Optical fibers designed to meet specific optical properties can be used in a variety of applications such as medical, scientific, military/aeronautical, industrial, and telecommunications. The construction of these specialty fibers varies in core, cladding, and coating types and sizes and presents the industry with the challenge of providing solutions for low-volume and high-volume hybrid applications.
Handling these fibers, such as cutting, splicing, and removing coatings are common processes often associated with connectivity. Using, for example, tapering the diameter of the fiber or increasing the diameter of the fiber is also a common technique for transitioning to other media.
Last but not least, the ability to shape the fiber tip into a flat-angle, conical or spherical lens solution is a technique for redirecting the light path and is an example of fiber handling.
At ZR Fiber, we have customers who are interested in making short fibers because specific parts of the short fibers have been removed. Some of these coatings are difficult to remove and require high temperatures or chemicals to remove. If the fiber is short, it is difficult to do it manually.
We work with well-known companies that design and manufacture a variety of high-performance optical fiber stripping tools for removing optical fiber coatings, providing state-of-the-art high-strength thermo-mechanical strippers, non-contact high-strength optical fiber strippers , and is the only adjustable diameter thermal fiber stripper in the industry.
They hold multiple fiber stripping patents, state-of-the-art non-contact, chemical-free coating removal solutions ideal for end stripping and midspan window stripping of optical fibers for fiber coatings such as acrylic, PVC, polyimide, carbon and gold.
The ZR Fiber factory fiber processing steps focus on industry standard equipment selections that support many of the challenges described above. Please consult our fiber optic center technical experts for more information.
