Tools, Equipment, and Materials

Optical connectors should be cleaned using recommended tools, equipment and materials.

The following provides the recommended tools, equipment and materials:

• Optical power meter

• 400X fiber microscope (A video fiber microscope is recommended.)

• CLETOP cassette cleaner shown in Figure 1

• Cleaning solvent (Isoamylol is preferred, propyl alcohol is the next, and alcohol or formalin is forbidden.)

• Non-woven lens tissue, fiber cleaning tissue, and dustfree cloth (Non-woven lens tissue is recommended.)

• Special compressed air

• Special cleaning roll

• Dustfree absorbent swab (made of medical cotton or long fiber cotton) shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3

Figure 1 CLETOP cassette cleaner

Figure 2 Dustfree absorbent swabs for cleaning the SC and FC connectors

Figure 3 Dustfree absorbent swabs for cleaning the LC connectors