摘要 |
A workstation (10) for manufacturing an optical fiber device comprising a fiber magazine (12), a plurality of fiber cassettes (14) within the magazine (12), the cassettes (14) including alignment members (28) and optical fiber (18) in which the device is to be manufactured, alignment members (66) corresponding to the alignment members (28) of the cassettes (14), and assemblies (16) for processing the fiber (18) in the cassettes (14). The present invention is also directed to a corresponding process including fixing a plurality of optical fibers (18) within a corresponding plurality of cassettes (14), ganging the plurality of cassettes (14) into a magazine (12), aligning a plurality of optical fibers (18) with a corresponding plurality of processing assemblies (16), engaging the fibers (18) with the assemblies (16), processing the fibers (18), and disengaging the fibers (18) from the assemblies (16). |