WCA November 2013

Showing the red card to airlines

At the production of the preform for optical fibres, there is a risk that air bubbles might be enclosed. Later, at the fibre drawing process, fibre airlines could arise. Airlines at the interfaces may lead to complications in further processing. Sikora accepted the great challenge to reliably detect airlines in optical fibres. A fibre diameter measuring device would just recognise the outer contour of the fibre, but not the airline inside the fibre. The airline detector Fiber Laser 6003 Airline, however, was designed to reliably localise airlines in optical fibres. The airline detection features a high measuring rate and is able to detect airlines down to a diameter of 0.5µm. The ideas of the Sikora research and development team led to a modular concept – the Fiber Laser 6003 Airline and the gauge head Fiber Laser 6003 come as a unit. This concept makes it possible to offer the benefit of airline detection at an attractive price. The combination of Sikora’s Fiber Laser 6003 gauge heads with the Fiber Laser 6003 Airline detector offers the measurement of diameter, position, spinning and tension as well as reliable airline detection. All devices are

equipped with the universal interface module. In order to attain optimum conditions in optical fibre production, four devices are needed in the drawing tower. A Fiber Laser 6003 after the extension tube, the Fiber Laser 6003 Airline before the coating cup, the Fiber Laser 6003 and the Fiber Lump 6003 after the coating. For drawing with primary and secondary coating, a further Fiber Laser 6003 might be installed after the first coating. This way, the optical fibre production is always secure. Sikora AG – Germany Website : www.sikora.net ❍ ❍ The Fiber Laser 6003 Airline from Sikora

Cleaning up at the data centres Fujikura Europe Ltd has launched its new One-Click™ Cleaner MPO, designed specifically for cleaning MPO/MTP connectors and adapter mounted MPO/MTP connectors which are widely used in data centres and also in some telco-operated infrastructure. The new product cleans MPO/MTP connector end-faces which have been exposed to loose contaminants, such as dirt and oil from an installer’s fingers. With just one simple action it is able to clean a variety of fibre counts up to 48 fibre MPO/MTP end-faces and is capable of providing over 500 cleans per unit. The One-Click™ Cleaner MPO is now included within a range of tools which are designed and built to clean an array of network connections. It has also been produced to be more ergonomic than the previous design of MPO cleaning tools by Fujikura, and is able to effectively remove contaminants to the same high standard and low cost per clean at a significantly faster pace. “This new tool will not only make the task of cleaning these abundant connectors easier and quicker with improved functionality, it will keep the cost per clean down and allow for in situ cleans too, which some other cleaners are not able to do,” said Brian Leonard, European product manager (connectivity). The cleaner is compliant with the EU/95/2002/EC directive (RoHS) since it is made of environmentally friendly materials. An adapter/dust cap is also supplied with the product for cleaning MPO/MTP connector plugs as well as the connectors themselves. Fujikura Europe Ltd – UK Website : www.fujikura.co.uk

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