Hanover, Germany, Feb. 12, 2020 – Well-established splicer devices for fiber-to-fiber splices have been on the market for many years. The availability of CO2 laser-based fiber splicing systems which ...

Since optical fiber has the characteristic that 'light reflects inside as it travels,' even the slightest misalignment is not permitted when connecting optical fibers. For this reason, a fusion ...

In the early days of fiber optics, telephone cable repairmen crouched in tents to splice cables under a microscope. It wasn’t the best working environment: Airborne dust landed on the severed ends of ...