SPLICING DEVICE FOR WELDING OPTICAL FIBRES

摘要

A splicing device for welding optical fibres in or close to optical components, in particular optical fibre plug connectors, has a first receptacle (A1) for the optical component and the corresponding first optical fibre, a receptacle that can be adjusted in the axial direction for the second optical fibre, an optical device for observing the ends of the optical fibres that need to be welded, and two mutually spaced electrodes (E). The first receptacle (A1) is mounted in such a way that it can swing around a swivelling axis (SA) parallel to axial direction (AX), so that the end of the first optical fibre in or next to the optical component may be swivelled between both electrodes. This splicing device may also be used for normal splice connections of optical fibres by using an additional optical fibre receptacle instead of the first receptacle.