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Holiday Update:
Fiber Optic Center will be closed December 24 and 25. Due to potential early carrier pickups, PLEASE HAVE ALL ORDERS IN BY NOON ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 23.
We will resume our regular business hours on Thursday, December 26.
Fiber Optic Center will be at Photonics West - Schedule your meeting with a member of the FOC team now
FOC has posted several articles on cleaning and inspection in recent years.Two recent ones were Ensuring Clean Fiber Connections, and The Art of Cleaning. The first article cites IEC standard 61300-3-35, which covers visual inspection techniques and
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The cleaning activities for fiber optic connectors can be divided into two different “fields": During the manufacturing stages in the fiber optic cable assembly process, During installation for fiber optic applications such as data communications, laser
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When it comes to fiber installations, cleanliness is the key to success. Whether the work is in buildings, on construction sites or outdoors in trenches for fiber ducts, there is at a minimum, dust. Dirty connectors cause the highest percentage of fiber optic...