Optical fiber ribbon torsion measuring device and measuring method
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of optical fiber ribbon testing, in particular to an optical fiber ribbon torsion measuring device and a measuring method.
Background
Under the guidance of the construction of novel infrastructures represented by information communication facilities such as 5G, industrial internet, internet of things and the like, the high-quality development of digital economy drives the social digitization and the informatization level to be continuously deepened, and the digitization applications such as industrial production, internet of vehicles, remote medical treatment and the like put higher and higher demands on the performances such as bandwidth, time delay and the like of the information communication network. The optical fiber ribbon is a basic element for constructing an information communication network, and the improvement of network performance requirements also puts more requirements on the deployment of the optical fiber ribbon.
Optical fiber ribbons laid in current communication networks can be divided into two structural forms: discrete optical fiber ribbons and optical fiber ribbons. The discrete optical fiber ribbons mean that each optical fiber ribbon is independent from each other and is dispersedly placed in the optical cable; the optical fiber ribbon is a thin flat ribbon formed by parallelly arranging discrete optical fiber ribbons and curing the discrete optical fiber ribbons by ultraviolet irradiation, and the optical fiber ribbons can be divided into 2-core ribbons, 4-core ribbons, 6-core ribbons, 12-core ribbons and the like according to different quantities of the cured optical fiber ribbons. Compared with a discrete optical fiber ribbon structure, the optical fiber ribbon enables the organization of the optical fiber ribbon to be more compact, the density of the optical fiber ribbon is easy to promote, and the optical fiber ribbon has great advantages in the aspects of promoting the number of optical fiber cores and optimizing the outer diameter of the optical fiber. Under the condition that the current urban pipeline resources are in shortage, more optical cables can be laid in a unit pipeline space by adopting the optical fiber ribbon optical cables, and the utilization rate of the pipeline resources is effectively improved. Fiber optic ribbon cables have become an effective solution to increase metropolitan network broadband capacity.
Due to the structure of the optical fiber ribbon, the optical fiber ribbon usually has a certain torsion phenomenon, when the optical fiber ribbon is influenced by changes of conditions such as environmental temperature, the torsion degree of the optical fiber ribbon can be increased, the mechanical and optical performances of the optical fiber ribbon are further influenced, and the quality of a circuit is deteriorated, so that a residual torsion degree test of the optical fiber ribbon is necessary, and the optical fiber ribbon is ensured not to be excessively twisted to cause performance degradation after being aged in the environment.
The current method for measuring the residual twist of Optical fibers is mainly carried out according to a method G8 in IEC60794-1-23< Optical fiber cables-Part 1-23: general specification-Basic Optical Cable test procedures-Cable element test methods >, and the brief steps are as follows: the optical fiber ribbon with the length of 50cm is vertically fixed, a load of 100g is clamped at the lower end of the optical fiber ribbon, the optical fiber ribbon is manually adjusted to be vertically stable, then the optical fiber ribbon is released to be naturally twisted, the angle index clamped on the optical fiber ribbon is stably used by a pointer to test the rotation angle, and the residual twist degree is calculated by combining the angle and the length of the optical fiber ribbon.
In the test apparatus given in the standard, since the weight of the angle measuring finger is not taken into consideration, the load actually applied to the optical fiber ribbon is more than 100g, and thus a certain deviation is caused in the test result. In the test device described in the patent literature that can be inquired in China at present, the angle measurement is carried out by adopting a mode that a light source irradiates an optical fiber ribbon, and the method has certain defects: 1) whether the optical fiber ribbon is in a vertical suspension state or not is difficult to determine, and when the optical fiber ribbon does not reach the vertical state, the projection of the optical fiber ribbon irradiated by a light source deviates from the center of the circle of the dial disc; 2) when the optical fiber ribbon rotates, the projection of the optical fiber ribbon irradiated by a light source can be widened, which brings certain difficulty to angle reading; 3) the rotation angle of the optical fiber ribbon is measured at the position where the optical fiber ribbon projects thinnest, and certain uncertainty exists in the judgment of the thinnest projection position. The three disadvantages mentioned above all bring about different degrees of errors in the measurement results.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the present invention has been developed to provide a solution that overcomes, or at least partially solves, the above-mentioned problems. Accordingly, in one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fiber optic ribbon twist measuring device, comprising: the integrated optical fiber ribbon tester comprises an integrated body with preset weight, a beam, a support column and a base with an angle dial, wherein the integrated body comprises a load, a pointer and a first clamp, the load is arranged above the center of the pointer, the first clamp is arranged above the load, and the integrated body is hung at the lower end of an optical fiber ribbon to be tested through the first clamp; one end of the beam is fixed on the support column, and the other end of the beam is provided with a second clamp which is used for clamping the upper end of the optical fiber ribbon to be tested; the supporting column is connected with the base and the cross beam; the distance between the bottom surface of the beam and the upper surface of the base is determined according to the length of the optical fiber ribbon to be measured.
