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Fiber Characterization Fundamentals

Delivery: Seminar

Estimated Length: 16 seat hours

Price: $1,295.00

 
Please call to enroll: 866.575.7206
 

This two-day class combines classroom lecture and hands-on testing skills to provide an understanding of the principles behind building and maintaining high speed optical networks. Key parameters such as polarization mode dispersion (PMD), chromatic dispersion (CD) and optical return loss (ORL) need to be calculated in order to evaluate system capabilities and network upgrades to higher bit rate systems.

  • Click here for current dates, locations and times; course availability is subject to change. 
  • Courses must be purchased at least two weeks in advance to avoid late fees.
  • Discounts may be available for this course, please contact NCTI Customer Care at 866.575.7206 to learn more and/or to enroll. 

Completion Time:

The estimated completion time for this course is 16 hours (two days).

Benefits:

  • Earn a Light Brigade Certification of Completion

Outline:

Introduction

The three big issues, optical units, standards committees, high-speed transmission rates, SONET optical carrier rates, time domain multiplexing systems, wavelength
dimension in WDM systems, optical fiber transmission system, four tiers of fifiber industry providers, optical network enabling technologies, optical network evolution and evolving to the all-optical network

Optical Fiber

Fiber optic system basics, lightwave transmission, fiber composition, mode field diameter, single-mode versus multimode, single-mode optical fibers, G.652 singlemode fiber, ITU-T G.652 and G.652D, pulse spreading, G.653 dispersion shifted SMF, single-mode fibers for DWDM technology, four wave mixing, G.655 nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber, ITU-T G.655, dispersion compensating fiber and fiber optic color code standard

Connectors

What to look for in a connector, typical connector roles, single-mode connector polishes, visual inspection equipment, visual safety using fiber optic sources, IEC 61300-3-35, fiber optic cleaning methods, optical return loss and the ODN, reflection testing and terminators

Components Overview

Light sources – lasers, laser spectral width, Fabry-Perot lasers, distributed feedback lasers, direct and indirect modulation, pulse chirping, signal information in a light beam, reflection causes and issues, optical isolators, tunable lasers, laser safety, photodiodes, detector types, attenuators, bit error rate, system related problems and eye diagrams

Regeneration

Repeaters, regenerators and amplifiers, factors for regenerator usage, DWDM system spans, optical amplification and roles of optical repeaters

Optical Multiplexing

Wavelength division multiplexing, fiber optic transponders, fiber optic passive devices, multiplexing basics, coarse wavelength division multiplexing, dense wavelength division multiplexing, optical demultiplexing, fiber bragg gratings, optical circulators and system loss budgets

Dispersion

Dispersion power penalties, dispersion formulas, pulse spreading, modulation, pulse compression and broadening, pulse appearances, calculating dispersion penalty and dispersion in submarine systems

Chromatic Dispersion

Components of chromatic dispersion, chromatic dispersion compensation, dispersion-compensating fiber and modules, chromatic dispersion measurement, spectral group delay in the time domain and interferometry method

Polarization

Polarization mode dispersion, birefringence in fiber, linear polarization states, controlling polarization, Polarization-dependent loss, simple PMD calculations, PMD testing and measurement methods, complete PMD fiber characterization and PMD first order limits

Test Equipment

Optical loss test sets, optical talk sets, optical time-domain reflectometers, optical reflection, extrinsic loss
and fiber tolerances, pulsewidth, OTDR signatures, fiber tolerance issues, resolving fiber versus cable length, reflection testing, measuring reflectance with a deadzone box, reflectometers, optical spectrum analyzers, multiwavelength meters, testing WDM networks, optical dispersion testing and testing 100G systems

The Future

New and future bandwidth demands, TCP/IP, 40/100G transmission, advanced technologies and trends

Dispersion Testing

Build and test an 80-km span with G.655 fiber, build and test a 50-km span with G.652 fiber, polarization mode dispersion testing, chromatic dispersion testing, test fiber spans with fiber mismatches and retest spans with dispersion compensating modules

Reflection Testing

Optical return loss, reflectance, documentation, polarization mode dispersion and chromatic dispersion

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