The Combiner Manufacturing System, CMS, is our latest and most advanced optical fiber splicing / processing system. The CMS is specifically designed to maintain production level repeatability for multi kilowatt class high power fiber combiners and other fused optical components. The CMS operates is partial vacuum and is utilizing the unique Thermally Stabilized Plasma™ technology, which generates an extremely repeatable and stabilized heat source with a vide dynamic range of operation from <300°C to >3000°C. This makes the CMS ideal for repeatable glass processing and high-volume optical component manufacturing.
The main CMS functionalities:
SPLICING :
- Splicing of 125 µm to 2000 µm fibers supported
- Automatic alignment with an exclusive <50nm X and Y fiber positional resolution
- Automatic pitch and yaw alignment
- End cap splicing for cylindrical, chamfered and tapered end caps
TAPERING :
- Taper lengths of up to 175mm supported in bidirectional mode
- Automatic taper creation via intuitive software interface or manual table editing
- Exclusive "Table Based Tapering™" software included for easy user level single direction or bidirectional taper program creation and nearly infinite engineer level process control
CLEAVING :
- Semi-automatic in-situ cleaving of fibers up to 500 µm
- Adjustable precision cleaving location via image feedback
KEY FEATURES :
• Extremely repeatable glass processing heat source ideal for high volume optical component manufacturing with a range of operation from <300°C to >3000°C.
• Unsurpassed heat source circumferential thermal uniformity for symmetrical ultra-low loss tapering and reduced thermally induced component stress.
• Contamination free heat source capable of producing ultra-high strength multi kilowatt class optical components.
• Fastest cycle times based on standard splice, taper, and cleave cycle times averaged together.
• In situ cleaver included for fiber diameters ≤ 500 µm.
APPLICATIONS :
• Combiners
• End-Caps
• Bundles
• Dissimilar splices
• Large diameter fibers (125um to 2mm)
• Multi Core Fibers & High power lasers