Know about the Working of Fiber optic splitter

Working of fiber optic splitter

Whenever in a network there is the transmission of the light beam it needs to be divided into two or more light beams and for this purpose, a fiber splitter is used.

Whenever there is the transmission of the light signal, the light energy cannot entirely concentrate in the fiber core. Through the cladding of the fiber, a small amount of energy will be spread. The transmitting light in an optical fiber can enter into another optical fiber if two fibers are close enough to each other. Therefore, you can achieve the reallocation technique of optical signals in multiple fibers.

Splitter never generates power nor do they need it. Hence, it is a passive device. Splitters do not even contain any electronic components. It is a simple device. A fiber optic splitter is also referred to as a beam splitter.

In most fiber optic networks splitters are widely used. It consists of numerous input and output terminals, which are majorly applicable to a passive optical network like GPON, BPON, FTTX, EPON, FTTH, etc.

Into two types there is a division of the fiber optic splitters: Fused Biconical Taper (FBT) splitter and PLC splitter.

The most commonly used splitters are the FBT splitters. FBT splitters are accepted everywhere and are mainly used in passive networks.

PLC Splitter

PLC refers to a planar lightwave circuit. PLC splitter makes use of an optical chip as a micro-optical device so that the input signal can be split into various outputs. At the edge of the chip, there is the presence of a light circuit in ribbon form that is mounted on a carrier and fibers. PLC splitter divides the incident light beam (input light signal) into two or more light beams (output light signal) with the use of a fiber splitter chip. As the material of the lightwave circuit PLC splitter adopts silica glass. In PLC splitter the substrate, waveguide, and lid are three basic layers. PLC splitters can be further categorized into different types for various applications which include LGX box PLC splitters, block less PLC splitters, ABS PLC splitters, tray-type PLC splitters bare PLC splitters, mini plug-in type PLC splitters, and 1U rackmount PLC splitters.