Optionally, the center of gravity of the integrated body is on the same vertical line with the center of the clamp position of the first clamp.
Optionally, the integrated body is clamped at the lower end of the optical fiber ribbon to be tested through a first clamp, is close to the angle dial and does not contact with the angle dial.
Optionally, the clamping portion of the second clamp has a horizontal line.
Optionally, the angle dial has a center marking point, and the center marking point and the center point of the clamping part of the second clamp are on the same vertical line.
The invention also provides a measuring method based on the optical fiber ribbon torsion measuring device, which comprises the following steps:
clamping one end of the cable to be tested on a second clamp, and adjusting the position of the cable to be tested clamped by the second clamp so as to enable the cross section of the cable to be tested to be parallel to the horizontal plane;
clamping the other end of the cable to be tested on the first clamp, and adjusting the position of the cable to be tested clamped by the second clamp so as to align the gravity center position of the integrated body with the gravity center position of the angle dial;
adjusting the pointer to a 0-degree position, and then enabling the optical fiber ribbon to rotate freely;
after the rotation is stopped, reading the rotation angle according to the position of the pointer;
and calculating the residual torsion according to the rotation angle and the length of the optical fiber ribbon to be measured.
The technical scheme provided in the embodiment of the application at least has the following technical effects or advantages: the integrated optical fiber ribbon device has the advantages that the integrated body is designed, the load can be accurately measured according to the standard requirement, the reading is directly carried out through the pointer, and the accurate reading of the angle can be realized.
The above description is only an overview of the technical solutions of the present invention, and the embodiments of the present invention are described below in order to make the technical means of the present invention more clearly understood and to make the technical solutions of the present invention and the objects, features, and advantages thereof more clearly understandable.
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Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Also, like reference numerals are used to refer to like parts throughout the drawings. In the drawings:
fig. 1 is an overall structural view showing a twist measuring apparatus for an optical fiber ribbon according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of the integrated body;
fig. 3 is another overall structural view of the optical fiber ribbon twist measuring apparatus according to the present invention.
Detailed Description
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While exemplary embodiments of the invention are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the invention can be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art.
The present invention provides an aspect of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1, to provide an optical fiber ribbon twist measuring apparatus, including: a manifold 1 of a predetermined weight, a cross member 2, a support column 3, a base 4 with an angle dial 5, wherein, as shown in fig. 2, the manifold comprises a load 11, a pointer 12, a first clamp 13; one end of the cross beam is fixed on the support column, and the other end of the cross beam is provided with a second clamp 21; the supporting column 3 is connected with the base 4 and the cross beam 2; the distance between the bottom surface of the beam 2 and the upper surface of the base 4 is determined according to the length of the optical fiber ribbon to be measured.
In the scheme provided by the invention, the scale pointer is adopted, and the load, the pointer and the clamp are innovatively integrated, so that the integrated weight is the weight of the load specified by the standard, such as 100 g.
On the structural design of integrated device, the weight of accurate regulation scale pointer, load makes its focus be located central authorities, the focus of integrated body and the anchor clamps position center of first anchor clamps are on same vertical line to guarantee that the integrated body gives the optical fiber ribbon and a perpendicular decurrent power of awaiting measuring, do benefit to the optical fiber ribbon and be in vertical state before rotatory, the central positioning of cooperation angle calibrated scale can avoid because the measuring error that the skew brought.
