Design of fiber holder for optical fiber‐ribbon splice

Abstract

A field‐usable optical fiber‐ribbon holder is proposed. Optical fiber ribbon is fixed by placement between wavy plates. The fiberfixing mechanism is analyzed theoretically and experimentally. Optimum fiber‐holder sizes are also investigated. Using this fiber holder, average and maximum fiber‐end displacement of 3.8 and 15μm are obtained. Lowloss splicing of SM fiber ribbon is confirmed, with average splice loss of 0.05 dB.

Design and performance of ultra-high-density optical fiber cable with rollable optical fiber ribbons

“…This is because the setting time for the fiber holder may be longer when the pitch is longer. Therefore, we measured the total splicing time using a conventional fiber holder [15] and a mass fusion splicing machine. The measured result is shown in Fig.…”

Mass Splice Method for Single-Mode Fiber Ribbons

“…Fig. 2 shows the distribution of fiber end face gap D a when ribbon fiber end faces are butted together in the Vgrooves of a splice machine using a ribbon fiber holder [5]. One fiber ribbon unit contains 10 fibers.…”

“…Furthermore, the distribution of ot s is derived using (2) and (5). The distribution function Q s of oc s is obtained Q s = P D /(da s /dD a ) = -C 1 (C c -a s )exp{-(C c -a s )/C 2 C 3 }/C|, (6) C c = C 3 + C 4 + C 3 S 0 Splice failure probability R f can be also derived based on the condition that the splice fails unless all the fibers in the ribbon unit are fused together:…”