Fusion Splicers
Sumitomo optical fibre fusion splicers are designed and produced in Japan, based on market requirements communicated to Sumitomo Electric Industries from their sales and marketing subsidiaries around the world.
Sumitomo's core aligning single fibre fusion splicers adopt the Profile Align System (PAS) image processing technique to precisely align the fibre cores prior to fusion. Splice loss estimation is also achieved by image processing using PAS sampling and, on core aligning splicers, High Definition Core Monitoring (HDCM).
Sumitomo fusion splicers have been supplied to major telecommunication network operators all over the world and also to many manufacturers of equipment and products containing optical fibre.
From the original, profile aligning fusion splicers of the 1980's, such as the T-34; Sumitomo has refined and developed their single fibre fusion splicer range through many generations: the T-35 & T-35SE, T-36 and T-37 & T-37SE to the fast and lightweight T-39 of today.
Similarly Sumitomo's ribbon splicer products evolved from the T-51 through the T-61, 62, 63 and T-65 to the T-66 which introduced dual independent heat shrink ovens to ribbon splicing.
Since the early days of splicer design Sumitomo has offered cladding alignment fusion splicers, from the T-100 of the 1980's, through the T-200, T-300, T-41 and T-45 to the T-25e, our enhanced micro-splicer for FTTx and campus network splicing.
Sumitomo has many years experience producing specialist fusion splicers, especially those for creating high strength splices. The original high strength splicer from Sumitomo was the T-35SE-4, followed by the T-36HS and the T-37HSB.
Special versions of Sumitomo fusion splicers are widely used by the Universal Joint / Universal Connector Consortium for installation & maintenance of sub-sea optical fibre cables.
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