A technician uses a fusion splicer and the splice loss reads 0.35 dB, which exceeds the acceptable limit of 0.1 dB. What is the most likely cause?
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A
The splicer's arc current is too low
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B
Contaminated or improperly cleaved fiber end faces
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C
The fiber is too long for fusion splicing
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D
The splicer is the wrong model for single-mode fiber