As shown in fig. 2, the integrated body includes a load 11, a pointer 12, a first clamp 13; the load 11 is arranged at the upper center position of the pointer 12, the first clamp 13 is arranged at the upper center position of the load, and the overall gravity center of the load 11, the pointer 12 and the first clamp 13 is ensured to be on a vertical line with the center of the pointer.
In order to accurately read the angle of the dial scale pointed by the pointer, the integrated body is clamped at the lower end of the optical fiber ribbon to be tested by the first clamp, and the integrated body is close to the angle dial scale as possible but is not contacted.
One embodiment of the second clamp is shown in fig. 3. The position of the second clamp 21 on the beam is adjusted, so that the center of the clamping position of the second clamp 21 is aligned with the angle dial, the optical fiber ribbon can be ensured to be in a vertical state before rotation, and the measurement error caused by deviation is further avoided.
The optical fiber laid in the communication network has two structural forms, namely discrete optical fiber ribbons and optical fiber ribbons, wherein the discrete optical fiber ribbons mean that each optical fiber ribbon is independent from each other and is dispersedly placed in the optical cable; the optical fiber ribbon is a thin flat ribbon formed by parallelly arranging discrete optical fiber ribbons and curing the discrete optical fiber ribbons by ultraviolet irradiation, and the optical fiber ribbons can be divided into 2-core ribbons, 4-core ribbons, 6-core ribbons, 12-core ribbons and the like according to different quantities of the cured optical fiber ribbons. The device for measuring the twist degree of the optical fiber ribbon is not only suitable for the discrete optical fiber ribbon, but also suitable for the optical fiber ribbon. The second clamp needs the middle position of the side surface of the optical fiber ribbon or the optical fiber ribbon to be tested when clamping the optical fiber ribbon or the optical fiber ribbon to be tested. In a preferred embodiment, the clamping portion of the second clamp has a horizontal line for aligning the horizontal lines on the side of the ribbon to ensure that the ribbon is in a vertical position.
After the optical fiber ribbon is clamped by the second clamp, the integrated body is clamped at the lower end of the optical fiber ribbon to be tested or the optical fiber ribbon, and as a preferred embodiment, the second clamp is provided with a horizontal line for aligning the horizontal line on the side surface of the optical fiber ribbon so as to ensure that the gravity center of the integrated body is in the vertical direction of the optical fiber ribbon or the optical fiber ribbon.
The angle dial is provided with a central marking point which is on the same vertical line with the central point of the clamping part of the second clamp.
The invention also provides a measuring method based on the optical fiber ribbon torsion measuring device, which comprises the following steps:
clamping one end of the cable to be tested on a second clamp, and adjusting the position of the cable to be tested clamped by the second clamp so as to enable the cross section of the cable to be tested to be parallel to the horizontal plane;
clamping the other end of the cable to be tested on the first clamp, and adjusting the position of the cable to be tested clamped by the second clamp so as to align the gravity center position of the integrated body with the gravity center position of the angle dial;
adjusting the pointer to a 0-degree position, and then enabling the optical fiber ribbon to rotate freely;
after the rotation is stopped, reading the rotation angle according to the position of the pointer;
and calculating the residual torsion according to the rotation angle and the length of the optical fiber ribbon to be measured.
The technical scheme provided in the embodiment of the application at least has the following technical effects or advantages: the integrated optical fiber ribbon device has the advantages that the integrated body is designed, the load can be accurately measured according to the standard requirement, the reading is directly carried out through the pointer, and the accurate reading of the angle can be realized.
In the description provided herein, numerous specific details are set forth. It is understood, however, that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known methods, structures and techniques have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure an understanding of this description.
Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the foregoing description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, various features of the invention are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or description thereof for the purpose of streamlining the invention and aiding in the understanding of one or more of the various inventive aspects. However, the disclosed method should not be interpreted as reflecting an intention that: that the invention as claimed requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive aspects lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment. Thus, the claims following the detailed description are hereby expressly incorporated into this detailed description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment of this invention.
It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that those skilled in the art will be able to design alternative embodiments without departing from the scope of the appended claims. In the claims, any reference signs placed between parentheses shall not be construed as limiting the claim.