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Optimizing cleaving tools by end-angle measurement

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Abstract

Flat and perpendicular fiber ends are essential for connectors and terminations to sources and detectors in measurement equipment. In monomode fiber splicing, properly cleaved ends reduce core distortion and the corresponding component of joint loss.1 Although Gloge et al.,2 extended the principles of glass fracture to optical fibers the choice of optimum cleaving conditions has yet to be verified experimentally. Using an end-angle measurement unit (EAMU) (a device based on diffraction of light by the cleaved end3), the angles of the endfaces are examined for different tool settings, fiber diameters, and glass compositions to find the optimum cleaving conditions.

© 1983 Optical Society of America

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