in opto-electronic devices such as optical amplifiers and sensors, splicer optimization is essential in minimizing splice loss and keeping splices physically robust. AFL Telecommunications provides an optimization service to determine the optimal settings for any combination of fiber types in any of our splicers.

This process involves changing over 50 splicer machine parameters, ranging from splicer arc power to fiber movement rate. These parameters change significantly with fiber characteristics such as fiber diameter, refractive index profile, and dopant composition.

In the FSM-40F and FSM-40PM machines, optimization plays an important role in maximizing the benefits of sweep arc technology, which minimizes the effects of differences in mode field diameters in a pair of fibers, thereby minimizing splice loss.

Since splicers also include loss estimation functions, a separate loss estimation optimization is performed to maximize the accuracy of the loss estimation function on the machine to provide the most accurate splice loss readings. All of the parameters can be easily downloaded into a fusion splicer once complete.

Please contact AFL Telecommunications for further information on specifications and ordering.