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Another technique is fusion splicing, where the fibers are fused together, e.g. using an electrical arc. This leads to particularly low insertion loss and high return loss,
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Therefore, the mechanism for the alignment of the fibers is much simpler than that of single-mode fibers. The average splicing loss of 0.07 dB was reported by NTT in Japan in 1982. As mentioned above,
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