Study on the influential factors in the fusion splice loss of SMF-28 and MP980 fibers
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Author list: Khamdee P., Bhatranand A., Jiraraksopakun Y.
Publication year: 2016
Volume number: 2
Start page: 503
End page: 508
Number of pages: 6
ISBN: 9789881404763
ISSN: 2078-0958
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of the factors that have significant influences on fiber fusion splicing loss of two different commercial single-mode fibers: SMF-28 and MP980. Crucial parameters such as fusion current and fusion time Including particular conditions are studied and demonstrated in this study to obtain low-loss fusion splicing. Fusion currents in the range of 13.4-13.8 mA with step of 0.1 mA were used in experiments to find the optimal values of splicing loss. Depending on the fusion currents, the experimental results showed the appropriate fusion times for mentioned currents were 2.6, 2.5, 2.4, 2.1, and 1.8 s, respectively. These results indicate that, In order to achieve low-loss fusion splicing, the fusion current is inversely proportional to fusion time. Yet, high fusion current, causing high arc temperature, does not always yield fiber fusion splicing with low loss due to the deformation of fiber cores prior to the fusion completion. The proposed conditions can definitely be applied to the practical industrial sector subject to fusion splicer.
Keywords
Fusion splice loss, Optical fiber splicing, Single-mode fibers
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