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How Confident are you about your Connector Cleanliness?

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How Confident are you about your Connector Cleanliness?

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  • Author: Vincent Racine, François Marcotte, Gwennaël Amice
At the turn of the millennium, fi ber inspection was performed with a microscope. This required technicians to stick their eye on a potentially live fi ber, which meant risking personal injury every time they had to assess fi ber endface quality. In mid-2005, the eye care community breathed a sigh of relief when the fi rst fi ber inspection probes made their way to the market. These probes were able to display an image of the endface on an LCD display rather than directly on a tech’s retina. However, this image had to be interpreted. What constituted a defect or contaminant had to be based on user knowledge and gut instinct, and depending on the quality of the focus, image centering and several other parameters, there was always a chance of misinterpretation.

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