[Solid_ec] Fiber Connectors and Fusion

[Zhihong Ye]

Dear all,

I talked with several experts in the detector group this morning about 
my Scintillating Fiber Tracker project, and we happened to discuss about 
the connector between the fibers. There are two useful things I learned 
from them and I would like to share with you:

1, Connector: The 1-on-1 connectors will be much cheaper if we buy from 
a Chinese manufacturer. It costs less than $0.70 for each channel and 
the company can provide free samples for us for testing. I have the 
contact information if you want to talk with this company.

2, Fusion: If we care about the light-lose, fusion will be a much better 
choice (0.6db loss compared with >3db loss when using the connector). 
The JLab Laser Injector Group actually just bought a second-handed 
portable laser fuser for around $15k. We might want to bring some fibers 
and use this fuser to test the performance. The guy who holds this 
machine is John Hansknecht.

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Best Regards
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Zhihong Ye
Physics Department, Duke University
Office:  CEBAF Center F320, Jefferson Lab
Phone:   757-269-6122
Address: 12000 Jefferson Ave, 12H/F320, Newport News, VA 23606