Technical data

Which Cleaning Procedure should I use ? 5

Cleaning Procedures 25

Which cleaning procedure do I use for this

optical device?

The chart below will allow you to select the appropriate clean-

ing method for your optical device. Each cleaning method con-

tains cleaning guidelines according to the device

charactersistics. In addition, the risks of each cleaning method

are clearly outlined, along with suggested alternatives.

Where products have similar names, a wildcard * is used. So,

81000*I refers to 81000AI, 81000F!, 81000GI, and so on.

References

Procedure A: How to clean connectors, on page 29

Procedure B: How to clean optical head adapters, on page 31

Procedure C: How to clean connector interfaces, on page 32

Procedure D: How to clean bare fiber adapters and instruments

with an optical glass plate, on page 33

Procedure E: How to clean lenses and instruments with an

optical glass plate, on page 34

Procedure F: How to clean instruments with a fixed connector

interface, on page 36

Procedure G: How to clean instruments with a physical contact

interface, on page 37

Procedure H: How to clean instruments with a recessed lens

interface, on page 39

Procedure I: How to clean optical devices which are sensitive

to mechanical stress and pressure, on page 40

Procedure J: How to clean metal filters or attenuator gratings,

on page 41

Agilent Product Device Name Procedure

81000*A Screwed head adapters

(old version)

G-(RA)

Bare fiber adapters: D -BA and CA

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