Fujikura Europe Limited has just introduced its new Recoater and Proof Tester, the FSR-02, which boasts the latest technology for recoating the bare-glass region of an optical fibre splice or a fibre bragg grating.
The FSR-02 has two functions: firstly it recoats the UV curable resin over the bare-glass region, then proof tests the optical fibre to verify the spliced fibre strength. These two functions are especially important in submarine cables and optical fibre modules.
The FSR-02 is superior to existing recoaters and proof testers, claims Fujikura, in that rather than using a linear translating die to extrude the UV compound along the length of the bare-glass spliced region, it automatically injects the UV resin into the mould by a special pump.
The FSR-02 achieves excellent recoat results by use of a two-part mating quartz glass mould that provides a circular cross-section mould cavity lasting up to 10,000 recoats. The performance of the proof test is variable and programmable up to 20N and if the splice breaks during the proof test, the operator is automatically alerted by a buzzer alarm. Reliable and complete curing of the UV material is assured as the FSR-02 has a UV sensor monitor which automatically compensates for lamp intensity by adjustment of the UV curing time.
The Fujikura FSR-02 is user friendly with a typical cycle time for injection and curing of just 25 seconds. It has 30 programmable recoating modes with data storage for the last 100 recoating operations.
For more informations about FSR-02, please consult the following document:
fibreacc_recoater.pdf (215.96 KB)
