Fiber Cleaver FTTH Fiber Optic Tools High Precision 6C Cable Cutting Fiber Optic Knife Tools Fiber Cleavers 12 Surface Blade

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of Japan since 2005, is widely recognized by the telecommunications industry as one of the foremost fiber optic solution providers. The model FK12 angled fiber cleaver produces mirror-like fiber ends with user-selectable cleave angles to minimize back reflections. On the other hand, a laser lever is of course substantially more expensive than a mechanical cleaver. There are hand-held microscopes for such purposes, and fusion splicing apparatuses also often contain a microscope.

These products target at applications where a consistent, defect-free, but angled cleave is required, such as for semiconductor laser diode manufacturing. 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. It is the industry’s first automatic blade rotation cleaver, and always ensures high precision cleaves.For very high-quality fiber surfaces, it is often necessary to apply some polishing procedure after cleaving. A fiber cleaver utilizes an automatic anvil drop for fewer required steps and better cleaving consistency. Cleaved tips showing a chip visible in the magnified image of a fusion splicer should be re-cleaved. FC-8R is a hand-held 1-step fiber cleaver with auto-rotating blade, smart cleave counter and offcut collector, for up to a 12-fiber ribbon.

Fiber cleavers, designed for fusion splicing, need a low average angle that is one degree or less, whereas cleavers appropriate for mechanical connectors require angles below three degrees. It is the ideal tool for use in fusion splicing, field termination, or any application that requires precision in a confined space. In addition they also manufacture a full line of optical cabling, cable assemblies and fiber management systems.

The scribe or manual cleaver, which is cheaper than the precision cleaver, is the most original type of fiber optic cleaver. The advantage of the precision cleavers is that they can produce repeatable results through thousands of cleaves by simply just rotating the wheel/blade accordingly. As with fusion splicers, there are a host of illegitimate knock-offs that replicate the body, look, and branding of the leading manufacturers’ cleavers. Usually, such surfaces should be as flat as possible, at least over the area of the fiber core (sometimes over the full cross-section), and often it is important that the surface is either perpendicular to the fiber axis or has a well-defined angle against the fiber axis.