FALCON Mini Square
Expanded beam connector mini-size, Mini square with 1-4 channels. Most often used in the most narrow and tight environments and installations.
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The FALCON Mini Square is a mini-size expanded beam bulkhead receptacle, available in configurations with 1–4 channels and designed for heavy-duty applications.
This bulkhead receptacle features an extremely small installation footprint, enabling ODF integration in highly space-constrained installations. Its highperformance strain relief and boot provide the robustness required for demanding field deployments.
Compared with the Mini D-hole series, the FALCON Mini Square features a square profile with a simpler mounting pattern secured by four screws. The customer can choose whether the nuts are mounted on the inside or outside of the panel.
The connector is 5 mm lower than the Mini D-hole, giving it a smaller installation footprint and making it suitable for use on lower panels. The FALCON Mini Square is used in military command and control centers, containers, converters, and switches, and in integrated ODF enclosures across various types of defense vehicles, air-defense units, and other spaceconstrained applications.
Features
- Up to 40 Gbit/s per channel
- Advanced expanded beam technology
- Highly compact connector design
- Hermaphroditic interconnection
- 1–4 fiber channels, singlemode, multimode or mixed mode
- No adapters needed
- Low-downtime field repair
- Easy cleaning, no special tools required
Optical
| Type | Single-mode (SM), Multi-mode (MM) or mixed mode |
| Bandwidth | up to 40Gbit/s |
| Insertions loss (SM) | Typical: -0.8 dB (1,310 nm) Maximum: -1.2 dB (1,310 nm) |
| Insertion loss (MM) | Typical: -0.8 dB (1,300 nm) Maximum: -1.0 dB (1,300 nm) |
| Return loss (PDL) | > 35 dB at 1,310 nm or 1,550 nm Polarization dependent loss < 0.35 dB |
Mechanical
| Coupling type | Hermaphroditic |
| Compliant | ROHS & REACH |
| Material | Hard anodized aluminum (MIL-A-8625 TYPE III CLASS 2) |
| Optional material | Marine bronze, stainless steel or titanium |
| Color | Gray |
| Durability | 3,000 mating cycles (MIL-DTL-83526) |
| Vibration | 5-500 Hz, 0.75 mm amplitude at 10 g (IEC 68-2-6-Fc) |
| Mechanical shock | 3 x 4,000 cycles at 390 m/s2 (IEC 68-2-29-Eb) |
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Shock pulse |
11 ms, half sine at 35 g, 3 axes (x, y, z) (IEC 68-2-29-Eb) |
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Recommended wall thickness |
2-3 mm |
Environmental
| Operating temperature | -57°C to +85°C, +100°C optional |
| Ingress protection | IPX7 |
| Air pressure | < 25 kPa -55 °C during 4h (IEC 68-2-13, test M) |
| Corrosion resistance | 500h salt spray (IEC 68-2-11 ka) |
| Flammability | DOD-STD-1678, method 5010 |
Compatible with:
- Fibreco - Mini 2
- QPC Q - Micro
- Te Pro-Beam - Mini
- Telecast MX - Mini
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How to clean the expanded beam connector?
This instruction covers the cleaning procedure for the expanded beam (EB) connectors and its optical interface (mating face, optical path lenses, EB insert and alignment features). These connectors are non-contacting; therefore, mating the connector without cleaning first typically will not cause permanent damage to the optic interface.
What is an Expanded Beam Connector?
The fiber optic technology allows a large amount of data to be transferred with low insertion loss even in harsh environments, without risk of damage to the fiber. The Expanded Beam Connector is used in several harsh environments such as mining, transportation systems, outside broadcasting, offshore and subsea, and in different types of industries.
The evolution of FALCON Expanded Beam Connector
Learn more about the history behind the development of the FALCON Expanded Beam Connector, and the benefits of this high-speed quality connector. The Falcon Expanded Beam connectors have the best optical performance on the market with transfer speeds all the way up to 40 Gbit/s, compared to other brands with an average of 10 Gbit/s.
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