Silver halide fiber fusion splicing

In this study, we demonstrated a robust splicing technique to join single-layer silver halide fibers using a custom-made splicer. Utilizing CO2 laser (λ = 10.6 μm), splice loss was measured to be less than 20% per splice point, which is 10% better than just butt-coupling. The tensile strength of the splice was assessed to be more than 50 MPa.