A Study on the Effect of the Contact Point and the Contact Force of a Glass Fiber under End-Face Polishing Process

Table 1

Repeatability between the two-point and angular bisector methods.

		Diameter of optical fiber; (pixel)	Distance between optical fiber and lapping film; (pixel)	Distance between fiber image and lapping film; (pixel)
Two-point method	Average	164.70	31.14	29.78
	Standard deviation	1.59	2.21	3.40
	Variation ratio	0.96%	7.11%	11.43%
Angular bisector method	Average	156.01	23.06	23.06
	Standard deviation	0.49	0.39	0.39
	Variation ratio	0.31%	1.70%	1.70%