A fiber handling system (FHS) is described in this paper to minimize fiber damages during handling in manufacturing processes of optical components. The manufacture of an undersea telecommunication component is used as an example to demonstrate the FHS concept. However, this FHS concept can be used in any manufacturing process that involves optical fibers.
With inventions of ultra low loss glass fibers and reliable semiconductor lasers, the current choice for the telecommunication industry is lightwave technology which consists of many optical components. The reliability requirements of optical coatings used in such optical components of current and future lightwave telecommunication systems are presented in this paper.
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