Fiber optic cleaning is very important

The components of fiber optical connector are in ultra precision machining, and their connecting end face is mirror grinding processing. Its purpose is to ensure that the optical signal correctly through the optical center of diameter 0.01mm transmission parts.

According to a new study of HTI Martin Technical Research, 80% of the fiber optical fault transmission is due to dust or dirt caused. Contaminated optical connector surface leads to many problems.

(1)The optical signal is completely blocked.

(2)The connection point to produce light reflection caused the transmitting end equipment damage.

(3)A light signal attenuation.

(4)High energy laser burning the connecting end face.

And for high-speed optical transmission and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), LD energy laser output power over 1W will be more and more. If there are contaminants or dust on the ferrule end , what will happen? Here are the results.

(1)pollutants or dust will be fever, it may melt (foreign fiber for fiber optic adapter and connection requires high temperatures above 75 degrees, can use).

(2)because of light reflection, resulting in damage, affect the entire communication system. (OTDR sensitive)

(3)And the dust on the end face heating by a high-energy laser irradiation results: Heating makes the fiber core burned out; Heating makes the fiber core melting sag; Heating makes metal powder surrounding the fiber core dissolved in the end face.

The Martin Technical Research Company independent research found that 80% of users and 98% operators experienced the failure of fiber end surface caused by unclean, and another 72% users and 88% operators have experienced problems caused by poor polishing. The index of optical fiber fault is much higher than that of other causes.

So we have to clean the fiber end regularly to reduce the incidence of failure, which can be better to save time and money. Attached to the fiber connection dust and pollutants on the end is invisible to the human eye, and because of the harm, we must use cleaning tools to do special high cleanliness for their careful cleaning of the connector.

Nowadays Fiber Optic Cleaning products are being highly recommended as a kind of very important tool for electrical manufactures. One of the most basic and important procedures for the maintenance of fiber optic systems is to clean the fiber optic equipment. With the increasingly growth of using Gigabit Ethernet in our daily life, the importance of keeping the fiber clean is not allowed to be ignored. Any contamination in the fiber connection can cause failure of the component or failure of the whole system. FiberStore provides many kinds of fiber cleaners to ease or remove all kind of dirty particles, such as dust, dripping and moist. For example, Neoclean-E is one of our fiber cleaning pen products.

Neoclean-E-Pen Cleaner is a simplified pen type cleaner with a replacement cartridge, which allows the cleaning of the end-faces of fiber connectors and in-adapter ferrules with one simple action. The replaceability of the cleaning thread enables the re-utilisation of the cleaning tool, thus avoiding the disposal of the whole tool when the thread is due to be changed. Each replaceable thread provides over 750 ferrule cleaning cycles. The pen cleaner features a special microfiber tissue that removes all contaminations and secures them. Its antistatic property prevents static load that could bring new contamination after the cleaning. The cleaners are used for a wide range of applications, including cleaning of fiber optic connector end-faces alone and connected in patch panels and adapters and Media Converter cleaning.