How to Splice Fiber Optic Cable

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In this video, I will introduce fiber optic splicing and how to do it.

What is fiber optic splicing exactly?
Fiber splicing is the process to join two optical fibers together, so the light can pass through from one fiber to the other.

Differences between mechanical fiber splicing and fusion splicing:
- Mechanical fiber splicing is just a mechanical alignment device. This device holds these two fibers and precisely aligns them, so that light can pass from one fiber to the other fiber with minimum loss.

These two fibers are still two separate, individual fibers. Their end faces are just precisely touched together, with some index matching gel in between. They DO NOT become one single continuous fiber. This is the biggest difference from the fusion splicing process.

**Mechanical fiber splicing DOES NOT need any expensive machines, but they may need some simple assembly tools.

- The splicing machine aligns the fibers precisely and then fuse or weld the fibers together with an electric arc.

These two fibers become one continuous single fiber once they are fused together. This is the biggest difference from mechanical splicing.

**You need an expensive machine, called fusion splicer, to do a fiber fusion splicing.

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