Determining the quality of optical fiber splice by fusion by electric arc through spectral image processing

Abstract

This paper develops and implements, can experimental method to characterize the process of splice optical fibers by fusion for determine the quality thereof. The procedure utilizes the Bragg diffraction law, allowing spectrally decomposed emitted light in the fusion splicing process. The experimental mounting used a diffraction grating to refract light, a video camera that allows capturing the image sequences during the complete process of fusion splicing, later and with the aid of the computational tool MATLAB is performed all the segmentation process, filtering, correlation and analysis of images obtained.