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

Design & Manufacturing

Lab testing tools must provide reliable performance across a variety of applications. They can include OTDRs, BERT sets, optical spectrum analyzers, light sources, optical switches, and more. On the manufacturing floor, test equipment helps technicians make pass/fail decisions.

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The Lightwave Channel
Dr. Bernd Nebendahl, R&D engineer at Agilent, discusses constellation analysis, a new way of measuring signals encoded in phase.
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The Lightwave Blog
An update on Lightwave ONE speakers
by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave
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
The price of propping up an industry
by Roy Rubenstein
Editor
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Skype’s planned initial public offering doesn’t directly call to mind the travails of the optical component industry. But the hope of raising...
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Design & Manufacturing Product Showcase
Functional Modular Platform
FMP – 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.
Fiber Optic Catalog
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
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.
Optical Signal Noise Ratio Generator
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
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
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
Fiber Optic OTDRs
Sponsor: Fiber Instrument Sales, Inc.
FIS OTDRs
EXFO OTDRs
Anritsu OTDRs
Parallell High Speed Testing
Parallel High Speed Testing for Nx10Gb/s and Nx4.25 Gb/s
Sponsor: Luceo Technologies
Configure your test solution the way it is required.Ask for a demonstration now at 301-829-9306
40G Testing
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.