Aerospace cable repair via field-portable fiber optic tip shaping and permanent mechanical splice technology

Author

Tran, V.D. ; Beranek, Mark ; Hackert, Michael ; McDermott, Brian ; Peterson, Nicholas ; Burnham, Geoffrey ; Wu, Victor ; Zhao, Jing ; Christopher, Anthony ; Ciolfi, George ; Mazurowski, John

Author_Institution

Naval Air Syst. Command, Patuxent River, MD, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

4-6 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

105

Lastpage

106

Abstract

In this paper we have described the development of a novel fiber optic cable restoration technology based on field-portable fiber tip shaper and mechanical splicer devices. The cable restoration procedure accommodates aerospace simplex fiber optic cable, fiber with both strippable and un-strippable coatings, produces no hazardous waste (glass shards), requires little training and virtually no preventative maintenance to produce mechanical splices that meet or exceed MIL-PRF-24623/7 beginning of life insertion loss and twist specification requirements.

Keywords

aerospace components; antireflection coatings; optical cables; optical fibre losses; splicing; aerospace cable repair; aerospace simplex fiber optic cable; fiber optic cable restoration technology; field-portable fiber optic tip shaping; life insertion loss; permanent mechanical splice technology; preventative maintenance; twist specification; unstrippable coatings; Aircraft; Insertion loss; Maintenance engineering; Mechanical cables; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7344-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082149

Filename

6082149