If you cut a piece of fiber optic patch cable into two parts, it becomes two pieces of fiber optic pigtails. Fiber optic pigtail is a fiber cable end with fiber optic connectors at only one side of the cable while leave the other side no connectors, so that the connector side can link to the equipment and the other side can be melted with optical cable fibers. Optical fiber pigtails are used to achieve accurate mounting for precision alignment of fiber optical components. Fiber optic pigtails are usually used with fiber optic management equipment like ODF, splice closures and cross cabinets. Usually fiber optic pigtails are 0.9mm cable diameter; because it is smaller size and fit for being put inside the fiber optic patch panel boxes or fiber optic splicing enclosures.

A fiber pigtail is a single short, usually unbuffered, optical fiber that has an optical connector on one end and a length of exposed fiber at the other end. The end of the pigtail is stripped and fusion spliced to a single fiber of a multi-fiber trunk to break out the multi-fiber cable into its component fibers for connection to the end equipment.

Pigtails can have female connectors and be mounted in a patch panel, often in pairs although single-fiber solutions exist, to allow them to be connected to endpoints or other fiber runs with patch fibers. Alternatively they can have male connectors and plug directly into an optical transceiver. We supply 10G 50/125, SingleMode 9/125, Multimode 62.5/125, Multimode 50/125 optical pigtail with SC, ST, FC, LC MT-RJ, SC/APC, FC/APC, E2000 fiber optic connectors.

Let’s introduce Ingellen’s 4 types of Fiber optic pigtail.
10G 50/125 Pigtail

10G 50/125 Fiber Pigtail, 10Gmultimode fibers are specially designed 50/125 micron fiber optimized for 850nm VCSEL laser based 10Gig Ethernet. They are backward compatible with existing network equipment and provide close to three times the bandwidth of traditional 62.5/125 multimode fibers.

SingleMode 9/125 Pigtail

SingleMode 9/125 Fiber Pigtail use 9/125 micron bulk single mode fiber cable and single mode fiber optic connectors at ends. Single mode fiber optic cable jacket color is usually yellow. Most commonly used types are SC fiber optic pigtail, ST fiber optic pigtail, FC fiber optic pigtail, LC fiber optic pigtail, MT-RJ fiber optic pigtail, SC/APC fiber optic pigtail, and FC/APC fiber optic pigtail and E2000 fiber optic pigtail.

Multimode 62.5/125 Pigtail

Multimode 62.5/125 Fiber Pigtail use 62.5/125 micron bulk multimode fiber cable and terminated with multimode fiber optic connectors at ends. Multimode fiber optic cable jacket color is usually orange. Most commonly used types are SC fiber optic pigtail, ST fiber optic pigtail, FC fiber optic pigtail, LC fiber optic pigtail, MT-RJ fiber optic pigtail, SC/APC fiber optic pigtail, and FC/APC fiber optic pigtail and E2000 fiber optic pigtail.

Multimode 50/125 Pigtail

Multimode 50/125 Fiber Pigtail use 50/125 micron bulk multimode fiber cable and terminated with multimode fiber optic connectors at ends. Multimode fiber optic cable jacket color is usually orange. Most commonly used types are SC fiber optic pigtail, ST fiber optic pigtail, FC fiber optic pigtail, LC fiber optic pigtail, MT-RJ fiber optic pigtail, SC/APC fiber optic pigtail, and FC/APC fiber optic pigtail and E2000 fiber optic pigtail.