Fiber optic patch cords are very important passive fiber optic components in fiber optic networks. There are many different fiber optic patch cable types as per their connectors and cables in making a fiber optic patch cord. You can learn Fiber Optic Patch Cord Wiki first. You will know the basic knowledge about them. To a purchase manager or salesman, It is better to learn How to make Fiber Optic Patch Cord too.
Here below we are trying to give you General View about How to make Fiber Optic Patch Cord and Production Process.
General View about How to make Fiber Optic Patch Cord
There are often 10 necessary steps to make sure a fiber optic patch cord qualified globally in the market.
Step.1 Fiber Optic Patch Cord Cable Cutting
Before fiber patch cords making, we should prepare all the materials like fiber cable, fiber connectors etc. A patch cord cable is often in a reel and it should be cut by cutting machine as per the length requirements by customers,A fiber cable cutting machine makes it easy and effective in cabling cutting.
Clean the cable after cutting is very important, This process is to make the fiber inside without any dust before inserting connector.Put the cable in good sequence so that it would be very easy to insert connector.
Use the jacket stripper to strip the outer and inner jacket of the cable and use the pastes to indentify the cable for producing the duplex or multi patch cord.
Inject some glue on the surface of the fiber and then inserting the fiber into the connector. Usually it is professional glue called353 epoxy.
Use vertical solidification furnace or horizontal solidification furnace to solidify the fiber on the connector.
After solidifying, the half-finished patch cords need to be cleaned with ultrasonic cleaning machine.And the interface of the connector needs to be polished to make sure the fiber would be one the same line as the ferrule.
Use 400 times or 600 times microscope to inspect the interface of the connector to make sure it clean. If there is any dust on the interface, we need to re-clean the connector again.
Use the inspection machines to do the FQC.It is important to test the patch cord for insertion and return loss value since they are the key factors affecting the function of patch cords.
Assembly the other parts of connectors to the patch cords .
After all the testing, the patch cords would be packed according to customers’ needs.Usually, each patch cord would be packed in one bag in order to keep it safer.
