During precision fiber optic cable installation, technicians utilize automated fusion splicers to join individual glass optical fibers. Prior to splicing, the protective outer acrylate coating is stripped using mechanical stripping pliers, exposing the bare 125-micrometer glass cladding. Technicians then clean the bare fiber with high-purity isopropyl alcohol before placing it into a high-precision optical cleaver. The cleaver produces a flat, perpendicular end face at an angle of less than one degree. Once properly cleaved, the fiber ends are placed into the fusion splicer's V-grooves, where an electric arc melts and fuses the glass cores together.
According to the passage, what tool is used to remove the protective outer acrylate coating from the optical fiber?
- AA high-precision optical cleaver
- Mechanical stripping pliersCevap
- CThermal wire strippers
- DFusion splicer V-grooves