3SAE Large Diameter Splicing System (LDS 2.5)

• Extremely repeatable glass processing heat source ideal for high volume optical component manufacturing with a range of operation from ~700°C to >3000°C.

• Unsurpassed heat source provides circumferential thermal uniformity for symmetrical ultra-low loss fiber optic tapering and reduces thermally induced component stress.

• Contamination free heat source capable of producing ultra-high strength multi kilowatt class optical components.

• Fastest cycle times based on standard fusion splice, fiber optic taper, and cleave cycle times averaged together.

• Automatic alignment of Pitch and Yaw included with <0.01 degree resolution pre-taper alignment, optical fiber to optical fiber alignments, endcap splicing, tapered glass splicing, and fiber optic combiner splicing.

• Orthogonal views utilizing 5mp vision system with telecentric lenses providing 4.2mm wide x 3.5mm tall field of view and up to 20 frames per second.

• Live process monitoring via full resolution video imaging of the molten fiber optic glass without under or overexposure.

• In situ cleaver supports fiber optic diameters from 20um to 500um.

• Capable of fusion splicing and tapering of optical fibers ranging in diameters from 125um to 2.5mm. Requires taper package.

• Capable of fusion splicing optical fibers as dissimilar as 125um to 2.5mm in diameter.

• Piezo-driven flexure stage and software package providing 130μm of vibration-free z-axis motion with 0.25 μm theoretical resolution.

• Scanning software is capable of scanning optical fibers diameter before or after a fusion splice or fiber optic taper.

• Automatically captures fusion splice images before, during, and after fusion splice along with splice data and program file for each splice.

• “Hot Imaging” provides live viewing during fusion processing of optical fibers in real time.

• Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCF) can be spliced with little to no air hole collapse.

• Capable of uniformly collapsing Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) allowing for positional cleaving, ultrasonic cleaning (no liquid wicking into air holes), and achieving excellent splice losses. (Cleaving requires cleaving package).

• <50nm X and Y fiber positional resolution of over the full stroke of 12mm.

• Taper lengths of up to 150mm supported in bidirectional mode. * Requires taper package.

• Taper lengths of up to 90mm supported in single directional mode.* Requires taper package.

• Exclusive “Table Based Tapering™” software included for single direction, bidirectional taper, or custom algorithm program creation and nearly infinite engineer level process control.** Requires taper package.

*Taper ratio dependent.

**User can adjust both fiber platform locations, the heat zone location, and the arc power setting 20 times per second for the entire process.