Optical Fiber Automatic Preparation Machine APM-102

AFL’s LZM-100 LAZERMaster is a glass processing and splicing system that uses a CO2 laser heat source rather than electrodes, ensuring repeatable performance and low maintenance, and eliminating electrode or filament maintenance and instability. Splicing or adiabatic tapering (to create mode field adapters or pump combiners) can be performed with glass diameters of 2.3 mm or less. The high resolution optical analysis system works in conjunction with on-board firmware for fully automatic splicing, tapering and other glass shaping processes.

The APM-101 perform all the steps required to prepare optical fibers before splicing – automatically and with high consistency. This includes stripping the fiber without degrading fiber quality, cleaning fiber with alcohol to remove coating residue, and cleaving consistently at a right angle to the fiber axis. The entire process is complete in as little as 23 seconds.

Fiber holder FH-100 series are for Fujikura fusion splicer FSM-100 resies, FSM-40F/PM and FSM-45 series. The FH-100 series are supplied with a pair.

The CleaveMeterTM interferometer system is designed for inspecting the surface quality, flatness and perpendicularity of cleaved and polished optical fibers. Complementing the NYFORS AutoCleaverTM line of automatic fiber cleavers with process documentation and optimization functionality, it allows every cleave to be individually inspected and evaluated even in high volume production environments.