Two optical fibers need to be connected through a fiber optic flange connector. The specific operations are as follows:
1. Remove the protective head of the fiber optic flange connector.
2. Insert the optical fiber interfaces into both ends of the optical fiber flange connector.
The ferrule materials of fiber optic flange connectors include ceramics, metals, plastics, etc. Each connector has different colors of outer frames and tail sleeves to choose from. Through processes such as solidification and grinding.
Fiber optic flange connectors are used to make various types of jumpers or pigtails with various types of optical cables, and are widely used in communication equipment rooms, fiber to the home, local area networks, fiber optic sensors, Fiber optic communication systems, fiber optic connection transmission equipment, national defense readiness, etc.
Applicable to cable TV networks, telecommunications networks, computer optical fiber networks and optical testing equipment
Extended information:
Some fiber types
1. Silica Fiber
Silica Fiber is an optical fiber that uses silicon dioxide (SiO2) as the main raw material and controls the refractive index distribution of the core and cladding according to different doping amounts. . Quartz (glass) series optical fiber has the characteristics of low consumption and broadband, and has been widely used in cable TV and communication systems.
2. Fluorine-doped optical fiber
Fluorine Doped Fiber is one of the typical products of quartz optical fiber. Generally, in communication optical fibers in the 1.3 μm wave domain, the dopant controlling the core is germanium dioxide (GeO2), and the cladding is made of SiO2. However, most of the cores of fluorine-connected optical fibers use SiO2, while fluorine is incorporated into the cladding.
3. Infrared optical fiber
As the working wavelength of the quartz series optical fiber developed in the field of optical communication, although it is used for shorter transmission distances, it can only be used for 2μm. For this reason, the optical fiber developed can work in the longer infrared wavelength field and is called infrared optical fiber.
Infrared optical fiber (Infrared Optical Fiber) is mainly used for light energy transmission. For example: temperature measurement, thermal image transmission, laser scalpel medical treatment, thermal energy processing, etc., but the penetration rate is still low.
4. Composite optical fiber
Compound fiber is made from SiO2 raw materials, and then appropriately mixed with materials such as sodium oxide (Na2O), boron oxide (B2O3), potassium oxide (K2O) ) and other oxides are made into multi-component glass optical fibers.
The characteristic is that multi-component glass has a lower softening point than quartz glass and the refractive index difference between the core and the cladding is very large. Fiber optic endoscopes mainly used in the medical business.
5. Fluoride fiber
Fluoride fiber Fluoride fiber is an optical fiber made of fluoride glass. This optical fiber raw material is also referred to as ZBLAN (that is, zirconium fluoride (ZrF2), barium fluoride (BaF2), lanthanum fluoride (LaF3), aluminum fluoride (AlF3), sodium fluoride (NaF) and other chloride glass raw materials are simplified into
6. Plastic Clad Fiber (Plastic Clad Fiber) is made of high-purity quartz glass with a slightly lower refractive index than quartz. A step-type optical fiber made of plastic such as silica gel is used as a cladding.
Compared with quartz optical fiber, it has the characteristics of thick core and high numerical aperture (NA). Therefore, it is easy to use with light-emitting diode LED light sources. Combined, the loss is also small, so it is very suitable for local area network (LAN) and short-range communication.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Fiber Optic Flange Connector