Fiber Optic Connector Assembly

Fiber Optic Connector Assembly

Fiber Optic Connector Install

The tools that are needed for Fiber Optic Connector Installation are as Fiber stripper, relief-boot, curving oven, crimp-sleeve, cable jacket stripper, and Kevlar scissors.

The consumable items required for Fiber Optic Connector installation are Fiber-polishing tool (including a fiber-polish abrasive pad), epoxy (self-curing or thermosetting, depending on the application), connectors, epoxy syringes, alcohol and wipes, polishing clothes.

Kevlar scissors are the kind of scissors required to cut the Fiber Optic Cable to the correct length. Fiber shears, like Kevlar Scissors, are required to cut through the jacket and strength members. Optical fibers cannot be cut using conventional cutters. The reason behind this is that optical fiber cables contain strength members that are Aramid-yarn. These types of members are impossible to cut from conventional cutters.

Strain-relief boot and crimp sleeve are placed on the fiber cable before stripping the cable. This way one will not be required to push them over the Aramid yarn and optical fiber. One can simply slide the boot and then sleeve down the cable out of the way.

The tool that is required to strip the jacket off of the Fiber Optic cable is a cable jacket stripper.

The cable jacket stripper strips the outer jacket. This exposes the buffered fiber and the Aramid-yarn strength members.

When the buffer is removed with the help of a fiber stripper, the optical fiber or the glass fiber is exposed.

The optical fiber should be clean of fingerprints, dirt and oil. This is necessary to ensure its optimal adhesion to the epoxy. We use alcohol, wipes and polishing clothes to clean the fiber. We soak a wipe using alcohol. We hold these alcohol wipes in one of our hands, between the thumb and forefinger. We simply run the fiber through the cloth. In this way, we clean the fiber.

The second step after the insertion of fiber into the connector includes putting on and crimping the crimp sleeve.

The sleeve is crimped two times.

The epoxy is dried with the help of a curing oven. It is inserted in one of the oven openings.

With the help of a fiber scribe, nick the extra fiber from the point where it is exiting the epoxy bead. Clean the top of the connector with the help of a cloth. In this way, the protruding fiber is removed. Now the fiber is ready to be polished. Insert the fiber connector in the polishing ...