Splicing systems added to laser product offering

24th January 2017

Alice Matthews

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Fujikura Europe has announced the addition of the LAZERMaster LZM-110 series – a suite of splicing and glass processing systems that uses a CO₂ laser heat source to perform splicing, tapering, and lensing – to its product offering.

The entire suite of the LZM-110 series – which was created by sister company AFL – includes the LZM-100M, LZM-110P, LZM-110M+ and LZM-110P+ and is designed to address more specific production applications while reducing features that are not required. It also includes an extensive library of applications which are transferable between the LZM and FSM family.

“Combining Fujikura’s 30+ year history of splicing knowledge with AFL’s extensive history of laser processing has allowed AFL to create the latest and most powerful solutions for multiple specific applications,” said Neil Bessant at Fujikura Europe. “We are very excited to now be able to offer this fantastic suite of products to our customers in Europe.”

The LZM-110 series works in conjunction with on-board firmware for fully automatic splicing, tapering and other glass shaping processes. Through CO₂heating, contamination induced by the heating source is eliminated and the glass is heated through absorption of CO₂laser photons, providing the cleanest heating source available. This substantially reduces maintenance and calibration requirements, meaning there is no need for process gas or vacuum systems.

Each of the new processing systems provide unique advantages to the splicing and glass processing market. The LZM-110M/M+ is useful for high reliability factory splicing in the medical or fibre laser market, with the added benefit of an increased fibre handling capacity up to 2.3mm, while the LZM-110P/P+ has fibre rotation and end view (the latter in LZM-110P+ only) and is suitable for applications such as end capping or large ball lensing.