The Light Brigade has announced its newest menu-based DVD, “Fiber Optic System Design,” which demonstrates how to design a fiber-optic transmission system to suit current and future requirements. The DVD content focuses on issues critical when designing local, metropolitan, and wide-area networks, including physical layout, component integration, and calculating loss budgets.
The DVD’s individual chapters discuss myriad design processes, from simple point-to-point networks to more advanced DWDM, ROADM, and FTTH/FTTB systems. Special focus is given to the factors that can degrade signal quality, including attenuation, dispersion (for single-mode fibers), and bandwidth (for multimode fibers). New technologies for 100 Gbps systems are discussed, and challenges and examples are provided for various applications.
The chapters include:
- The design process
- Transmission systems
- Multimode bandwidth
- Multimode loss budgets
- Singlemode dispersion
- Singlemode loss budgets
- WDM systems
- ROADMs
- FTTH
- System integration
Bonus materials provided on the DVD include a student quiz, with matching instructor version, written in Microsoft Word format to allow for customization.
