A fiber pigtail is a single, short, usually tight-buffered fiber optic cable with a factory-installed connector on one end, and un-terminated fiber on the other end, making the maintenance more conveniently.

*Fiber optic pigtails are used to terminated fiber optic cables via fusion splicing or mechanical splicing as shown in the picture below.

*The end of the pigtail is stripped and fusion spliced to a single fiber or a multi-fiber trunk. Splicing of pigtails to each fiber in the trunk "breaks out" the multi-fiber cable into its component fibers for connection to the end equipment.

*High quality fiber pigtails combined with correct fusion splicing practices offer the best performance for fiber optic cable termination.

*99% of single mode applications use pigtails, but pigtails are also used in many multimode applications.

Fusion splicing is the process of fusing or welding two fibers together by an electric arc. Fusion splicing is the most widely used method of splicing as it provides for the lowest loss and least reflection, as well as providing the strongest and most reliable joint between two fibers.

Connector Types
LC Connector Pigtail
SC Connector Pigtail
ST Connector Pigtail
FC Connector Pigtail
MTRJ Connector Pigtail
MU Connector Pigtail
E2000 Connector Pigtail