Patent ID: 11926553
Assignee: 3SAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC C  G | IPC C

Claim 0:
1. A self-learning fiber tapering system, comprising:
at least one processor, a computer memory, at least one heat source, at least one fiber holder, and one or more sensors; and
fiber tapering program code executable by the at least one processor to:
process received fiber parameters to define taper characteristics in the form of physical dimensions of a desired resultant fiber taper of an optical fiber;
model and store a shape of the desired resultant fiber taper based on the received fiber parameters to establish modeled data;
establish processing parameters from the received fiber parameters useful to control the at least one fiber holder and/or the at least one heat source in a tapering operation of the optical fiber to produce a resultant fiber taper;
use the one or more sensors to measure physical dimensions of the resultant fiber taper to establish measured data, the measured data including fiber diameter over a tapered length of the optical fiber;
determine differences in physical dimensions between the measured data and the modeled data; and
adjust one or more of the processing parameters to form adjusted processing parameters useful by the processor to reduce the differences in physical dimension between the modeled data and measured data of a subsequent resultant fiber taper.