Fiber optic testing involves a variety of equipment and applies to myriad applications.

Test & Measurement

Fiber optic testing involves a variety of equipment and applies to myriad applications. OTDRs, BERT sets, optical spectrum analyzers, power meters, light sources, and other instruments are common tools of the fiber optic testing trade. You’ll find fiber optic testing news, products, and application information here.

Test & Measurement News & Products
The Lightwave Channel
Dr. Bernd Nebendahl, R&D engineer at Agilent, discusses constellation analysis, a new way of measuring signals encoded in phase.
The Lightwave Blog
Yeah, we've got a lot of big names from the vendor community on the speaker roster for Lightwave's Optical Networks for Enterprises Conference (Lightwave...
Roy Rubenstein
Skype’s planned initial public offering doesn’t directly call to mind the travails of the optical component industry. But the hope of raising...
Test & Measurement Product Showcase
Sponsor: Lightel Technologies Inc.
ConnectorView Plus is the first Pass/Fail analytical software designed for use in the field. Fast, easy-to-use and accurate, it provides a captured image and an objective report of connector endface contamination. For use with any Lightel video microscope.
Sponsor: >New Ridge Technologies, LLC
New PMD Source for next generation 40 and 100 Gb/s modulation systems. More DGD and SOPMD while maintaining a wide bandwidth for high bit-rate systems. Patented coherent PMD generation Technology. Most advanced system PMD tolerance testing tool available.

  • 96 ps DGD-max
  • 2880 ps2 SOPMD-max
  • 83 GHz FSR
  • Covers 30 ps mean PMD fiber

Sponsor: Optametra, LLC
Real-time burst-mode constellation diagram display with simultaneous measurement of many modulation formats; includes constellation, phase diagram, and eye-diagram display, Poincaré sphere, and bit-error detection. Bit rates up to and exceeding 112 Gb/s (100G DP-QPSK) can be analyzed, capable of 128 Gb/s.
Sponsor: New Ridge Technologies, LLC
NRT-2500 performance stands alone among polarization control devices and development platforms. The network proven technologies and control algorithm make it the perfect platform upon which to develop and implement very fast and very reliable polarization tracking and control applications such as:

  • Polarization demultiplexing of DP-QPSK signals,
  • PMD compensation,
  • Coherent detection, and
  • General lab applications

Functional Modular Platform
Sponsor: JGR Services
The JGR Services FMP offers unprecedented flexibility for network testing. The FMP platform can accommodate up to 8 high-level applications-based modular instruments and offers Ethernet communication to streamline the testing interface.
Sponsor: Luceo Technologies
The Parallex™ System performs all the functions for 10G Optical receiver Sensitivity in one easy to use Platform. Call 301-514-6464 for a demo today!
Programable Pattern Generator
Sponsor: Piosecond Pulse Labs
The Picosecond Pulse Labs Model 12050 provides a unique combination of performance, flexibility, and price. The 12050 features programmable amplitude, offset, patterns (PRBS, user data), and data rate. The differential output utilizes a custom designed DC coupled limiting amplifier that generates very high-quality, low jitter eye diagrams.
Fiber Optic Catalog
Sponsor: Fiber Instrument Sales, Inc.
FIS offers one of the largest inventories of fiber optic products in the world
SX8/SXM Fiberoptic Switches
Sponsor: JGR Services
The JGR Services SX8 and SXM fiberoptic switches offer unique configuration and channel count options. The SX8 may be configured with up to 4 × 360 channels and the matrix SXM to 64 × 64 channels.
Sponsor: YY Labs, Inc.
The OSNR Generator generates a variable optical noise ratio for DQPSK or other fiber optical applications. It includes an ASE source, a narrow-band tunable filter, an EDFA, and GPIB/USB interface.
OWM Series 2
Sponsor: Digital Lightwave
Digital Lightwave’s OWM Series 2 is an optical layer monitoring system to detect, locate, and isolate faults in the optical network, and ideal for DWDM long haul and metropolitan area network applications.
MBR5 Multi-OUtput Backreflection Meter
Sponsor: JGR Services
Standard singlemode coupler/splitters are used to either combine two or more signals into one or split one signal into multiple paths. They are equipment requirements.
Fiber Optic OTDRs
Sponsor: Fiber Instrument Sales, Inc.
FIS OTDRs
EXFO OTDRs
Anritsu OTDRs
40G Testing
Sponsor: Digital Lightwave
Choose either NIC 40G (smallest/lightest 40/43G tester) or fully featured SONET/SDH from 51M- 40G, OTN, VCAT, LCAS, GFP, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, PDH/T-Carrier – all in a single chassis.
Parallell High Speed Testing
Sponsor: Luceo Technologies
Configure your test solution the way it is required.Ask for a demonstration now at 301-829-9306