Understanding the safety hazards that go with fiber optic cable is critical for those who install or maintain fiber optic systems. As electrical professionals, most of us take fiber optic (FO) safety for granted. Since fiber optic cable carries no electricity, we don’t worry about electrocution. Similarly, we don’t think about personal or property damage due to fire because it isn’t a source of heat

In this video I demonstrate how to couple Lasers into Fiber Optic cable quickly and easily using a fiber visual fault locator, some mirrors and some DIY fiber collimators.
I also couple light into Multimode and Singlemode fiber, and demonstrate what happens when you exceed a fiber’s bend-radius.
Fiber optics is far more interesting than just telecoms, there a variety of unusual applications including high voltage sensing , temperature measurement and more!

I have a couple of way interesting projects in the pipeline exploring cool stff with fiber optics, so subscribe!

0:00 Intro
0:08 Fiber optic cables
2:06 Fiber Colimator
3:14 Coupling Light DIY Fiber couplers and Collimators
5:54 Visual Fault Locator
7:51 Coupling a Laser into a Fiber Optic
11:55 Coupling into single mode cable
13:00 Fiber Bend Radius
13:46 Outro and credits

It’s a rare person who can pick up a cheap laser pointer and not wield it like a lightsaber or a phaser, complete with sound effects. There’s just something about the “pew-pew” factor that makes projecting a laser beam fun, even if it’s not the safest thing to do, or the most efficient way to the light from one place to another.

We suspect that [Les Wright] has pew-pewed his way through more than a few laser projects in his lab, including his latest experiments with fiber coupling of lasers.

Watch a quick demo showing how to use MetraAV’s fiber termination tools to terminate a fiber cable. This includes an additional “how-to” on terminating multi-strand fiber. These cost-effective tools will make fiber termination affordable and easy!

This vedio shows under a microscope that how does the splicing machine works, first clean the both sides of the cutting edge, then position the joint carefully, finally melt the fiber two side together by proper current.