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Differentiate between fusion splice and V-groove splice.
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Sr No | Fusion Splicing | V-groove Splicing |
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1 | Fusion splicing is the method of joining two optical fiber end to end using heat | V groove align two fiber in a small glass tube with a hole just slightly larger than the outer diameter of the fiber |
2 | The source of the necessary heat is usually an electric arc | It is formed by sandwiching the butteend between a v grove glass substrate and the flat glass retainer plain |
3 | Fusion splicing does not have higher insertion loss | It has a very high insertion loss |
4 | It has a high reliability | It has a low reliability |
5 | It has a very less return losses | It has a very high returned Losses |
6 | It is used for single mode fiber product | It is used for single fiber and fiber ribbons |
7 | It is expensive | It is inexpensive |
8 | It is not a simplest method of splicing | It is simplest method of splicing. |