Cleaver Technology at Oxford Fiber Optic Tools We help our customers obtain optimum performance from their optical fiber systems by supplying the best tools in the world - combining precision performance with ease of use and excellent service. We supply tools for the installation of optical fiber and other major industrial applications. We can also design and supply products for your specific applications. The quality, value and service we deliver is why customers in the telecommunications and medical industries keep coming back to us.
	Oxford manufactures and supplies the following precision optical fiber cleavers: - Perpendicular cleavers for test and measurement and splicing: HSTC-2001       125um fiber                               0 (+/- 0.5) degrees - Angled cleavers for reducing back reflection to < -60dB AFC 2008        125um fiber                               8 (+/- 0.5) degrees HSAFC 2008     125um fiber, 250-900um coating   8 (+/- 0.5) degrees - We also produce special cleavers for your applications including: Perpendicular cleavers for fiber diameters of 80um - 400um Angled cleavers with end angles of 4 - 15 degrees.
	Applications for Oxford's Cleavers PM Fiber The HSTC-2001, AFC-2008 and HSAFC-2008 will all cleave polarisation maintaining fiber. Perpendicular cleaves are mirror-smooth and crack-free. The PM stress rods do not significantly reduce the quality of the cleave. Angled cleaves are mirror-smooth. With the PM orientation such that the stress rods are different lengths, cracks appear on the outside of the stress members, approximately 30um from the core. The angle of the cleaved end changes by up to 1 degree in the region of the stressed core.
	Coupler Cleaver 1 x 2 couplers require one of the legs of a 2 x 2 coupler to be cleaved off with a low reflection termination. The HSAFC-2012/Coupler cleaver angle cleaves SM fiber with a 12 degree end angle at a distance 3mm from the end of the coupler body. The expected back-reflection is approximately -70dB.
	Ferrule Cleaver Oxford can modify the HSAFC-2008 angled cleaver to produce an 8 degree angled cleave 0.5mm from the end of the ferrule. This is useful for pig-tailing fiber to opto-electronic devices.
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