Additional Cleaning Information; How To Clean Bare Fiber Ends; How To Clean Large Area Lenses And Mirrors - Agilent Technologies 8163A User Manual

Additional Cleaning Information

Preferred Procedure
Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A Lightwave Measurement System, & Agilent 8166A Lightwave
Multichannel System, Fourth Edition
2 Remove the fluid using compressed air at some distance and with low
pressure. If there are any streaks or drying stains on the surface, repeat the
whole cleaning procedure.
Additional Cleaning
Information
The following cleaning procedures may be used with other optical equipment:

• How to clean bare fiber ends

• How to clean large area lenses and mirrors

How to clean bare fiber ends
Bare fiber ends are often used for splices or, together with other optical
components, to create a parallel beam. The end of a fiber can often be scratched.
You make a new cleave. To do this:
1 Strip off the cladding.
2 Take a new soft-tissue and moisten it with isopropyl alcohol.
3 Carefully clean the bare fiber with this tissue.
4 Make your cleave and immediately insert the fiber into your bare fiber adapter
in order to protect the surface from dirt.
How to clean large area lenses and
mirrors
Some mirrors, as those from a monochromator, are very soft and sensitive.
Therefore, never touch them and do not use cleaning tools such as compressed air
or polymer film.
Some lenses have special coatings that are sensitive to solvents, grease, liquid and
mechanical abrasion. Take extra care when cleaning lenses with these coatings.
Lens assemblies consisting of several lenses are not normally sealed. Therefore,
use as little liquid as possible, as it can get between the lenses and in doing so can
change the properties of projection.
Use the following procedure on most occasions.
1 Blow away any dust or dirt with compressed air.
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