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3-Day Training – West Chester, Pennsylvania DATES: January 17-19, 2012 February 21-23, 2012 CLASS FEE: $1,495.00 |
This three-day course has been developed with 12 hours of classroom and 12 hours of hands-on skills labs to provide a strong foundation for understanding the basic principles of fiber optic technology. Beginning with a short history of the industry and major growth steps to the state of the art today.
Register Today. Class size is limited.
Topics covered include fiber construction and fabrication techniques, numerical aperture, multimode and singlemode transmission theory, intermodal and intramodal dispersion, fiber attenuation, bending losses, fiber scattering mechanisms, fiber splicing and connector termination hardware, system testing and troubleshooting.
Fiber transmission theory is supplemented with hands on training in the safe handling of fibers, removal of the buffer coating, fiber cleaving, mechanical and fusion splicing, connector termination, insertion and return loss measurements, and optical time domain reflectometry.
Instructor: Carl Durkow
Carl Durkow currently works as a Senior Optical Engineer at Microwave Photonic Systems. He graduated from Rutgers University with his Bachelor’s degree in Physics. He is a member of the Principle Professional Staff at Camden County College in Blackwood, NJ, with 26 years of fiber optic teaching experience at the college level. Carl has over 33 years of fiber optic research and development experience. Awarded 3 US patents; 2 in the fiber optics field and both are currently utilized products. He was presented the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002.
Course Objectives
- A perspective of the electromagnetic , optical and visible spectrum
- An understanding of basic optical terms and concepts
- A knowledge of the types of fibers and cables available
- An understanding of fiber optic theory and operation, including past, present and future applications as well as its advantages and disadvantages.
- An insight into the broad and diversified applications of fiber optic technology
- Hands on testing experience and the safe handling of optical cables.
Course Outline
Day One: |
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| Fiber optic technology overview | Handling optical cable |
| Benefits and applications | Removing tight buffer fiber, and primary buffer |
| Propagation and material interaction | Fiber strength testing |
| Fiber construction and fabrication | Cleaving optical fibers |
| Modes in a dielectric waveguide | Mechanical splicing techniques |
| Intermodal dispersion and fiber bandwidth | |
| Multimode and singlemode transmission | |
| Optical cable construction | |
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Day Two: |
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| Classroom: | Day Two Lab: |
| Dispersion | Fusion Splicing |
| – Chromatic | Connector termination and polishing |
| – Polarization mode dispersion | Connector inspection and cleaning |
| Spectral attenuation | Testing with a light source and optical power meter |
| Optical fiber interconnects | Power ratio testing |
| Test methodologies | |
| – Light sources and optical power meters | |
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Day Three: |
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| Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR) | Test methods for optical interconnects |
| Light sources for fiber optics | – Return loss measurements |
| Semiconductor laser diodes | – Insertion loss measurements |
| Optical detectors | – OTDR system characterization |
Register Today. Class size is limited.
