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density to clean the fiber.
Step 3: Cleave the fiber.
Use high precise fiber cleaver to cleave the fiber. Please refer to below cleaving
example.
Tips: Remember to fit the heat shrinkable sleeve before fiber preparation.
Make sure the bare optical fiber and its cleaving surface are not stained.
Avoid putting the fiber in dirty table
Avoid fiber swaying in air
Check whether the V-groove and pressure arm are clean, if not clean, it must be
cleaned with alcohol cotton swab.
4.6 Automatic inspection of optical fiber
After placing the fiber, fusion splicer starts, and there will be discharging cleaning.
After that, check the splicing angle and splicing quality of the cleaving surface.
