TOKYO -- Furukawa Electric Co Ltd of Japan is to preview its ultimate optical fibre splicer, the S183, at next month’s ECOC (European Conference on Optical Communications) exhibition in Rimini, Italy (stand no 772, hall C5).

Furukawa has already developed the market’s fastest splicer and the world’s easiest-to-use palmtop splicer and the new S183 will be on view for the first time anywhere in world.

“The S183 is designed to address all production and research splicing needs in the optical components industry and will be formally launched later in the year,” said Furukawa’s David Jones.

“We will be previewing it to visitors to our stand, which will also feature one of the most comprehensive ranges of Furukawa fusion splicers and optical solutions we have ever put together.”

The S183 offers a total solution for precision polarization maintaining fibre splicing, high strength splicing, speciality fibre splicing and attenuation splicing – all essential processes in manufacturing the latest opto-electronic devices.

In addition to the new S183, Furukawa will be exhibiting the S121a which is the world’s smallest fusion splicer. Since making its European debut at the end of April, the S121a has achieved considerable success in the FTTx market. It is just one third the size of a regular splicer and half the cost.

Furukawa will also be showing the S176 core aligning splicer and a range of preparation tools. The fusion splicers will be networked using the new SmartFuseTM remote control software package. This powerful software system enables the user to:

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