
Troubleshooting Optical Fiber Networks
Understanding and Using Optical Time-Domain Reflectometers
- 1st Edition - May 7, 2004
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Duwayne R. Anderson, Larry M. Johnson, Florian G. Bell
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 1 1 2 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 9 2 3 6 - 0
Troubleshooting Optical Fiber Networks offers comprehensive, state-of-the-art information about time-domain fiber-optic testing. Readers will gain an understanding of how to troubl… Read more
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Troubleshooting Optical Fiber Networks offers comprehensive, state-of-the-art information about time-domain fiber-optic testing. Readers will gain an understanding of how to troubleshoot optical-fiber networks using an optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR), while learning the fundamental principles underlying the operation of these powerful testing instruments. From basic fiber optics and fiber testing, to detailed event-analysis techniques, this book covers the entire spectrum of time-domain optical cable test theory and applications.
- Only book available focusing solely on OTDR theory and practice
- Covers the entire spectrum of time-domain optical cable test theory and applications
- Designed to be accessible to both engineers and system technicians
Fiber-optic system engineers, test technicians, and students in courses on fiber-optic networks.
Early Development, Fundamentals of Fiber Optics, Fundamentals of OTDR Operation, Performance Characteristics of OTDRs, Measuring Non-Reflective Events, Loss-Measurement Error, Measuring Reflective Events, Complications Caused by Reflective Events, Measuring the Numerical Aperture and Cut-Off Wavelength of Single-Mode Fiber, Using OTDRs to Analyze Passive Networks that Include Couplers, Automatic-Event Marking Algorithms and Calibration, Test Fixtures, Polarization Mode Dispersion, Dispersion in Optical Fibers, Considerations in Purchasing your OTDR.
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 7, 2004
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Duwayne R. Anderson
Affiliations and expertise
Tektronix, Inc.
Wilsonville, ORLJ
Larry M. Johnson
Affiliations and expertise
The Light Brigade
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