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

CLEAVE: Blog Articles

Mechanical Cleaving Removes the Human Variable, Improves Your Process Control: Investigating the Phenix Fibersect

When I talk with FOC customers about MT ferrule cleaving in preparation for polishing, we discuss two basic options: “manual cleaving” and “automated cleaving”. 1.) Manual cleaving relies on a trained operator scoring the fiber with a fiber scribe, and then ...
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Laser vs Mechanical Cleaving Mt/Single Fiber Roadshow

With the introduction of mechanical MT cleaving by Phenix FO at OFC 2015 along with the existing laser cleaving options already on the market from Sagitta and Domaille we thought it might a good idea to line them up next to one another and compare the...
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Technical Article: Single Step Polishing (SSP) After Laser Cleaving

Published 5.1.15 in NASA Tech Briefs: Fiber Optic Connectors by Didi Hachnochi, CEO Sagitta Engineering Solutions Ltd. and Ben Waite, President and CEO Fiber Optic Center With the standardization of 4G wireless, the increase in cloud storage and computing, and the...
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