Types of Optical Fiber Dispersion and Compensation Strategies

What Is Optical Fiber Dispersion? Optical fiber dispersion describes the process of how an input signal broadens/spreads out as it propagates/travels down the fiber. Normally, dispersion in fiber optic cable includes modal dispersion, chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion. Modal Dispersion Modal dispersion is a distortion mechanism occurring in multimode fibers and [...]

10G Ethernet Cabling Solutions

10G Ethernet Cabling Solutions The dramatic growth in business data throughput has led to increased demand and use for high-performing interconnects, storage devices and servers. The result is an increased expansion of higher speed Ethernet solutions, specifically 10 Gigabit Ethernet. This article explains what 10G Ethernet is in detail and [...]

3Tests That Matter to Fiber Patch Cable Quality

Fiber Patch Cable Quality To provide customers with high-quality fiber patch cables, manufacturers carry out a series of tests during the designing and manufacturing process. These optical fiber tests are critical for nearly every type of fiber network. It is necessary for not only vendors but also end users to [...]

?What Is Fiber Optic Cable

What Is Fiber Optic Cable A fiber optic cable is a network cable that contains strands of glass fibers inside an insulated casing. They’re designed for long-distance, high-performance data networking, and telecommunications. Compared to wired cables, fiber optic cables provide higher bandwidth and transmit data over longer distances. Fiber optic cables support much [...]

Duct Installation of Fiber Optic Cable

Duct Installation of Fiber Optic Cable Fiber optic cable is usually (but not always) installed in an innerduct that provides mechanical protection for the fiber optic cable. Generally, the duct is available in plastic, concrete, steel, iron and so on. As fiber optic cable is sensitive to excessive pulling, bending [...]

Tight-Buffered Cable vs. Loose-Tube Gel-Filled Cable

Tight-Buffered vs. Loose-Tube  Tight-buffered cable and loose-tube cable are both fiber optic cables that consist of multiple fiber counts inside a single line of fiber cable, for the sake of better protection and cabling. There are some similarities in their designed purpose, but differences are obviously more than similarities between [...]

Single Mode Fiber vs Multimode

Single Mode Fiber vs Multimode Although single mode fiber (SMF) and multimode fiber cable (MMF) are widely used in diverse applications, the problem about differences between single mode fiber and multimode fiber is still confusing. Therefore, the following article will focus on the basic construction, fiber distance, cost, fiber color, [...]

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What Is Fiber Optics

?What Is Fiber Optics Fiber optics is the technology used to transmit information as pulses of light through strands of fiber made of glass or plastic over long distances. Optical fibers are about the diameter of a strand of human hair and when bundled into a fiber-optic cable, they’re capable [...]