Funny things in fibre!
Stuart was doing a fibre job today and emailed me this picture that he took on his 'phone. What you can see is the view down the microscope as seen by the little video camera we have as part of our Tritec fusion splicer - the fibre on the left is a normal 62.5 micron core from a piece of loose tube cable, cleaved and ready for the laser. On the right is a pig-tail end that Stuart said "was hard to prepare"(!) - quite a gross manufacturing fault, me thinks! I shall take this up with our supplier.