When the fibers are melt during the fusion splicing, technician will use the sleeve on the melt point as a protection. Once the hot-meltable adhesive tube touches the melted fiber, it also melts to tightly wrap the fiber joint for the filling and sealing functions. After two fibers are precisely fused using a fusion splicer, the splice is fragile and needs protection from physical stress, moisture, dust, and other. A Fiber Optic Splice Sleeve is a protective tube designed to encase a fusion splice—the point where two optical fibers are joined together. An optical fiber is comprised of a light-carrying core in the center, surrounded by a cladding that acts to traps light in the. Optical fibers operate on the principle of total internal reflection, which keeps the light in the fiber core and guides it down the length of the fiber. Refraction refers to the bending of light as it passes from one substance to another. The light is "guided" down the center of the fiber called the "core". As we know, spliced bare fibers are fragile to be easily breakable. Therefore, a good protection for the.
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