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Troubleshooting optical-fiber networks : understanding and using your optical time-domain reflectometer /

This book 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 o...

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Main Authors: Anderson, Duwayne R
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Johnson, Larry, Ph. D; Bell, Florian G; Anderson, Duwayne R.
Published: Elsevier Academic Press,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; Boston :
Publication Dates: 2004.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Second edition.
Subjects:
Optical fibers > Testing
Time-domain reflectometry
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Imaging Systems
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780120586615
Summary: This book 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 ent
Item Description: Revised edition of: Optical time-domain reflectometry. 1997.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvi, 437 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 1417537205
9781417537204
159278304X
9781592783045
9780120586615
0120586614
0080492363
9780080492360
Index Number: TA1800
CLC: TN25
Contents: 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.

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